Sorry Danzig, I cannot debug what you are doing - it just seems to me you are not doing the very first step correctly.
- Create an Export configuration in MP3Tag with the tool commands
- Menu File --> Export --> New
- Enter "Create mp3 lists" or whatever you like
- An Editor should open
- Copy paste the code given (did you omit this step?)
- Save (did you omit this step?)
- The name of the Export file should then look like this: ".\playlists\create_mp3_lists.bat" (this will be automatically generated if you did everything correctly.
After running this export configuration (selecting files, etc.) you will be asked if you want to open the batch file, which you should confirm and it should run in a command window.
For reference: The batch file "create_mp3_lists.bat" should look something like this:
@ECHO OFF
REM ***************** This marks a batch file remark
REM **************************************************************************
REM ***************** Generated by Mp3tag v3.28 on 04.01.2025 12:49:50
ECHO ****************************************************************************************************************
ECHO MP3Tag: Automatically create playlists based on folders and tags - Written by Jozo Acksteiner
ECHO Based on ideas of Moonbase
ECHO.
ECHO DESCRIPTION:
ECHO This tool creates playlists
ECHO a) for all blank separated words in the %%comment%% tag (multiple words = multiple playlists)
ECHO b) for all subfolders in your Music Folder (one playlist for each subdirectory)
ECHO The created playlists are named "-{Playlistname}-.m3u" (for blank separated words in the %%comment%% tag)
ECHO The created playlists are named "-ZZZ_DIR-{foldername}-.m3u" (for all subfolders).
ECHO They are stored in the folder \playlists (in the main music folder). The playlists reference relative to \playlist.
ECHO.
ECHO NOTES:
ECHO - The %%comment%% tag will be used to create playlists for *each* blank separated word in each %%comment%% tag
ECHO - make sure that the %%comment%% tag contains only words for which you want to create playlists!
ECHO.
ECHO INSTRUCTIONS
ECHO 1) Create an Exportconfiguration in MP3Tag with the tool commands
ECHO 2) Delete all content in the %%comment%% tags; create words in the %%comment%% tags for which you want to have playlists
ECHO (e.g. by genre: %%comment%%="rock pop" will create one playlist for "rock" and one for "pop")
ECHO 3) Highlight the files for which you want to create the playlists
ECHO 4) Use the export function in MP3Tag to run. This will create the file create_mp3_lists.bat in the \playlists folder
ECHO 5) MP3Tag will ask you to view the exported file. Confirm. The create_mp3_lists.bat will open in a new window.
ECHO 6) Confirm again. The file create_mp3_lists.bat will create all playlists.
ECHO.
ECHO ****************************************************************************************************************
ECHO Start to create playlists for all folders and for all blank-separated words in the %%comment%% tag
ECHO IF YOU CONTINUE, ALL OLD PLAYLISTS WITH THE NAME "-*-.m3u" IN THE FOLDER \playlists WILL BE DELETED!
Pause
ECHO.
ECHO.
SETLOCAL
SET PlaylistPath=..\playlists\
SET PrefixForDirectiory=^-ZZZ_DIR
ECHO Removing old ..\playlists\-*-.m3u files / playlists ...
DEL /Q "-*-.m3u"
ECHO complete.
ECHO.
ECHO Creating playlistentries for ..\1900^-1980\ABBA ^- Chiquitita.mp3 ...
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