How to play a PlayList on Android that uses music files on an smb share (Windows or NAS, ect)

Plus, how to share Playlists between Windows and Android, for music stored on a NAS device.

Using VLC:

1. Windows: Place your music on network share

2. Windows: Create a play list in xspf format

3. Android: Download VLC (do NOT use 2.0.6, there is bugs with SMB authentication, see https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=45228)

a. Download VLC 2.1.6,

b. http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/videolabs/vlc/vlc-2-1-6-release/

c.

4. Android Create a playlist in android,

5. Android: then view the playlist in SQL Editor,

a. They store playlist as a SQLLite DB, thus download DB tool and view playlist

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/15045/where-and-how-does-android-store-music-playlists

b. We want to get the exact format that Android VLC uses for path to mp3/music files

DB is stored in

./data/data/org.vlc/Databases

c.

d

6.

Then Open Windows playlist and replace all the windows paths with remote paths:

File\\C:\Hello

Smb://Server/Hello

Replace each local path with remote path in xspf from step 1

Optional, replace artwork refs (anything local)

After Search and Replace, comparing the remote and local file:

Save the xspf to network share Open this file in Androoid VLC as a remote file,

you can now play mp3 files on your network share!

Optional: Tune VLC

Per : https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=102250&p=458563&hilit=playlist#p458563
Hardware Acceleration ----> Full
Performance ----> Deblocking Filter Settings ------> Full
Performance ----> Enable Frame Skip -----> (check) (yes)

Similar article, using adb, I didn’t try this

http://vlc-playlist-android.blogspot.com/

Other paths tried: