On 7 March 2011 21:34, Paul Louden <paulthen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/7/2011 4:29 AM, pondlife wrote: >> >> I think of a playlist as an entity in its own right. Whilst I may have >> generated it from a directory or database query, I may then have manually >> edited it (removing that one track I always skip...). >> > Once a manual edit has taken place, I'd expect it to be treated like "an > explicit list of files." > > Meanwhile, if I've told my player "play for me all my Ozzy Osbourne tracks" > and made no manual changes, I'd expect it to change what's in the list based > on what's available on the player. > > This is, sorta, a difference between database playback and file based > playback, to me. I'd expect a database playlist to be a query result until > manually changed, while I think I lean more to one generated from a folder > staying an explicit list (thus not changing even if folder contents change). >
Like I said, this can be argued easily from both sides. And yes, any manual editing changes it to a "m3u"-ish playlist and not dirplay so the track list "should" stay the same
