Hi All In SB I heavily use Erlands dynamic playlists with trackstat for 'top rated' tracks, I wanted to get the top rated playlist onto my mobile devices, this is the method I used on my linux server (vortexbox)
1. The toprated.m3u playlist with all rated songs is created when I rescan (auto scheduled), I then do a quick clean up on that with a grep command for step 2 2. use rsync to transfer the tracks in the playlist from 'flac' folder to 'mp3' folder, approx 15% of my library 3. Run flac2mp3 mirror to convert to mp3 4. Point spotify to 'mp3' folder as local music, scans for new music each time I open it 5. Use spotify to tranfer to ipod/iphone/HTC desire etc. Works pretty well, I'll be automating 1-3 and will use spotify to periodically update mobile devices, may well look to add in a 'new music' transfer as well however a lot of those albums are on spotify already. Couple of limitations - I believe that step 2. won't delete tracks in the destination folder if say I unrate a song, not a massive issue - Spotify isn't as good as say iTunes for handling 'local' music and creating dynamic playlists, e.g. on SB I drill down into top rated 80s, 90s, indie, pop etc. etc. - however there is no reason why you couldn't use itunes for steps 4/5 for apple devices as I believe it auto monitors a folder (not used itunes for a while) Quite interested to hear whether others have tried anything like this? (there might be an easier way) Also whether alternative software is better for handling the transfer to mobile devices? Cheers Ian -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92784 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
