Importing playlist fails

[Peter Jentsch]

Binary package hint: banshee

When importing a playlist with Music->Import playlist, the playlist fails in gutsy.

A look at the code reveals that the playlist parser returns escaped string-representations of uris which are matched agains unescaped absolute paths of library entries, which will always fail. consequently, the imported playlist is regarded as emply and not imported.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, can you run banshee from the command line and see if there's something throw in the command line? Which kind of playlist are you adding?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[Peter Jentsch (peter-jentsch-gmail)]

Sorry for replying so late :(

Running banshee with --debug enabled print nothing of interest as far as I can see. I'm attaching the banshee output and the playlist I'm importing.

[Peter Jentsch (peter-jentsch-gmail)]

the playlist. all files referenced in the playlist are present on the filesystem.

[Peter Jentsch (peter-jentsch-gmail)]

reopening.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Does it make a difference if you prepend each line in the m3u file with the absolute path, e.g. '/home/username/music'? I'm interested to see if absolute-path filenames work for importing.

[Peter Jentsch (peter-jentsch-gmail)]

Absolute-path filenames seem to be working. I'm attaching a relative-path, non-working example and an absolute-path, working example. I'd definitely like relative-path playlists to work, because absolute-path playlists tend to break if you move your music files to another disk (or place on the disk or whatever).

Thanks,
Peter

[Peter Jentsch (peter-jentsch-gmail)]

and here comes the working example.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Reported upstream.