# Replace path when exporting m3u
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [November 23, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658 "2018-11-23T22:24:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658/1 "2018-11-23T22:24:45Z")
At the moment I'm using mp3tag to export playlists with following:
```
$filename(%_workingdir%.m3u,utf-8)#EXTM3U
$loop(%_directory%)$loop(%_filename_ext%)%_path%
$loopend()$loopend()
```
Trick is that for fileserver I would like to replace path during Export, so basically:
`\\Server\music\Albums\Something\Something\Somefile.mp3` would become `../Albums/Something/Something/Somefile.mp3` during export.
Any ideas how to do it with the least effort?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658/2 "2018-11-24T08:24:33Z")
Instead of using `%_path%` directly, you do some replacements in the form of:
`$replace(%_path%,'\\Server\music','..','\','/')`
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658/3 "2018-11-24T09:04:20Z")
Looks good, any Ideas how to actually avoid, hardcoding `\\Server\` part?
..\music.. is always static anyways.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658/4 "2018-11-24T09:18:17Z")
It depends a little on where you you store your playlists. It looks like they are on
`\\Server\music\Playlists\`
so you could try
`$replace(%_filename_rel%,'\','/')`
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658/5 "2018-11-24T09:28:17Z")
How did you find that out? 😃
But yes, indeed they are stored in `\\Server\music\playlists\` later
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### Author:  [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-path-when-exporting-m3u/43658/7 "2018-11-24T16:13:15Z")
Thank you @Florian, settled with:
```
$filename(\\Server\music\playlists\%_workingdir%.m3u,utf-8)#EXTM3U
$loop(%_directory%)$loop(%_filename_ext%)$replace(%_filename_rel%,'\','/')
$loopend()$loopend()
```