Re: [slim] playlist woes
Your example #3 doesn't require a playlist - just make sure the album title tag is identical for all album discs in a set and set a DISCNUMBER tag (1,2,3 etc) then set the option in the web ui to group multi-disc sets together - rescan and...it will work fine. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75763 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] playlist woes
hi, I'm a happy user of the SB classic for almost 2 months now and after ripping my entire collection of CDs to a 1.5TB drive I finally come back to clear up some basics. The most urgent question is this: DO PLAYLISTS WORK AT ALL (outside the playlist folder) ??? I can copy a PL, that works fine in the playlist folder, from there to an album folder and it shows up but when I try to play it it comes up as empty ! What's wrong here? I will need a very large number of playlists eventually and they absolutely MUST be where they logically belong, that is with the album folders of the artists. Dumping them all in one place without structure (and also, yuk, with absolute paths) is useless for me. The playlist folder is nice for a few extras, like a collcetion of radio stations or a party mix or for lists SB creates, but not for real heavy duty use, imo. Please tell me that it is me and not the server software.. Playlists that show up should be playable, right? Why are they shown as empty ?? Are you using playlists and do they work for you beyond the one playlist folder?? thanks in advance, tom -- tawulf tawulf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35826 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75763 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] playlist woes
Hmmm, I'm confused. Why would a playlist need to show up in the ALBUM folder. If your playlist simply relates to a specific album, you'd navigate to the album and play that. A playlist is simply a file that points at various music files. I'm meticulous about my tags and directory structure, but somehow have never found the need to keep playlist files anywhere other than a single place. I'm not questioning you here, I am truly confused as to how you are using playlists in a way that the specific location of a playlist really matters. I guess in my world, a playlist is always a grouping of songs from DIFFERENT albums or artists. So I wouldn't even have an appropriate ALBUM directory to keep it in even if I wanted to. -- garym garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75763 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] playlist woes
OK, I had hoped to get answers not questions but since you wrote so quick and nice here are A FEW uses for playlists: - exclude tracks eg 1: I usually do not want to hear Obladi-Oblada from the White Album so I'd like to have a PL my_white_album eg 2: Often I'd like to not hear the bonus tracks of a remastered CD; so I want a PL to restore the original album - group tracks eg 1: I have many box sets which include both the tracks of the original albums and alternate tracks etc.. So I want to create PLs that play the original albums. Miles Davis, John Coltrane or Buffalo Springfield box sets are just a few examples. (recreating the originals from a collection) eg 2: I have all original Beatles albums in their respective folders but I'd also like to have PLs for the Red and Blue albums. (recreating a collection from the originals) eg 3: I usually put one CD into one folder. Many musical works consist of two or more CDs and I'd like to have a PL that plays all tracks that, say make up the opera or the live concert in a row. (create spanning sets) - change sort orders in a flexible way, independent from file names and track numbers (sort freely) I could go on, but I hope that some of these examples make sense to you. If not, consider this: showing something but not playing it is a bug by definition. Any other player like winamp or whatnot will play (well-formed) playlists, and so should this wonderful device. I really want to know how to make playlists work; please do not tell me that my wishes are exotic and please do not tell me how to work around any of the above examples! thanks for listening tom -- tawulf tawulf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35826 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75763 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] playlist woes
Aha. Understand. And I do some of the same things you do (reorder the tracks to get back to the real playing order of Allman Brothers Live at the Filmore, including tracks from Eat a Peach). The only difference is that I don't really care where the playlists themselves sit (so long as they have names that make sense to me). But this said, I think a lot of what you want to do can be done with Erland's playlist plugins (dynamic playlists, custom browse, custom exclude, etc. etc.). See this thread to get you started. I found playlists to be very lacking in SqueezeboxServer until I added all these playlists. Now I've only begun to use the power of playlists within SbS with these plugins. Not sure these will solve your directory location problem, but someone else may have a solution/answer for that. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483highlight=erland+plugin -- garym garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75763 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
