Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-12 Thread oyvindo
lrossouw;328353 Wrote: seperated the autoplaylists into another folder, but would prefer them to be automatically ignored. I find it so hard to understand why the developers at SlimDevices went for a playlist file format that differs from the WMP standard. Why? Can anyone explain the logic

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-12 Thread radish
oyvindo;328398 Wrote: I find it so hard to understand why the developers at SlimDevices went for a playlist file format that differs from the WMP standard. Why? Can anyone explain the logic behind such a decision? Simple - the wpl playlists are in no way a standard. The two commonly used

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-12 Thread Siduhe
oyvindo;328398 Wrote: I find it so hard to understand why the developers at SlimDevices went for a playlist file format that differs from the WMP standard. Why? Can anyone explain the logic behind such a decision? SC supports a wide range of playlist formats, including .wpl. As others have

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-12 Thread oyvindo
radish;328440 Wrote: Simple - the wpl playlists are in no way a standard. The two commonly used standards for playlist files are pls and m3u. Better ask Microsoft why they didn't use either of those... Asfar as I can see, SC can read m3u list created by VMP, but not vice verca. What does

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-11 Thread lrossouw
Goodsounds;328004 Wrote: I don't know if these should be interoperable or not, but if not, just use a different directory. They are not supposed to work as far as I know. The workaround is to use a different directory. But it is kind of manual as I have to move the playlist after I created

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-11 Thread Siduhe
What is the extension of the WMP playlists? Assuming it's something proprietary (do I remember .wpl correctly?) - just add this extension to Settings/Advanced/File Types/Disable playlist extensions. If you do a rescan playlists (may need a full clear and rescan to get rid of the ones that are

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-11 Thread lrossouw
Siduhe;328178 Wrote: What is the extension of the WMP playlists? Assuming it's something proprietary (do I remember .wpl correctly?) - just add this extension to Settings/Advanced/File Types/Disable playlist extensions. If you do a rescan playlists (may need a full clear and rescan to get

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-11 Thread Siduhe
Ah, good point. Didn't realise you were also using WMP for regular playlists as well as the autoplaylists. One option would be to instruct WMP to create its regular playlists in a different format as described 'here'

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-11 Thread lrossouw
seperated the autoplaylists into another folder, but would prefer them to be automatically ignored. -- lrossouw -* 'Recently Played on my Squeezebox 3s' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw/charts/?charttype=recenttracks) *-

[slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-10 Thread lrossouw
Hi I use WMP and I use auto-playlists on it. Squeezebox can't interpret these but it is quite frustrating that they still appear on the playlists in the library. Can't we make it automatically ignore auto playlists it can't play? First prize is obviously to make it use these thoug :)

Re: [slim] Windows Media Player Auto Playlists

2008-08-10 Thread Goodsounds
I don't know if these should be interoperable or not, but if not, just use a different directory. -- Goodsounds Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: