Re: Re: xPLMediaNet and Playlists

["Malcolm Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:35 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] Re: xPLMediaNet and Playlists


>
>> 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

My own use is getting in the way of my thinking again - the only playlists
I
have ones for each album, so they do have genre and artist.  I very rarely
make a custom playlist.  Obviously those don't have artists or genre as you
say.

>
> 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
>

I don't understand this (although I'm probably just being a bit thick
again) - what do you mean by "not store the tracks" and
"extracting the
tracks"?

Mal



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