d6jg wrote: 
> I’m not sure it is DOT and I’m not in a position to check at present.
> However it’s easy to create a nested structure using the standard LMS
> GUI and I can say that favourites get stored in a file called
> favourites.opml
> My preference would be
> Open Favourites
> List Favourites
> At top level that might be returned as
> 
> Radio 1
> Radio 2
> Folder called “Other”
> Radio 3
> 
> Play Radio 2
> Or
> Open Other Folder and List contents

Thanks for pointing me to the OPML file. I'll take a look at it. That
subtle fact is not mentioned in the API docs - what's there is:

> 
> favorites items <start> <itemsPerResponse> <taggedParameters>
> 
> The "favorites items" query returns all server favorites. This query is
> based on XMLBrowser.
> 
> Accepted tagged parameters:
> 
> Tag   Description
> item_id       The id of a favorite to be returned. The id represents the
> hierarchical structure of the file using a dotted syntax similar to the
> one used in SNMP, like eg. 2.0.9.3
> search        When a list of items is to be returned, it can be filtered by
> it's name or title.
> want_url      If set to 1, urls are returned by the query, otherwise they
> aren't.
> Returned tagged parameters:
> 
> Tag   Description
> count The number of items available at the selected level.
> For each element:     
> id    An item's hierarchical id. Item delimiter.
> name  An item's (favorite or folder) name.
> hasitems      Whether or not an item has sub-items. May indicate the number
> of sub-items.
> url   URL of the station or track (only returned if parameter "want_url"
> is set to 1). Although, the station can be played using the "playlist
> play" command, an equivalent command that operates on the id is provided
> below.
> Example: See other XMLBrowser based queries above

So you can see that's where I found the DOT notation reference. I
created a few favourites in 2008 and never revisited them so have no
idea how I ever did it :)


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