How do I make a smart playlist on beets that's compatible with navidrome on windows?

[robuck86]

I've been trying to create a smart playlist that works in navidrome. I can create the playlists, but I can't figure what path I'm supposed to be using. Does anyone know how to do it?

My music is in this path:
T:\navidrome\music\beets\
I've tried a bunch of things, but this is the not-working config I have now.

smartplaylist:
    relative_to: T:/navidrome/music
    playlist_dir: T:/navidrome/music
    forward_slash: yes

and an example of the error I get in navidrome logs:

level=warning msg="Path in playlist not found" path="/music/beets/XMAS/The Three Tenors/The Three Tenors Christmas/La Virgen lava pañales.mp3" playlist=xmas

[arsaboo]

Does "/music/beets/XMAS/The Three Tenors/The Three Tenors Christmas/La Virgen lava pañales.mp3" exist?

[robuck86]

Yes. There are many other songs in the playlist as well that all exist. If I make a playlist with mp3tag it works. And I can use the playlists in VLC.

For example, another album and it's songs are located here, this is the path copied from windows explorer.

T:\navidrome\music\beets\xmas\Canadian Brass\Christmas Time Is Here

T:\navidrome\music\beets\xmas\Canadian Brass\Christmas Time Is Here\Skating.flac

[robuck86]

I think the problem is my remote drive is mapped incorrectly in windows. I'm going to delete my database and remap the drives and see if it helps.

[robuck86]

Solved! The problem was a an upper-case/lower-case problem. For some reason, on my remote server running navidrome the folder was called 'XMAS', and on the local one where I'm using beets it was 'xmas'.

I didn't realize the the m3u paths were case-sensitive, but I saw this issue navidrome/navidrome#3373

I moved everything to a new lowercase folder "christmas" and it fixed it!