JJZolx wrote: > > The only real difficulty I can see is if you wanted to listen to > something else while working on building or editing a playlist. > This is a significant part of the issue. When I'm building new playlists, I often do so on my secondary system by adding songs into the Now playing list. Probably not realistic for many (most?) LMS users to have a complete second system to work on what they will be listening to at some other time while the primary one is playing what they want to hear right now.
> > That's because designing and perfecting a user interface is many times > more work and difficulty. > This is true in almost all programming endeavors. I'm teaching some kids in the robotics program I mentor how to deal with web forms and it's challenging for them to say the least. > > There _are_ desktop applications available that let you build standard > m3u playlists. I should probably see if any of them are actually easier than what I do now when manually editing the .m3u files in Wordpad. The big disadvantage I can forsee with a desktop app is that it won't have access to the LMS database to search for tracks. My guess is that it will still be a matter of identifying tracks of interest in LMS and then manually finding that track in the file system to add it to the playlist. I do that now using Windows Explorer, shift-right click on the file I want and select "copy as path" from the context menu, then paste into the .m3u file in Wordpad. If I had any competency at all in Perl I would load a Linux build of LMS in a VM and see what I could do about creating a playlist editor plugin. It's got to be one of the easiest file structures to deal with since you can throw away pretty much everything except the initial #CURTRACK and #EXTM3U comments and just work with the list of fully qualified file names, one per line. The Javascript for the drag and drop behavior can probably be cribbed from the existing Now playing code. The most interesting part would be integrating search functionality within the editing to be able to indicate that you want to add a track at a point in the list and have one of the ways to add it is to select from a list of results returned by search. And after typing all this it occurs to me that it's almost completely off topic for this thread. :o Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD system, 15TB storage], LMS 7.9.0 -> Logitech Squeezebox Classic V.3 -> Cambridge Audio DacMagic -> NAD C160 -> 2 x NAD C272 -> Quad 22L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101727 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
