Creating playlists?

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I am using playlist creator 3.6.2 it works good but now that I am getting a few titles I cannot figure out how to just add new titles Instead it recreares the whole playlist. The instructions says you can do it but the way I understand it it still creates a whole new  playlist which takes awhile with more titles annoying does anyone know the solution to this?

Thanks

Terry

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No matter what you do it has to write out the playlist (which is just an ASCII file) so there isn’t any way around it – adding more titles will still mean you have to make the list over again.

3

Well That stinks I can see over time it going to take hours to create one especially when I get hundreds of titles anyhow thanks for the time

Terry

4

Well, you don’t really have to use Playlist Creator – any decent text editor will open up that file and you can add to it yourself (it will require some typing, but if you *really* think it will take hours to create a list you could save yourself some time.  I’m very skeptical of that time estimate, though – I have five hundred movies in a playlist and it writes it in less than 10 seconds).

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It must be because my movies are on a nas and I have 2 drives attached to that I have 35ish now and it takes about 3 to 4 minutes. So not sure why yours is so fast.

Terry

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The first couple times I added movies it took a long time to rewrite the playlist.  Now when I add it only takes a couple seconds as Mike says. I dont know what changed but I know now its no big deal. I guess after awhile it doesnt have to rewrite all the data?  I dont really know why it changed

And mine on a NAS also

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Terry,

I use an NAS that houses two drives as well, but my whole system is very fast (I have an i7 machine that I use as my primary computer).  Three to four minutes sounds excessive, though – perhaps your drives are too fragmented or there are other network issues you might want to try straightening out (Tony is the expert on helping with these).