feature request: cross-platform playlist support

I am happy to see someone is taking cross-platform music players seriously... finally!
Here is the list of enhancements that are blocking me from using songbird to play my music collection cross platform.

-Playlists: songbird still uses absolute paths i.e. Z:/users/username/music/mp3/blah... or c:\docs-n-settings\username\blah
When loading a playlist that uses uses a relative path, such as "../mp3/albumname/", songbird chokes and dies. This is for all playlist formats (I tested .pls and .m3u).

If songbird could export the playlists using local paths, and munge the playlists to deal with the "/" & "\" problem, you'd be well on the way to the perfect player. Of course, you would have to at least provide the option of exporting playlists with relative paths, which it does not appear songbird can do right now.

You can get around this problem by storing each playlist in the same directory as the .mp3 files, meaning that the file reference is just the track name. Unfortunately, this results in playlists being stored in multiple directories (one per album), and there is no way to import playlists from a folder hierarchy, forcing people to load hundreds of playlists one at a time. This would only fix this problem for album playlists; playlists based on other criteria would still be broken.

So, I am hoping someone will follow through and fix this annoyance that is actually universal for all music players on the market today, making Songbird the first true cross-platform music player that works.

Let me know what I can do to help.
John N.
<cabal@u.washington.edu>