Make Winamp work for me

October 27, 2006 5:13 PM

Winamp playlist help. I have a bunch of playlists in Winamp, but frequent re-organization of my music directory has broken all the links. Is there a way for Winamp to find the new locations of the files so I don't have to re-assign hundreds of songs, or, barring that, is there a smarter music library program that will do the work and can import Winamp playlists?
posted by anonymous to Technology (3 answers total)

You should use the media library instead of playlists. Once you set it up (how many times to scan a week, folders where the music is, etc) It's like a giant searchable playlist.
posted by psychobum at 6:04 PM on October 27, 2006

f a saved playlist gets corrupted, you can edit the .pls file itself with a text editor and do a find/replace to change the relevant portion of the path. I use the smart playlist function to generate playlists from my library, and then filter to select particular tracks.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 10:12 PM on October 27, 2006

Install the Dynamic Library plugin - it's the only way I've found. You still have to do a fair bit of work, but you'll be able to repair everything eventually.
posted by einekleine at 7:25 PM on October 28, 2006