Ah right, yes, that would explain it.

The mask fields are listed at the top of the comment in the script file... <Artist><Album><Year><Tracks><Length><Rating><Discs><Path1><Path2><Path3>

In this case the <Artist> is the album artist, as everything is driven from the album level, so there's no point adding <Album Artist> as well.

Thank you trixmoto! Never even thought about going to %temp% directory. There is room in GUI, you should mention location file is saved to ;)

There is plenty of RAM on that box and had successfully generated m3u's before for an entire collection.

Log file showed that it was already in the process on different album, while in MM GUI was still showing previous GUI. Trying to generate an m3u on that one album, generated a crash too.

************log file***************
BatchM3UCreator: Initialising...
(Selected albums = 1)
-1:2609
--(Starting)
--(Saving in unicode)
--M:\Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark\1981 - Architecture & Morality\Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark-Architecture & Morality-1981.m3u
--(Previous backed up)
---M:\Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark\1981 - Architecture & Morality\01 - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The New Stone Age.flac
---M:\Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark\1981 - Architecture & Morality\02 - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - She's Leaving.flac
***********************************

And here is the bug or non-intended behavior depends how you look at it...

1. Windows is non-case sensitive OS (doh)
2. Library is in case-sensitive NAS (readynas running custom Debian) and mapped as network drive on Windows7
3. Batch M3u creator mask is: "<Artist>-<Album>-<Year>"
4. Select album where at least one Album has different case e.g. 'Fly on the wall' and one or more tracks 'Fly On The Wall'
5. Generate M3U in MM4.
6. M3U will crash taking down MM4

as soon as I fixed case sensitivity in tags, entire library had re-generated tags without any issues.

P.S. Is there any help file you use what tags can be used? I'd like to use an <Album Artist> that does not appear to work.

The debug file should be created in your %TEMP% directory. I could simply be a memory problem and the WScript just isn't allocating enough. You may need to run it in smaller batches.

For some unknown reason - script started to crash MM when I try to generate m3u for a big library of over 2500 albums. "Batch M3U Creator" always crashes on albums 170 or 171 or 172, however generating m3u just for the album that is showing it got stuck on I have no issues.

Windows event log shows MM got hung by the b@11$ any time 'Batch M3U Creator" get's stuck

The program MediaMonkey.exe version 4.0.7.1511 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 230
Start Time: 01ce01a28b93a720
Termination Time: 12
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\MediaMonkey\MediaMonkey.exe

I've tried to enable debug in "Batch M3U Creator"options, however where is that log file generated as I seriously can't find any debug info.

I'm glad you've found the script useful. Thanks for taking the time to post - much appreciated :)

Many thanks for providing this script.

I manage my music libary with Media Monkey (Gold) and play my music around the house using Sonos. I have a very large music library and often cannot remember which albums I have recently purchased and want to listen to. Sonos does not have the ability to list recently added albums.

I use your script to create a playlist for all new albums saving them in a folder that Sonos indexes. Hence when I run Sonos I can access these playlists from the Sonos controller and easily choose which of these newly purchased albums to play.

Once again many thanks for your efforts - this is the script I have been lookinhg for.

No, this script doesn't do any selection or filtering of tracks within the album, it always includes the whole album.

Hello,

Some albums in my database are duplicates, and I'd like to keep it that way. When I make a selection in MM with the column browser, I use "Folder" as one of the columns. This way it is possible to select the tracks from a specific folder. When I create an m3u playlist, all folders are processed. So, the duplicates are also in the m3u file.
Would it be possible to restrict the selection to the chosen Folder? Or maybe the pre-selection could be done in another way?

Allart

Perfect Thankyou.. will try it and get back to you :)

New version (2.7) is now available to download from my website. I have added 7 extra mask fields: <Tracks><Length><Rating><Discs><Path1><Path2><Path3>.

Nope, sorry.

[quote="trixmoto"]It's not possible to access ID3 tags which are not MM fields currently, sorry.[/quote]


ahh ok. well at least
[quote="trixmoto"]How about if I add <PathOne>, <PathTwo> and <PathThree>? So for this example...

C:\Music\[color=#00BF00]The Beatles[/color]\[color=#0000FF]Let It Be[/color]\[color=#FF0000]CD2[/color]\06 - Let It Be.mp3

<PathOne> = [color=#FF0000]CD2[/color]
<PathTwo> = [color=#0000FF]Let It Be[/color]
<PathThree> = [color=#00BF00]The Beatles[/color][/quote]

will work, do you have a rough ETA on when this will be implemented?

Many Thanks

Mark

It's not possible to access ID3 tags which are not MM fields currently, sorry.

Also is it possible to take options from the ID3 Tag to create the playlist file name...
so %Artist% - %Album% %Part Of Set%.m3u
then it will give veryone totaly flexibility of the automatic naming convention.

Ok, it's on my list.