Re: [Banshee-List] Draging Music to Playlist... Should it work?.

[ZekeMX <ezequiel_partida hotmail com>]

Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:19 -0800, ZekeMX wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I tried adding music to a playlist by dragging the music folder and it
>> didn't work.
>> 
>> I have all of my music in different folders depending on the category in
>> my
>> Hard Drive.
>> 
>> In banshee I had to add all my music to the Music Library and then use
>> Add
>> to Playlist depending of the category.
>> 
>> I want a playlist for each Category or type of music (Classical, Rock,
>> Pop,
>> Country, Etc).
>> 
>> The problem with this is that I have a lot of music and it's a pain
>> adding
>> all of my music to the Music Library and then select them one by one to
>> Add
>> them to the Playlist I want.
>> 
>> I tried this with other Music Players, one of them is Rhythmbox. Like I
>> said: I just created a Playlist and drag the folder of my music depending
>> on
>> the category and presto!!! it worked.
>> 
>> The fastet way for me to do it is create the playlist in Rhythmbox, drag
>> the
>> music folders to the corresponding playlist, save the playlist as .pls
>> files
>> and import them in Banshee... It was MUCH faster.
>> 
>> I am using Mandriva Linux with KDE4.2
>> 
>> 
> You could use automatic playlists for that. If you add the entire folder
> into the library, then use an automatic playlist to filter out songs
> which exist inside that folder, then it would automatically update for
> any additional songs you add which are still within the directory. I
> believe this would be a more elegant solution then drag-dropping a
> directory into a manually maintained playlist. In the event that you do
> need to do that though, you could use Banshee's search filter --
> path:/path/to/directory/you/want, and then select all, followed by
> drag-drop into a manual playlist.
> 
> On the other hand, if your music is properly tagged, you can have an
> automatic playlist filter out songs by Genre, etc.
> -- 
> Chow Loong Jin
> 
> 

Thanks for your Tip.
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