A script to build playlists, Needs some work.

Hi, I am trying to write a script that will automatically create playlists in each one of my mp3 folders that I have on my debian box.

The box runs Sarge the filesystem in ext3 and the script will only be run once in a while so I really don't mind if it is a little slow.

The mp3's are located in /mnt/mp3/ each folder has the following naming convention Artist\ Album\ Name/. Each folder contains no sub folder.

This is done deliberately because I have an ipod and used to use iTunes on my mac. but now I am hoping to move away from the mac. I have started to use GTKpod and can add songs to my ipod via the add playlists option. The only problem is that the current playlist_generator script I have places each playlist in the same folder as the songs and references each song as ./Song_name.mp3

This means that my playlists are not portable.

I would ideally like to place my playlists in a playlist folder and have each song referred to by a complete path /mnt/mp3/Artist_album/Song_Name.mp3 in the playlist.

How can I accomplish this?

Here is what I have so far.

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#!/bin/bash
BASEDIR=/mnt/mp3/
if [ "$BASEDIR" == "" ]; then
echo You must specify a base directory
exit 1
fi
cd $BASEDIR
BASEDIR=`pwd`

# Remove existing playlists
find . -iname '*.m3u'|sed -e "s/^/\"/"|sed -e "s/$/\"/"|xargs rm -f

find . -type d |sort| while read -r DIR; do
cd "$BASEDIR/$DIR"

find . -type f -iname "*.mp3" | sed 's/^\.\///'|sort> "$DIR.m3u"

done
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I imagine I will need to save the pwd as a variable somehow whenever the script changes directories and add that to the beginning of the string read by sort, but I have no idea how.

Please help as this is my only obstacle remaining in ridding my life of iTunes completely and returning to my Open Source roots.

Thanks in Advance

Cy