My m3u playlist is not working. Help

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I followed the Roon instructions for exporting and importing m3u playlists. But not working.

Here is an example of a line in the m3u, and the actual path. My NAS is called TOWER.
m3u line: …/Little Feat/Sailin’ Shoes/1-05 Willin’.flac (edit: has only 2 leading dots, not 3)
actual file path: \TOWER\music\D - L\L\Little Feat\Little Feat - Sailin’ Shoes\5 Willin’.flac

I don’t know:

  • if / or \ makes a difference.
  • if “1-0” in the m3u line makes a problem. The Roon export must have created it.

I started with my core on my Desktop PC and music on a NAS (Unraid) at NAS\music\main.
Then I exported the playlist to m3u.
Then I moved my core from desktop to the NAS. For reasons, I let the core start from scratch without doing any restore.
Then I moved all my music (and the Roon storage location) from NAS//music/main to NAS//music, and let the library rebuild.
Then I put the m3u file into the watched folder, NAS//music, and followed the Roon instructions to import m3u. But it does not work.

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Sounds like you did not use the exported music files but the original ones, so the result is somehow expected. You can use a text editor of your choice to correct the paths in your m3u files.

Note: Roon creates folder and file names for exported music. It also enriches (or overwrites) metadata in the files with it’s own.

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Yes, the export did create copies of music files and put them into folders it created… So I guess roon can export a playlist that works for only that. And does not work for the folder structure that it used in the first place.
If it could create a playlist with the full path, that would be nice and much easier to edit.