Want to copy a playlist, try this

[Hoser Rob]

Just did this again, very useful for copying music files from my laptop to my netbook. Things like this are what I love about Linux. So I'm posting it again.

I usually use the 2nd command which numbers the playlist items. It's far too easy IMO to hit the wrong thing in media players and mess up the order. Numbering makes it easy to recover.

Export your playlist to a m3u file. I called it playlist.m3u here, don't just blindly copy/paste this stuff. This is why I didn't ember the strings in <code> tags.

Open a terminal in the folder where you have saved the file.

Copy & paste this:

sed "s/#.*//g" < playlist.m3u | sed "/^$/d" | while read line; do cp "${line}" '/path/to/output/folder/'; done

Modified so that files are renamed according to their position in the playlist:

sed "s/#.*//g" < playlist.m3u | sed "/^$/d" | while read line; do (( COUNTER++ )); filename="${line##*/}"; cp "${line}" "/path/to/output/folder/$COUNTER - $filename"; done