Copy Playlists to Another Raspberry Pi with rAudio?

[feebb]

I have 3 Raspberry Pi 4s with rAudio (different versions from 2024). All are set up to play music from a local NAS. I have made playlists on one of the rAudios and I would like to copy them to the other 2. I tried copying the playlists to /srv/http/data/playlists using WinSCP, but the lists don't show up on the other Pi.

Is there some way to make the other rAudios see the playlists? If not, is there another way to have one set of playlists be available to all 3 rAudios?

Thanks very much!

[kan-ibal]

Have you changed files ownership?
chown -R mpd:mpd /srv/http/data/playlists

[R101G]

I don't save playlists, so this is guesswork, but I wonder if you could use one Pi as a server and have the others mount it as a share at startup. You could then bookmark the playlist folder on all the Pi's. As for the ownership, your best bet is to choose the most stable rAudio version, and use that on all of the Pi's. I use 20231118, which has minor bugs but, so far, it works better for me than later versions and it can't be accidentally updated.

[feebb]

Many thanks for the advice!

I never used to use playlists either, but I wanted some way to select favorite albums and I could only think of playlists to do this. I was using rAudio versions from 2023 that were very stable, and I haven't wanted to take a chance on the new versions. But when the playlists weren't working, I bit the bullet and put the latest version on two Pi4s. After what for me is the usual nightmare of updating my library (the never ending update, among other things), I then just copied the files in srv/http/data from one Pi to the other.

So far, it seems to be working. I can create new playlists on one Pi and transfer the entire list to the other Pi. I just hope everything else works as it should on the latest rAudio.

P.S. I first tried using the Shared Data option in System, but I couldn't for the life of me get it to work.