Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature Suggestion

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:10 -0600, Daniel Jones wrote:
> I think there should be a way to do Advanced Automatic Playlists.
> Instead of using the default method for creating an Automatic Playlist,
> an Advanced Playlist should be able to use some type of boolean
> expression for more sophisticated playlist generation.
> For example, I should be able to type something along the lines of
> "( genre = 'Rock' && rating >= 3) || artist ~= 'djpretzel'" to get all
> songs that have a genre of rock and a rating of 3 or more OR whose
> artist matches the regex "djpretzel."

The database and playlist layers already (almost[0]) supports that. The
problem is that there isn't any UI for it.

Bug 320243[1] has a copy of the patch that Gabriel de Perthuis wrote
almost a year ago to do boolean expressions in the search box. It
shouldn't be too hard to turn this into a auto-playlist editor. Sounds
like a good plugin.


[0] we don't have regexps, but we have full boolean expressions
[1]http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320243

> One other useful feature would be to save playlists in m3u format, in
> addition to pls, since pls is not as widely supported by m3u.

As Bastien mentioned, this would be fairly easy to do. It's already been
filed as bug 316295[2], and I've made some comments on it, about how
someone would implement it.

[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316295


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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