Hi,

There have been a few calls for adding the option to ignore particular
filetypes (e.g. MP3s in a directory where one already has FLACs). I've
added a function to SC to allow this, and I'd appreciate some feedback
if people want to try this out.

It works in a fashion similar to .cvsignore files - you pre-populate a
file called ".slimignore" in the directory which contains the
"duplicate" files containing a wildcard pattern which masks out the
files you want skipped. Here's one which would work:

====
*.mp3
*.ogg
====

That will exclude any files with the extension .mp3 or .ogg from
processing from that directory ONLY - it's a bit different from
cvsignore in that it doesn't apply to subdirectories, so the possibly
slightly annoying fact is you'd need one .slimignore file per album if
that's how you organize your music. That wouldn't be hard to script
though :)

I've tested it on Linux only, but I don't *think* any of the Perl code
is OS-specific  -- again, feedback appreciated.

I don't know of the policy for getting this included in SC if it ever
passes muster or gets that far - how does that work?

Anyway, it's a patch to Slim::Utils::Misc (search for a file called
"Misc.pm")


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