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Does anyone know how to add to existing playlists when listening to My Music songs from the current phone app? I see how to create a playlist by saving a queue of songs? But if I already have a playlist, how do I add songs shown in the phone app to an existing playlist?

I tried Chicago Ski Guy's script (Exportc4_v2x.vbs) as a Media Monkey add-on. I have Control4's Composer HE version 3.2.1. Both my C4 system/Composer and Media Monkey point to and play from the same files (mp3 and FLAC) and file locations. I got as far as being able to right-click a MM playlist the choose "Export to Control4 v2.x ...when I select that option for the selected playlist, I get a MM error message saying "Selected drive/folder cannot be exported. Please select a valid device or folder under My Computer." I am stuck at that point. I don't know how to select a destination that MM would recognize for that exported XML playlist to go to. Chicago's Ski Guy's script was created many years ago. Does anyone know if it works for playlists only (not entire library) with current versions of MM and Control4's ComposerHE? If it does, what changes or additional steps do I need? Alternatively, has anyone tried any kind of a playlist format converter - to convert a MM-exported M3U playlist into an XML playlist C4's Composer would import and use relatively error and glitch free? Many thanks. Steve J

I saw a dealer's post that said: "There is another thread on here detailing how to import a library from mediamonkey and using the control4 plugin to convert it to a control4 xml file. This will save time a lot of time in scanning and creating a new library in control4." I could not find that other thread. On my NAS drive I have a 50K song library meticulously tagged with Media Monkey (MM). ComposerHE has scanned the same NAS drive volume and my C4 system with my new EA5, v.2 plays music from that NAS volume that MM organized and will also play from. With MM I have made extensive song playlists. It seems ComposerHE will import only xml playlists and MM cannot export or create xml playlists (MM creates m3u playlist files). Does anyone know about a plugin to solve my problem? Some other way I can utilized MM's superb playlist-making ability and then utlize those playlists with C4? Also, on Control4's website, the C4 User Guide for ComposerHE 3.1.3, page 35, says: "Other Media Managers: You can use other media managers, for example, iTunes, Windows Media Player, and Media Monkey to stream MP3s, WMAs, or MP4s." That seems to say Media Monkey can stream MP3 files through a C4 system. Does anyone know how to do that? If that literally is possible, I could stream music in my MM playlists throughout my house via my C4 system with my EA5 and 8-zone C4 amp. The ComposerHE playlist making, sorting, duplicated-deletion capabilities are primitive at best. Thanks. Steve J

msgreenf just wrote "I would recommend setting up dlna on it and connecting to c4 that." I'm not sure what that means. More specifics would be appreciated. Does that mean use DLNA through my Windows 10 PC to recognize an EXT4-formatted drive in the QNAP NAS chassis holding music files?

I too want to have my own FLAC and mp3 music files on a NAS. I can get a QNAP multi-bay NAS chassis and would put two 2.5" SSD drives in it. Each will be 2TB and they'll mirror each other in RAID1. My music collection would reside on the RAID1 mirrored drives in 2 if the QNAP NAS chassis bays. A Q4 employee specialist in Utah said music files must reside in a FAT32 file system drive for a Q4 EA5 to read and play those files. But, the Q4 same guy said QNAP NAS equipment has been proven as compatible with the Q4 EA series. I just learned that QNAP formats drives mounted in their chassis bays into the EXT4 file system - FAT32 is not possible. So, I'm confused. Will my incoming, to be installed EA5 read and play music files residing on my QNAP EXT4 formatted drive (set in RAID1)? This music in the NAS bay would be connected via network, not via the USB cable port on the EA5. I could get a 2TB FAT32 external hard drive to host the music and connect that drive to the EA5 USB 2.0 port but the C4 employee said frequent unplugging of that drive from the EA5 (to plug it into PC to add music, then plug it in again to EA5) is not recommended by C4. If anyone has any experience with this issue or good guesses, I'm all ears and will be most appreciative.