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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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please, fedi open source (linux) audio player wizards, help me! (m3u/m3u8 in Rockbox, Poweramp and mpd) I need help with syncing playlists between devices.

I have music in UTF-8 paths and filenames, as well as playlist files that reference these paths.

Three devices that can and should modify the playlists directly are being synced with each other: iPod using Rockbox, Android using Poweramp, Linux using mpd plus an mpd client.

Now, here comes the tricky to reconcile part:
Rockbox and Poweramp can see and write m3u and m3u8 but only reliably treat m3u8 as UTF-8. mpd can't see m3u8 playlists and only accepts m3u or pls, but it will treat m3u as UTF-8.

Nextcloud, which syncs the files between two Linux machines (mpd) and the phone (Poweramp) does not sync symlinks.

mpd is really spitting in the soup here and I'm not sure what to do. Is there maybe a way to transparently show m3u8 files as virtual m3u files on the linux machines only via some sort of service, so mpd can just see and use them without making the other players not treat the playlists as unicode anymore?
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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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I'm so close to just writing my own audio player and ditch established options
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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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welp. it's happening
laptop screen that shows a mostly empty screen with two panes, one showing a single playlist "all tracks" and one showing "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)" with a compact play bar below both panes that shows a playback position, durations and a few indicators for shuffle and repeat
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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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mouse player can now read playlist files and tags :3 (please don't break on CJK characters)
the auto playlists do nothing so far
the music player now shows a sidebar populated with playlist names, one called "Alina 2026 Q1" is selected, within the song "バゥムクゥヘン・エンドロゥル" is selected. it also shows the album name as "Baumkuchen_EndCredits" and a mistagged artist name.
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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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ok yeah nice, mouse player doesn't break on CJK characters neomouse_cyborg_glare

go listen to the original ghost in the shell soundtrack
the player interface shows the song title "M01 謡I - Making of Cyborg" from the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack
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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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mouse play is gaining more features neomouse_cyborg_happy
the terminal player interface has secondary panes for auto playlists now, showing albums with track counts in the secondary pane in this example, as well as a search box at the bottom
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flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking made-with-estrogen verifiedlesbian @star@amazonawaws.com
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@0 this is such a cool project! c:
:cyberheart_cyan@corteximplant.com:1
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ghosts in the silicon ▒ @0@corteximplant.com
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@star yusss but also difficult for this mouse. a lot of planning and research and trial and error and figuring out how to make things better and asking for the occasional code review.

and things crash, and things crash, and things crash and oh the way mouse truncated this string was not unicode safe and why is this so slow? oh we might need adaptive render updates, and how the heck does fzf do its fuzzy search? ah, distances between chunks get penalized but why is this list now scrolling back to the top when the filesystem watcher updates the list? ohh ...

and so on neomouse_cyborg_fingerguns
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