Creation/Placement/Format of a Playlist for Twonky Server

NigelG · Post by **NigelG** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:54 pm

Apologies in advance, but I am very new and would like to know what kind of playlists Twonkymedia Server recognises? For example .m3u or .wpl? I have Twonkymedia Server 5.1 (build date 8th Sept 2009) running on a Western Digital, My Book World Edition, white light network attached storage device. In particular I would like to create video playlists. Will you please recommend a playlist format to use, where in the file system I should place the playlist and what software would you use to create/author the playlist? Can one create a playlist for photos?

Any advice will be most welcome. Thanks for your patience in answering this question of mine. I have searched but as yet have not come across helpful informtion in this regard. Thank you!

henno · Post by **henno** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:17 am

and the answer is??

phibertron · Post by **phibertron** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:05 pm

I know that it is usually best, to place playlists in the root of each media folder
Also, I know ther both m3u and wpl types work
As far as what to use to create them, good question, is there one answer, nope

I use windows media player to create playlists for music, or by hand

This one is for Music

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<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Type" content="M"/>
<title>Music Playlist</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="D:\shares\Music\song1.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\shares\Music\song2.mp3"/>
<media src="D:\shares\Music\song3.mp3"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>

But for photo and video, I creae .wpl playlists by hand like this

This one is for Photo

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<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Type" content="P"/>
<title>Photo Playlist</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="D:\shares\Photos\photo1.jpg"/>
<media src="D:\shares\Photos\photo2.jpg"/>
<media src="D:\shares\Photos\photo3.jpg"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>

This one is for Video

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<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<meta name="Type" content="V"/>
<title>video Playlist</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="D:\shares\Videos\movie1.mp4"/>
<media src="D:\shares\Videos\movie2.mp4"/>
<media src="D:\shares\Videos\movie3.mp4"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>

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