PorterLarge 1.0.1 – copy/flatten mp3 files to USB stick
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Just released the first official version of M3UPorterLarge, an app that copies MP3 files to a single directory, for use in your car, receiver, clock radio, or other slightly dumb USB MP3 player.
- Download From Github
- Local Mirror: porterlarge-1.0.1.zip
The M3UPorter program was created for a single purpose: to copy the files in an M3U playlist to a single directory. This is necessary because some portable devices and a lot of cars need all the audio files to be in one directory. As it turns out, it’s very hard to find a simple program that will just copy all the files from your audio playlist to one directory.
I got involved and created PorterLarge, because I need this copying to work with playlists too large to fit onto a USB stick. (These are generated by the as-yet-unreleased Unnamed Jukebox.) PorterLarge is an unofficial feature-development fork of the M3UPorter project, adding some error handling and support for more possible configurations.
I find that devices that have very good suppot for iPod and iPhone have very poor support for normal USB devices. My Mazda’s BoseTM audio system even displays “iPod” on the screen when you plug in a generic USB stick, and gets very stupid when albums or artists are sorted into subdirectories. I can’t decide whether the companies decide that iPod support is enough and then get lazy, or whether AppleTM contractually obligates them to dumb down their USB support. In either case, this program becomes necessary.
