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diff --git a/modules/music-config.el b/modules/music-config.el
index 92b04782..47863e41 100644
--- a/modules/music-config.el
+++ b/modules/music-config.el
@@ -677,18 +677,39 @@ M3U-FILE should be an existing, writable M3U file path."
(unless (file-writable-p m3u-file)
(error "M3U file is not writable: %s" m3u-file))
- ;; Convert absolute path to relative path from music root
- (let ((relative-path (if (file-name-absolute-p track-path)
- (file-relative-name track-path cj/music-root)
- track-path)))
- ;; Determine if we need a leading newline
- (let ((needs-prefix-newline nil)
- (file-size (file-attribute-size (file-attributes m3u-file))))
- (when (> file-size 0)
- ;; Read the last character of the file to check if it ends with newline
- (with-temp-buffer
- (insert-file-contents m3u-file nil (max 0 (1- file-size)) file-size)
- (setq needs-prefix-newline (not (= (char-after (point-min)) ?\n)))))
+ ;; Relative when the track sits under the playlist's own directory, absolute
+ ;; otherwise.
+ ;;
+ ;; The base is the playlist rather than `cj/music-root' because that is what
+ ;; both readers resolve against -- `cj/music--m3u-file-tracks' and EMMS's
+ ;; `emms-source-playlist-parse-m3u'. Inside the music root the two are the
+ ;; same directory, which is why basing on the root went unnoticed: it only
+ ;; wrote an unresolvable line once a playlist lived somewhere else.
+ ;;
+ ;; Falling back to absolute keeps a cross-tree reference readable, and it
+ ;; survives the playlist being moved again. A playlist in the mpd directory
+ ;; pointing into ~/music would otherwise carry a four-level ../ chain that
+ ;; breaks the moment anything moves.
+ (let* ((dir (file-name-directory m3u-file))
+ (relative-path
+ (if (not (file-name-absolute-p track-path))
+ track-path
+ (let ((rel (file-relative-name track-path dir)))
+ (if (string-prefix-p "../" rel) track-path rel)))))
+ ;; Does the file need a separating newline first? Read the content and look
+ ;; at its last character, rather than seeking to a byte offset derived from
+ ;; `file-attributes'. That call does not follow symlinks, so on a
+ ;; stow-deployed playlist it measures the link string instead of the file:
+ ;; every symlinked playlist read the wrong byte and gained a blank line per
+ ;; append, and where the link string was the longer of the two the range fell
+ ;; outside the file entirely and the append died on a nil `char-after'.
+ ;; Playlists are small text files, so reading one is cheaper than being
+ ;; clever about offsets.
+ (let ((needs-prefix-newline
+ (with-temp-buffer
+ (insert-file-contents m3u-file)
+ (and (> (buffer-size) 0)
+ (/= (char-before (point-max)) ?\n)))))
;; Append the track with proper newline handling
(with-temp-buffer