# find out incomplete albums

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-out-incomplete-albums/16086>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 31, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-out-incomplete-albums/16086 "2014-08-31T17:05:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![parafux](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@parafux](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/parafux)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-out-incomplete-albums/16086/17 "2014-09-03T19:15:36Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> No, not really.  
> the m3u8 file is just a playlist.  
> you can open it with a plain text editor to check the contents.  
> If there are no tracks in the playlist, then apparently the albums are not incomplete.  
> If there are tracks, check if you have applied a filter that finds no match in the files.

thx alot, i think now i got the point.

but what's a bit of a trap is, that all top directories are also included in this list, i.e. a, b, c, d, .....  
so this playlist makes mp3tag to load all subdirectories also

but if i switch off subdirectories in the options then it works .....

2morrow i'll check the rest, but for this, THANK YOU A LOT, i really know how much programming and debugging effort this must be.

cheers

p.

ps. thx for adding the detailed description to the original post of your source code of the export script to create the playlist.

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