Mark,

Thanks. It makes total sense and I had basically come to that conclusion.

I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere and perhaps something should be added to the FAQ about this.

There are two problems. First, what is the top level or root directory that ARM (or other servers) use? It’s certainly not clear but I will assume that for every directory you specify when the scan is made each of those becomes a top level directory for the purposes of the playlist. At least that explains it for the one directory I use.

Second, what players create playlists in the proper fashion? Musicmatch seems to make absolute paths no matter what I try. I have set it to start in the same directory I scan from. I have recreated my library in this directory. It still makes absolute lists. I can’t find any configuration option for this either. It’s not a huge problem to solve with an editor or script, but it’s annoying.