Creates playlists for a 2018 Subaru Legacy head unit.
When Old Scratch designed the audio for the 2018 Subaru Legacy, Subaru took one look and told him "Satan, go home. You're drunk." But then they shipped it anyway!
Okay, maybe it isn't that bad, but it sure makes a terrible first impression.
The worst part is that it turns on the radio whenever you start or stop the car. The best advice I can give you is to tune it to to XM Radio channel 0; there's no audio on that channel at least.
You can then still play audio off a USB stick. But it doesn't know what folders are. It can only find audio files by metadata, and it plays them in alphabetical order (by the track name in the metadata, not file name).
Then there's a disabled "Playlist" button intead, but no way to make one. This little script makes playlists that work.
What the Subie is looking for are playlist files that share the name of the directory they appear in, but with an ".m3u" extension, and which must contain newline-separated relative paths to the individual files. Each path must end in an ".mp3" or ".wma" file extension.
The media files can be in subdirectories, and the playlist file controls the order of playback.
To use playlister, run it on the command line and pass a directory or directories to make playlists for:
./playlister.py ~/Music/*
./playlister.py ~/Music/Banjo ~/Music/KazooThis will create ~/Music/Banjo/Banjo.m3u and ~/Music/Kazoo/Kazoo.m3u. It won't create a separate playlist for ~/Music/Kazoo/Orchestral, but will include those tracks in Kazoo.m3u.
I've tested this only on Linux, but I think it should work on Windows or Mac OS X if you have Python there.