Use backslash instead of forward slash in playlist items

[kingy444]

This tool works great but it is creating file paths as

C: / Users / %username% / Music
and not
C: \ Users \ %username% \ Music

Could you update the tool to use backslashes - reason being - I want to use the exported M3U with Emby but cannot as the M3U contents need to match identical to the library path - because the / and the \ dont line up the import fails

Justifying the change:

• The \ character is how windows interprets a folder path natively (forward is linux)
• An export from iTunes uses the \ too, so this would align the tool more with iTunes aswell

[Andrrison]

I second this request. I'd like the option to include a command to change / to \ in the output files. I export my iTunes playlists for two use cases:

1. Using in Poweramp on my Android devices - for which the current / works perfectly
2. Using in Audio Station on my Synology Diskstation - this requires \ in the pathways, so I cannot achieve this yet.

Seem to recall the GUI version used to be able to do this - I have some old exported playlists in my Audio Station with \ . @ericdaugherty is there something in the Command Line version that can achieve this already? If not, could this feature be added?

Thanks

[ericdaugherty]

Release 1.6 adds the option 'pathSeparator' which allows you to specify whatever character or characters you want to use as the output file path separator.

ex:
-pathSeparator "**"
or
-pathSeparator "/"
or
-pathSeparator "\" (at least on unix you need to escape the backslash)

[Andrrison]

I've downloaded 1.6.0 (Windows), but can't get this to work. Here's the code I'm running in Command Prompt:

itunesexport.exe -includeAll -library "H:\iTunes\iTunes Library.xml" -pathSeparator "\\" -output "C:\Users\morri\Music\iTunes\iTunes Library - Backup\Audio Station Playlists" 

Here's an example of a line from the output .m3u file, showing the pathway still with a forward slash, when my code requested a back slash:

H:/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Erasure/The Innocents/01 A Little Respect.m4a

Note I also tried this code (using "\" instead of "\\"):

itunesexport.exe -includeAll -library "H:\iTunes\iTunes Library.xml" -pathSeparator "\" -output "C:\Users\morri\Music\iTunes\iTunes Library - Backup\Audio Station Playlists"

Which generates this error:

Unable to parse command line parameters.
Unexpected paramter purchases

@ericdaugherty am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?