On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:10 -0600, Daniel Jones wrote: > I think there should be a way to do Advanced Automatic Playlists. > Instead of using the default method for creating an Automatic Playlist, > an Advanced Playlist should be able to use some type of boolean > expression for more sophisticated playlist generation. > For example, I should be able to type something along the lines of > "( genre = 'Rock' && rating >= 3) || artist ~= 'djpretzel'" to get all > songs that have a genre of rock and a rating of 3 or more OR whose > artist matches the regex "djpretzel."
The database and playlist layers already (almost[0]) supports that. The problem is that there isn't any UI for it. Bug 320243[1] has a copy of the patch that Gabriel de Perthuis wrote almost a year ago to do boolean expressions in the search box. It shouldn't be too hard to turn this into a auto-playlist editor. Sounds like a good plugin. [0] we don't have regexps, but we have full boolean expressions [1]http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320243 > One other useful feature would be to save playlists in m3u format, in > addition to pls, since pls is not as widely supported by m3u. As Bastien mentioned, this would be fairly easy to do. It's already been filed as bug 316295[2], and I've made some comments on it, about how someone would implement it. [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316295 Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- Died. Woke up in Hell. Punched in PIN, logged on. Just another day." -- David Gerard _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
