Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Playlist File Copying

[Stephen Griffiths <steve stevegriff com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 01:53, Colin Walters wrote:

:)  Yeah forgive crappy mail program in work

Yep, the code does both m3u and b4s - Winamp V3+ uses the new and
superior b4s format which is just snazzy xml. I've never tried a .pls
file in winamp, let me check for you.

I will create a patch file within the next day or so.

Thanks

Steve Griff

www.stevegriff.com



> [ Could you wrap your lines around 80 columns or so? ]
> 
> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:00, Stephen Griffiths wrote:
> > Hi People,
> > 
> > Yesterday I created two new features for Rhythmbox:
> > 
> > 1) Save as winamp playlist.
> 
> Hmm.  I'm reading email offline right now, so I can't check - what is a
> "winamp" playlist?  m3u?  Or something else?  Is it really
> winamp-specific?  Can winamp not read .pls format?  Do other music
> players call it a winamp playlist?
> 
> > 2) When you save the playlist - there's a checkbox labelled "copy files"
> 
> I think I'd rather see this kind of thing integrated with better support
> for removable media.  Saving winamp-format playlists along with copying
> the music files is kind of specific to your one particular device. 
> Ideally what we would have is a menu entry like Playlist->"Copy to
> <device name>", and that would handle whatever specific details were
> necessary for the particular device.  
> 
> > Feature 1) is straightforward enough to be included in the next version of Rhythmbox
> 
> It is, except we're in string freeze right now.  I had planned to open
> up the --0.9 development tree soon anyways, and we can put this stuff
> there, along with other things in the pipeline.  Once we release 0.8, we
> can backport some things for 0.8.1.
>