Create m3u playlist

[l0oo]

Just an idea...
IMHO would be nice to have such feature in BandcampDownloader.

[Otiel]

Thanks for the suggestion.

A few questions to identify how we should implement this:

1. Should we create one m3u file per album, regardless of the download path (even if all albums are stored in the same folder)?
2. Should we create a m3u file for albums containing only one track?
3. Should we create a m3u file for track pages (thus containing only one track) as well?
4. Where should we store the m3u file in case the download path contains placeholders ({album} for instance)? In the end folder?

[l0oo]

Hello Otiel!

Thank you for answer!
IMO the best would be create m3u file inside folder where album's mp3s are stored - so one per album. Some use {artist} - {album} ({year}), some {artist}/{album} - so it is universal imho. If all albums (you mean mp3 files?) are in same folder too - this way someone can play album he wants, without picking songs manually.

2. One track album
   I think yes, as some albums are one track only, some are not complete (some have just two songs published of ten etc, anyway - numbers of tracks will be preserved in filenames thus m3u).

3. Track pages
   Well - I guess yes. As finally those file(s) land in folder and have 'artist - title'.

4. {album}
   Yup - IMHO in the end folder. As I wrote above.

BTW: There is nice small app where some problems with BOM are adressed.
http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/splaylistmaker/
IMHO OK would be .m3u, UTF-8 (with BOM) - as some titles may have exotic diacritics etc...

All this could be of course optional etc. So someone could make it according to own taste / needs / habits.

Rgrds!

[Otiel]

you mean mp3 files?

Yes that's what I meant.

Ok, I see we are on the same page, good! 👍 I'll start working on this when I find the time then.

Thanks for the link, I'll make sure "special" characters are supported as best as possible.

[Otiel]

Done in v0.2.8.0. Let me know if that's good for you.

[l0oo]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:40:55 -0700 Otiel ***@***.***> wrote: Done in <https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader/releases/tag/v0.2.8.0 Let me know if that's good for you.

Hello! Thanks for 0.2.8.1 version and all your great work! Unfortunately it is not good for me yet. ;) I am using m3u only (even non ext. in fact) (BTW: maybe others formats are OK - dunno). For better understanding, below m3us made by different apps: LP: https://asunajanjelinek.bandcamp.com/album/signals-bulletin BandcampDownloader normal m3u: Relief, pt.1.mp3 Pulsating Primary Structure.mp3 Fountain.mp3 How a spiral works.mp3 Blinking of countless lines.mp3 BandcampDownloader ext m3u: #EXTM3U #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:801,Relief, pt.1 Relief, pt.1.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:674,Pulsating Primary Structure Pulsating Primary Structure.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:250,Fountain Fountain.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:385,How a spiral works How a spiral works.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:859,Blinking of countless lines Blinking of countless lines.mp3 sPlaylistMaker: (NB my settings of this app in att., notice I set it to #EXTM3U in options, not using this feature in fact, just for compatibility maybe): #EXTM3U 01 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Relief, pt.1.mp3 02 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Pulsating Primary Structure.mp3 03 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Fountain.mp3 04 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - How a spiral works.mp3 05 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Blinking of countless lines.mp3 As you can see - tracks in m3u needs to have full names of saved mp3 files. As my naming scheme for songs is: {tracknum} {artist} - {title}.mp3 Created m3u must reproduce this scheme. :/ If not - files aren't played. BTW: for downloading folder I use {artist} - {album} ({year}) Same for {artist} - {album} ({year}).m3u (reproduce name of folder) So for this album it should look like this, in my case: #EXTM3U #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:801,Relief, pt.1 01 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Relief, pt.1.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:674,Pulsating Primary Structure 02 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Pulsating Primary Structure.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:250,Fountain 03 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Fountain.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:385,How a spiral works 04 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - How a spiral works.mp3 #EXTALB:Signals Bulletin #EXTART:ASUNA & Jan Jelinek #EXTINF:859,Blinking of countless lines 05 ASUNA & Jan Jelinek - Blinking of countless lines.mp3 PS I have another small idea... :) As I like to read blogs where good BC albums are mentioned, I have to copy its adress to clipboard, than paste to BCDownloader and press download... Could you make optional "watch for clipboard link" => when I copy BC link to clipboard it is automatically transferred to BCDownloader and than download in background... What do you think? Hope it is possible...

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-- rgrds! l0oo PS FYI my BandcampDownloader.ini DownloadsPath=D:\bc_music\{artist} - {album} ({year}) AllowedFileSizeDifference=0.05 DownloadMaxTries=7 DownloadRetryCooldown=0.2 DownloadRetryExponent=4 SaveCoverArtInFolder=true CoverArtInFolderConvertToJpg=false CoverArtInFolderResize=false CoverArtInFolderMaxSize=1000 SaveCoverArtInTags=true CoverArtInTagsConvertToJpg=true CoverArtInTagsResize=true CoverArtInTagsMaxSize=1000 DownloadOneAlbumAtATime=true RetrieveFilesSize=true CheckForUpdates=true EnableApplicationSounds=false ShowVerboseLog=false Language=en Proxy=System ProxyHttpAddress= ProxyHttpPort=0 FileNameFormat={tracknum} {artist} - {title}.mp3 ModifyTags=true TagAlbumArtist=Modify TagAlbumTitle=Modify TagArtist=Modify TagComments=DoNotModify TagLyrics=Modify TagTrackNumber=Modify TagTrackTitle=Modify TagYear=Modify DownloadArtistDiscography=false CoverArtFileNameFormat={album} CreatePlaylist=true M3uExtended=true PlaylistFormat=m3u PlaylistFileNameFormat={artist} - {album} ({year})

[Otiel]

As my naming scheme for songs is: {tracknum} {artist} - {title}.mp3
Created m3u must reproduce this scheme. :/ If not - files aren't played.

You are right. That's a bug. I'll fix this in the next version.

I have another small idea...

Let's continue the discussion for this in #85.

[Otiel]

You are right. That's a bug. I'll fix this in the next version.

It should be fixed in v0.2.8.2

[l0oo]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:01:22 -0700 Otiel ***@***.***> wrote: <<https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader/releases/tag/v0.2.8.2>0.2.8.2>https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader/releases/tag/v0.2.8.2>0.2.8.2 - Fixed the track path stored in playlist files. <<#82>#82>https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader/issues/82>#82

Thank you for fixing tracks names. Works OK. Now I have problem with diacritics and Foobar2000 (and maybe other players). Files with diacritics are missing in player when starting album from m3u playlist (only those without are present). Check please e.g: https://brzoskamarciniakmarkiewicz.bandcamp.com/album/wp-aw According to Notepad3 sPlaylistMaker create "Unicode (UTF-8) Signature" while BCD: "Unicode (UTF-8)" m3u and the 2nd brings to Foobar only those mp3s which have no diacritics. Hope it can be fixed too. Rgrds!

[Otiel]

Thanks for the example URL. I'll check it out.

[Otiel]

New try: v0.2.9.0

It should fix the issue with foreign characters. Please let me know if all is ok for you now.

[l0oo]

On Sat, 04 May 2019 03:18:05 -0700 Otiel ***@***.***> wrote: New try: <https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader/releases/tag/v0.2.9.0>v0.2.9.0 It should fix the issue with foreign characters. Please let me know if all is ok for you now.

TYVM! All is correct now!