Actually it was a one way ticket move I moved all my library from PC to MAC so I don't use MM anymore, but gosh i wish MM has existed on Mac...one day...

oh, that's an interesting approach - I didn't realize Itunes read the "grouping" field.

I am assuming you use http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39589 to get MM to write the playlist info into the grouping field.

I want to give this a shot too. So if you start a new playlist in MediaMonkey, you also create a corresponding autoplaylist in itunes.

One question though: if you add a song to a playlist in Mediamonkey, how do you get Itunes to re-read the tags to realize that the "grouping" tag has changed?

thanks for the input, I use another method, I took the "grouping" field as a common MM PC & Itunes Mac field and I wrote the playlist name in it thanks to a MM script. Then once in Itunes Mac I used the automatic playlist to gather them again.

There at two problems you need to solve in order to be able to take your PC playlists from MediaMonkey to your MAC itunes:

1) The location to your files have changed - because your harddrive is not called "C:\". Similarly, the mac also addresses network drives or external usb harddrives differently. Plus, in addition, you might have moved your music collection to a folder with a different name (say, on your PC it was in a folder called "My Music", but now it sits in a folder called simply "Music". So you need to change the path for each playlist entry.

2) The mac uses the forward slash "/" in pathnames, but the pc uses the backslash "\". So you need to replace all backslashes in your playlists with a forward slash.

So your old PC playlist lists files like this:
Z:\Music\Music Chris\Francine Reed\05 Go Tell It On the Mountain.mp3

To be able to import them into itunes, the must look like this:
/Users/Chris/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Francine Reed/05 Go Tell It On the Mountain.mp3

So you need to open all your playlists in a texteditor and run two search-replacement operations:

i) search for "Z:\Music\Music Chris\", replace with "/Users/Chris/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/"
ii) search for "\", replace with "/"

Save as a new playlist and import it into itunes. Done!

I wish there was an automated way to do this (in case you have lots of playlists), but I'm not script-smart enough to do this.
Maybe some day, the MM community will come up with a script that exports the corrected m3u's directly out of MM!

thanks for the info this is what i've already done on several pc. I tried something similar on my mac but it doesn't work the same way apparently

I have no clue how files are stored on a MAC, so I'll give a Windows example and hope you can take it from there.

Say you store you tracks on PC 1 as:
C:\Docs\Me\Music\Artist\Album\Track.mp3

The Artist\Album\Track.mp3 portion will remain unchanged on PC 2, but the path is now:
E:\Music\Artist\Album\Track.mp3

This means in a text editor you'd use the Replace function to replace C:\Docs\Me\Music\ with E:\Music\. Now the playlist will work on PC 2.

I hope this helps, as I don't know how MAC OS stores files.

thanks a lot , this is what i do when i move from one pc to another pc but here i am moving from a PC to a MAC.

on mac there is a "TextEdit" to open the .m3U file but the path are different from Windows to Mac , do you know what i should do to make my MM playlist ready to be open via itunes on a macbook Pro ? (witch of course the same mp3 files copied and the same structure in the folders ).

thanks again.

If paths are the same Tools > Scripts > Export all Playlists. If needed you can always use Notepad (or similar text editor) and it's replace function to quickly update the paths on playlists.

Hello There,

I'm trying to move all my MM playlist (not the automatics) to my mac so that i can use them again via itunes on my mac. Of course I have already made a copy of my mp3 files & folders in my mac exactly as in my PCs.

Thanks a lot for your help.

PS: the objectif is to use Traktor on my mac to mix with the help on my playlists already made a long time ago on my PC via MM.