How to synchronize a WMP playlist on a USB

I have a bunch of MP3s at home I organised with Windows Media Player 11 on my desk.

I want to put some of these playlists on a USB key, so my wife (who is not a computer genius) can play songs to his students on his computer at the school during art classes. Note that she has to play the songs of the USB and cannot import to the computer's music library, because it gets erased every morning (it's a policy at her school to restore the computer to the same State from each AM).

This looks like it should be easy to do, but I tried to do it for a month now, and I keep hitting a few insurmountable snags.

First thing I tried to do is to sync the playlist on the USB as follows:
-Put the USB in
-Open WMP
-Right click on the list of reading and then "add to sync list."
-Go to the sync window, and then click Start Sync (which shows the USB drive letter)

This transfers actually all MP3 playlist on the USB.

But it is not copy the actual .wpl file.

No problem... I just manually copy the file .wpl on the USB.

Songs played very well from my computer at home, but not to the computer of my wife's work. The reason is that the paths of the MP3 files in the. WPL file were absolute paths that refer to the original Pathé on the PC, not the paths of the USB.

So, I opened the. WPL file and substited all paths so that they are related. For example, what has been "C:\Users\Alain\Music\etc..." becomes"... \Music\etc...". (I had copied manually the.) WPL file to the path of the musique\selections on the USB).

It worked, sort of...

My wife was able to play the playlist on his computer at work, but if she made any change to the reading list (ex: remove a track she did not), then WMP would eventually rewrite the paths of the. MP3 files, so that they are absolute paths to files in the library of music on the C: drive. Needless to say that these paths do not exist on the C: drive of my wife. They exist only on the USB key.

Of course, there is a bug in WMP.  To try to work around this problem, I replaced the paths of the selection to absolute paths that point to the USB key. In other words, "C:\User\alain\Music\etc" was susbtituted to 'G:\Music\etc '.

I didn't like this idea, because it works on computershere that the USB is tagged as G: and even there, the letter that is assigned to the key depending on what other USB devices USB box you connected to the computer and in what order. But I thought that I had no choice and in any case, my wife does not use too many USB devices to work, and she always listens to music on the same computer. So, in most cases, his USB stick will be the letter G:.

But it STILL DOESN 'T WORK!

The reason is that when WMP sync MP3 files on the USB, it actually changes the names of files and directories. For example, WMP ended by removing the hyphen in the following path:

"Tiersen\Tabarly - B.O.F Yann Tiersen Yann"

and replaced it with a space, as well as on the USB, it acctually appears in the form:

"Yann Yann Tiersen B.O.F Tiersen\Tabarly"

But in the. WPL file, the path is the hyphen in it, and therefore, even after the substitution of 'C:\user\alain\Music' to 'G:\Music', the file is not found.

To resolve this issue, I must try to play hundreds of songs on the USB, to identify those who don't play, figure, or is it that the new path, change this in manually the. WPL file that is located on the USB.

I have to do EVERY time that I synchronize a new version of the. WPL file for the USB key.

Now, which is becoming a little too crazy for me.

Am I the only one to experience this kind of problems? If someone has been able to find an easy way to synchronize playlists with a USB key so that they can be played from any PC without having to import songs in the library?

THX.

Hello

It is, for all purposes useful, not a supported configuration.  You must copy the files to a local drive.

If you wish to continue using technology in this way, you can use find and replace the functionality of wordpad to edit the file.

Another option you could possibly use is to create the environment variables for your script:

Reference: Windows PowerShell tip of the week

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730964.aspx

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