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Bash script to create .m3u playlist files for all mp3s in subdirectories
#!/bin/bash
#
# bash script to create playlist files in music subdirectories
#
# Steve Carlson (stevengcarlson@gmail.com)
find . -type d |
while read -r subdir
do
rm -f "$subdir"/*.m3u
for filename in "$subdir"/*
do
if [ "${filename: -4}" == ".mp3" ] || [ "${filename: -5}" == ".flac" ] || [ "${filename: -5}" == ".loss" ] || [ "${filename: -5}" == ".aiff" ] || [ "${filename: -4}" == ".aif" ]
then
echo "${filename##*/}" >> ./"$subdir"/"${subdir##*/}.m3u"
fi
done
done
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I still get "playlist.sh: 13 playlist.sh: Bad substitution" error on RaspianOS with NTFS drives. Have no idea why. :(

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