prutser wrote: > I really like the Squeezebox and its ease of use. But there is one thing > which bothers me and that's how playlist and favourites are handled. > Maybe some of you have other ways of working or there might be a plugin > I am not aware of. > > Generally what I would like to have: > > - Playlists and favourites more or less to be independent of file > locations and rescanning. > - To be able to store songs which I listen to a playlist when listening. > > > What do I mean with independent of file locations and rescanning: > > - If I do a full rescan my playlist and favorits are usually gone. > - If I move files to another location it is gone from the playlist. > > Generally I think about a construction where songs are added as favorite > or playlist as a title/performer together with a hash. > As soon as a rescan is performed the playlist and favorites are kept up > to date by adding missing songs based on this hash. Of course if the > file is really missing it is marked as not available and the user has > to take some action. Calculating hashes would increase scanning time, > but probably a hash on a subset of the file in combination with > artist/title/playing time would be sufficient to uniquely identify the > file. > Unfortunately I have never done anything with Perl, so I have to rely on > others :( > > Any suggestions / opinions / similar experiences ?There is a plugin called > playlist manager which lets you add to a playlist. Why do move files and playlists?
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