On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 20:17, Ralf Engels <ralf-eng...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Lydia, > it's still open and as far as I know nobody is working on it. > > I would say that Amarok should inform the user (at startup or later) > when tracks are in the playlist that are not physically available. > > So I would say a new function "checkForStaleFiles" in the Amarok class > maybe (or playlist class) would be needed. > The it should be called some time after startup (maybe five or ten > seconds. Not directly after startup when so many things are going on). > > There is a getUrl function in the Meta::Track class that can be used to > check the location of the file. > Also sometimes the track can be deleted from the collection but the > playlist not updated (e.g. if you remove the database but not the other > amarok settings files) > In this case you might get some null pointers which also indicate > removed tracks. > (don't forget testing with audio streams and maybe some other > collections like when playing from a audio cd) > > If stale tracks are found then a dialog box could be displayed asking > the user: > "The current playlist contains tracks that are not longer available. > Should those tracks be deleted? yes/no" > > If you have no idea how Amarok is working I would propose to do it step > by step: > > 1. output a debug message after amarok is started up > 2. display a yes/no dialog after amarok is started up > 3. display the current tracks after amarok is started up > 4. display the current tracks and their status after amarok is started > up > 5. the rest. > > Look for the PlaylistController.cpp Amarok.cpp and Meta.h > > I am also on the Amarok channel, but it might take some time for me to > answer. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > On Do, 2011-06-16 at 14:02 +0200, Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> Ralf could you answer this? I think it is your area. >> >> >> Cheers >> Lydia >> >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:28, sandeep <sandy.8...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I was wondering if this is still open and is anyone working on it right >> > now? >> > Also, could someone please explain what exactly needs to be done here. >> > Thanks, >> > Sandeep
I would urge you to implement Meta::Track::isPlayable() instead. In addition to MetaProxy loading in XSPFPlaylist and other playlist classes. _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
