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Dorianvogel

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Registered: 2014-11-17

Posts: 1

Amarok playlist content & rsync

Hello,
I'm currently trying to sync a playlist created in amarok to my new phone (Jolla) using rsync.
I'm using the "--files-from" option, targetting the *.m3u file. Option are ok, but I'm stuck with the following :
In the m3u file from Amarok, audio files (mostly *.ogg) are listed using URL formatted path (I mean ' ' are replaced by %20 and so on) obviously, rsync complains about not finding those files.
So I went into bash scripting to convert those URLpath to linux path :

rm newList.m3u

for i in $(grep '../Musique' list.m3u)
do 

#awk snippet courtesly from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/URL_decoding#AWK
awk -v str=$i '
BEGIN {
    
    #printf("%s\n",str)
    len=length(str)
    for (i=1;i<=len;i++) {
      if ( substr(str,i,1) == "%") {
        L = substr(str,1,i-1) # chars to left of "%"
        M = substr(str,i+1,2) # 2 chars to right of "%"
        R = substr(str,i+3)   # chars to right of "%xx"
        str = sprintf("%s%c%s",L,hex2dec(M),R)
      }
    }
    printf("%s\n",str)
    exit(0)
}
function hex2dec(s,  num) {
    num = index("0123456789ABCDEF",toupper(substr(s,length(s)))) - 1
    sub(/.$/,"",s)
    return num + (length(s) ? 16*hex2dec(s) : 0)
}' >> newList.m3u

done

sync command :

rsync  -hrut --progress --files-from=newList.m3u ~ Jolla:/home/nemo/Music/

'Jolla' is a known host

It works quite good (most of the files are sync'd), but some characters aren't converted as expected (e.g. '%C3%84' should be 'Ä' but becomes 'Ä') and rsync still complains about those files.
So I'm looking for an easier way, without translating the playlist : any way to get an Amarok playlist with real linux path ? or any way to get rsync accept those URL ?
(Or is there any mistake in the awk script ?...)

Thanks everyone