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      nyuwa
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      Good evening
      Sorry for the newbie question, but ...
      I have installed Strawberry on two different computers. Both use the same collection except that in one computer it is stored in drive D:\ and on the other computer in drive E:. After that it would be a folder names "Music" with some other subfolders.
      I have saved a playlist created at home on a cloud drive and tried to "load" it on the other computer. Temporarily it says "loading list", but that soon stops and there are no recognized files.
      Do I need to copy the saved playlist file directly into some Strawberry folder? Or is there another trick to share playlists among different computers?

      Thank you
      nyuwa

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        ben2talk @nyuwa
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        @nyuwa Whenever I change my setup, I always mount drives in the same way... try changing drive E to drive D (maybe swap the names) on the other computer?

        Playlists use paths, so basically if I need to play this song, on my other computer I must mount it with the same path...

        #EXTINF:159,The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
        /mnt/T3/Music/Musicbrainz/The Mamas & The Papas/VA - My Favourite Hits of 1965 [7CD] (2016) от DON Music/1-12 California Dreamin'.flac
        
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          nyuwa @ben2talk
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          @ben2talk Changing the drive letter now would cause a lot of trouble.
          I did try to edit the playlist in a text editor, replacing for example "D:/Music" with "E:/Music" in the hope it would work. It did not.
          Even though the paths following "Music/" are the same on all computers.
          Loading a thus changed playlist does not load anything.
          Is there a trick to it?

          nyuwa

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          • ben2talkB
            ben2talk @nyuwa
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            @nyuwa I don't have a clue - I use Linux, so file paths and permissions tend to make sense. Windows lettering was cute when there was a Floppy in A:, but it's just annoying now.

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            • jonasJ
              jonas @nyuwa
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              @nyuwa
              Strawberry supports saving playlists with relative paths,
              Go to Tools / Settings / Playlist and select "Relative" or "Ask when saving" under "When saving a playlist, file paths should be".
              When you save the playlist in d:\music, the paths should then point to directories / files without d:\music.
              This way you can copy the playlist files over on the other computer to the same music directory on a different drive.
              Another option is to simply edit the playlist file in a text editor and do a find/replace of d:\ with e:\

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