M3U playlist with Path Substitution

[marcozd]

Hello all.

I installed a large hard drive in my xbox and copied all of my music files to:

G:\Music

I would like to use the playlist files that I have on my computer, running windows vista. A sample of one of my m3u playlists looks like this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:287,Brown, Greg - Joy Tears
\Users\Marco\Music\Brown, Greg\Evening Call, The\Brown, Greg - Joy Tears.mp3
#EXTINF:227,Petty, Tom - Saving Grace
\Users\Marco\Music\Petty, Tom\Highway Companion\Petty, Tom - Saving Grace.mp3


I have created an "advancedsettings.xml" file in the User Data folder of XBMC that looks like this:

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>\Users\Marco\Music\</from>
<to>G:\Music\</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

Even after doing this, it is not working. Can someone point me in the right direction or suggest something to try.

Also, do I have to enable XBMC to read the "advancedsettings.xml" or does it
do it by itself?

Thanks in advance.

PS - I did a search of the forum already and was unable to find help with my problem...

[jmarshall]

Playlist substitution only works for playlists that reside on a network share.

It does not function for playlists that are local on the xbox.

Try grabbing a program that will allow you to replace text in a whole bunch of files - visual studio does this for instance, but I'm sure there are smaller programs suited for this task.

Cheers,
Jonathan