So can we make this a feature request?
> From: Erich Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:49:53 -0700 > To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]>, Michael Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Playlists on multiple machines. > > > Michael Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've looked on the list and there doesn't seem to be any good (translate >> useful) information out there on this. >> >> I'm trying to create a set of global playlists for mythmusic. When I >> create a playlist on my main machine (the backend/Frontend) the database >> tags it with the name of that machine. None of the other machines can see >> it. >> >> If I go into the database and edit the field to the name of the frontend, >> the playlist becomes available on that frontend. >> >> If I change it to Null, it doesn't show up anywhere. >> >> If I change it to * it doesn't show up anywhere.. >> >> >> Any ideas on one or more of the following: >> >> 1) Creating a playlist from the GUI that will show up on ALL frontends >> >> 2) Editing the field that assigns the playlist to a particular frontend >> to something that will make it show on all frontends. > > When listing or reading playlists, the code as is does a database query > whose match parameters includs the hostname of the machine the frontend > is running on, so there's really nothing you can do without changing > the code. > > I am kind of cheating with this, but I just changed the code for reading > playlists to never check the hostname. > > The other possibility is to change the code to support a "Global" > playlist setting like a "NULL" or "*" filename which you could either > set in the playlist interface when creating or editing one. > > Personally, I think playlists: > -- Shouldn't be attached to a particular machine (what is the point of > having multiple "shared" MythTV systems if only to have them not > see anything from each other?? even if it's all stored in the > same database!). > -- Maybe shouldn't be in the database at all... I'm considering > changing playlists to be read from "m3u" files, that way I can > import my large music collection and not have to worry about the > MythTV database ever getting corrupted. > > > -- > Erich Stefan Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.uruk.org/ > "Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular" >
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