How to add a folder to a playlist in Banshee?

Question

Now how do you add an entire folder to a playlist of Banshee. Say, you have a precious folder in which you have put your favorite songs one by one. How do you create a playlist for that folder?

Regards Raghu

Answer 1

You can do this using Banshee's “smart playlist“ feature:

1. Add a new smart playlist (Media → New Smart Playlist…)
2. Choose “File Location“ and “Starts With“ as a criterion
3. Enter the name of your folder. Note that it has to be a proper URL, i.e. something like /home/user/Music/Favorites/

The advantage of such a “smart” playlist is that it dynamically adapts, so you can simply drop new files into that folder and they will appear in the playlist.

Answer 2

To achieve what you want we will create a playlist then import it.

1. Open a terminal
2. Go to the directory your files are in : cd /PathToMusicFiles
3. ls *.mp3 > playlist.m3u (if you are not importing .mp3 change the extension)
4. Open Banshee
5. Media -> Import Playlist (the file you want to import is /PathToMusicFiles/playlist.m3u)