This is a Small How TO for using and making multiple playlists for the PlayonHD.
(provided by Smaus)

It will only work If your music is stored on the internal Harddrive of the playon.

1. in the map where you stored the music on the internal Hdd,
you make a new map called "playlists".

2. install the free program media monkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/ on your computer.

3. in the drop-down menu "File" select "add/Rescan tracks to the library.....".
search here for the music files stored on your playon trough windows network.

4. If this is done. (beware it might take a while depending on how much is stored).
you can select the songs you would like to add to your play list,
and drag them to the "now playing" bar at the right of your screen.
(note that you only take the songs stored on your playon).

5. if you`re finished adding files to your playlist.
then select them all in the "now playing" bar and click once with
your right mouse button in the blue field of your selection.

6. here you select "send to" and then "export as .m3u playlist",
in the next window search your PlayonHD and store your playlist in the map "playlists"
which you made earlier in this section.
(beware to rename your playlist every time you add a new one, otherwise it will be overwritten)

This way you can make more playlists as you give them a different name.

7. Now you`re able to start a playlist in the PlayonHD by going to,
Browser, Hdd, select tab "music" here, then open the map "playlists"
which you made in your map where you stored your music files.

Good luck,

and again many thanks To Smaus, for providing us with this How TO.

i would like to add some details to this HOWTO:

1) The playlist output from MediaMonkey did not work without modification

The original output is the following, which cannot be regconized by POHD.

..\..\<your server>\mp3\chinese\M-Girl\M-Girls - Track 01.mp3


2) The paths on the playlist has to be modified to the following format

HDD/music/chinese/M-Girl/M-Girls - Track 01.mp3

3) Then browse for the m3u files in browse/HDD

Thanks seeheng,

for your addon,

hope it works better now.

Hi everybody, very new to the POHD, so got a lot of questions

first one: can somebody post a working m3u-file so I can look at how it's made up? The suggestions above do not work for me.
I am creating my playlists using mp3tag though, but that shouldn't matter, right?

above only works with mediamonkey

Great How To, thx this is something I was looking for

hope it works for you ,


and just to make it clear i just posted it,
but the idea came from Smaus.

plus there is a dutch version of this how to as well.
your name suggests your dutch.

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=3135






btw: please if so don`t reply in dutch here it is not allowed,
only in the dutch section it is

I have a problem playing playlists containing files with characters like é, ó, í etc. I made my playlists with MediaMonkey and it looked great but then I encountered this problem. When a filename in the list contains any character like é, ó, í and so on it stops playing with the message: file does not exist. Playing the same file directly from the browser does not give this problem. I can rename the files ofcourse but is there another solution for this?

if so i`m not aware of it,

BTW: i also was not aware this problem was there,
so i thank you for sharing it

only thing i can say for now is renaming the file.

Can you explain where to modify this?