Automate editing exported m3u playlists to remove absolute file paths

Hi, after getting a new car, I want to export my playlists from Apple Music to a USB drive. The car can play m3u playlists, but (as it is supposed to), Apple Music exports the playlists with absolute file paths to each track in the playlist.

With about 30 playlists, some of them with hundreds of tracks, it will be a lot of work to manually delete each file path from the m3u files. I see that there are Windows solutions to automate this, but I cannot find anything that works on Mac.

I have considered ways to search/replace, but since each track resides in a unique artist-album folder, that doesn't seem to hold any promise.

Any ideas?

Posted on May 11, 2023 4:54 AM

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turingtest2

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May 14, 2023 8:30 AM in response to BJ4Rock

See https://dougscripts.com/apps/m3unifyapp.php, use a text editor to edit out the absolute part of each location line in the m3u files, e.g. the part before artist and album, or write an AppleScript that creates .m3u files of the correct format for your car.

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BJ4Rock Author

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May 14, 2023 9:44 AM in response to turingtest2

Ah, excellent, I had gone through all of Doug's scripts, but found none that would work. But this app seems able to do what I want!

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