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Also, found it was necessary to put "#EXTM3U" at the top of each playlist file, else it's not parsed by UMS

Thanks for the tip, that was it - the playlist file name needs to be relative to the playlist file itself. Giving details to make it hopefully easier for someone to search and find. So for example, to create a m3u playlist where your music files might be organized into folders like this, with child ...

I switched from another platform to UMS, running on Linux, and I can't figure out the right path to use to get my m3u playlists to work. I found some (older) posts that said they had to be relative, not absolute, but even then, I've tried "starting" from the UMS profile directory, the UMS ...