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RE: Re: xPLMediaNet and Playlists
- Subject: RE: Re: xPLMediaNet and Playlists
- From: "Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:35:08 -0000
> My feeling is that playlists should be treated as a media
> type, just like an mpg or an mp3. After all, you can browse
> and play playlists in the same way as individual files. The
> fact that they actually point to other media files is
> irrelevant to the way the user interacts with them - handling
> a playlist (from a user perspective) is really no different
> to dealing with the chapters in a DVD movie.
That's an interesting concept, hadn't thought of it that way.
Trouble is they don't have a specific artist/album/genre etc associated
with
them so can't be integrated into the tracks table
I think I'll opt for the playlist module to scan for the files into a
database table, but not store the tracks. The playlist module will be
responsible for extracting the tracks on the fly when they are selected to
be queued
> As such, any module that requires the database - which to my
> mind should just be the media selection modules (browse, web
> interface etc), should use the same method to select a
> playlist as any other file.
> The only other part of the system that needs access to the
> database (if I understand correctly) would be the core, which
> would need to access it to obtain file locations - either to
> send in xPL commands, or for the serving of files to devices
> that require that.
Only "source" modules (and any special function modules like
pronto csf,
voice recognition) need access to the database.
All other access to the data is _thru_ the "source" modules, even
the web
interface etc will go thru the "source"'s to get the data
The only part the core plays is providing a default database connect string
to the modules (this default can be overridden at both the global and/or
module level)
Regards
Tony
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