use of itunes playlists with a onkyo receiover

[csei4]

How can i use or adress itunes playlists?
I use ums to stream music from my macbook Air to a onkyo tx 8050 receviver. (It is shown/detected as a TX NR-717 but seems to work)
the receiver display shows itunes > media > music > folders and i can play/stream single artists/albums.
But how can i play playlists ?
(the playlist(s) are not shown on the display)

Thanks for any help

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[csei4]

Found the answer myself. Just posting in case it is intersting for sombody else.

USM can`t read the usual itunes playlist format (.itl or .xml).
So the desired playlists have to be exported into .m3u and placed in a new created folder
eg: itunes playlists
and this folder has to be placed in the folder that was shared/enabled in the UMS Controlls (freigegebene Ordner)
eg: /Users/cs/Music/iTunes/

The itunes playlists folder now apears in the receivers display and one can selected from all the different exported playlists.

Hope that helps or maybe it was just so obvious.

Have fun streaming
csei4