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I need help with syncing playlists between devices.

I have music in UTF-8 paths and filenames, as well as playlist files that reference these paths.

Three devices that can and should modify the playlists directly are being synced with each other: iPod using Rockbox, Android using Poweramp, Linux using mpd plus an mpd client.

Now, here comes the tricky to reconcile part:
Rockbox and Poweramp can see and write m3u and m3u8 but only reliably treat m3u8 as UTF-8. mpd can't see m3u8 playlists and only accepts m3u or pls, but it will treat m3u as UTF-8.

Nextcloud, which syncs the files between two Linux machines (mpd) and the phone (Poweramp) does not sync symlinks.

mpd is really spitting in the soup here and I'm not sure what to do. Is there maybe a way to transparently show m3u8 files as virtual m3u files on the linux machines only via some sort of service, so mpd can just see and use them without making the other players not treat the playlists as unicode anymore?