Question

I want to create a simple python script that look into folders and subfolders and create a playlist with the name of the folder containing the mp3’s. But so far I have only came across python modules that work on linux OR I could not figure out howto install them (pymad)..

It’s just for my android mobile so figured that the m3u format should do it.. I don’t care for any other meta data than the name of the mp3 files themself.

Answer 1

I actually just looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U and saw that it is quite easy to write m3u files… should be able to do it with simple python write to text file`

Here is my solution

import os
import glob

dir = os.getcwd()

for (path, subdirs, files) in os.walk(dir):
    os.chdir(path)
    if glob.glob("*.mp3") != []:
        _m3u = open( os.path.split(path)[1] + ".m3u" , "w" )
        for song in glob.glob("*.mp3"):
            _m3u.write(song + "\n")
        _m3u.close()

os.chdir(dir) # Not really needed..