Audacious

Another thought I had was the following (I have no idea how to implement it, though):

1) Perhaps Audacious can store playlist using relative paths instead of absolute (perhaps something that can be configured in the preferences).
2) Create a new folder, lets say "Folder X" in the same directory where Audio files are located.
3) Perhaps in Audacious you can change the location where playlists are stored in BOTH operating systems, so perhaps you can configure in such a way that playlists are stored just in "Folder X" instead of "C:/Users/Username/AppData/Local" in Windows or "/home/Username/.config/audacious" in Linux (perhaps something that can be configured in the preferences).

If 1) and 3) can be satisfied (or can be added as options of the program in "Preferences"), then problems could be solved more easily; In that case this would be a "Feature Request".

Thanks for your attention

After one week I have another thought in this situation that perhaps is simpler:

- It is possible to have an Audacious playlist, lets say X.audpl whose content could be an Y.audpl playlist? (i.e that if you check the .audpl file, the only file that appears is a playlist), so every time I update the playlist when using Audacious, it is actually updating the local Y.audpl file.

In that case, if Y.audpl is stored in the Music directory and allows relative paths, the problem could be solved.

I think solving my question could be useful also if you want to sync playlists across different computers that share the same directory of music files (ex. if using something like Dropbox), not only for a dual boot configuration.

For now, I'd suggest using a script to copy playlists (and the playlist-state file) from your Windows config folder when you log into Ubuntu, using sed to change the file paths, and another to do the reverse when you log out again.

I also have a dual-boot system with Audacious on both Windows 7 and Arch Linux, so if I get a chance I'll see if I can write example scripts.

Thanks, I will be very grateful. And I am glad we share the same situation, this could be useful to find solutions for these problems, that probably you also experience. I wish I could live only in a Linux world, but for work reasons, I need both.

Have a nice day.