On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:39:11PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Heinrich Langos wrote: > >>> Is there a way to delete a playlist with gnupod (other than editing the >>> XML)? >> >> Not yet. >> >> But good thing you asked. I'll put that on my TODO list for gnupod_delete >> I can simply add a "--remove-empty-playlists" option. >> >> Playlist handling was a little limited since gnupod_search works in a linear >> fashion. It reads the XML file and processes it at the same time. Since >> playlists are listed after the songs in the XML file, you could not do >> selections or deletions based on playlist membership. >> >> The new gnupod_delete works in two passes. So I could add something >> like "remove this playlist with all its files". > > Actually, I am looking to simply delete a playlist, regardless of what > songs are contained in it (some or none). I don't want to delete any of > the files contained in the playlist.
Well, thats quite easy to do. I'll just have to think about a way to integrate it into the current user interface. (I.e. wether to make a gnupod_delete work exclusively either on playlists or on songs, or wether to try to get it all in one go.) I guess it is easier to have "gnupod_delete --playlist foo" ignore all the filter/sort/view/limit options that apply to songs and simply delete the playlist. In a second step we could have an additionl "--with-files" option that would only work in conjunction with "--playlist" and that would also remove the files from that playlist. That one could take additional arguments to further filter the files that are to be deleted. BTW: what happens to songs that are pdcasts by media type and not listed in a playlist? are they visible on the ipod at all? >> BTW: Would you like gnupod_delete to be interactive by default and >> to have a "-f"/"--force" options for non-interactive deletion or >> would you rather have it non-interactive by default? > > Hmm...good question. Personally, I use gnupod mainly from scripts so I > would be using it primarily non-interactive. But I can see where you > might want the default to be interactive so you would not delete files by > accident. Maybe a default behaviour of only asking when more than 10(20?) songs are to be deleted and both --force and --interactive to allow full control? cheers -henrik _______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
