"My Playlists" Tree Item in Browser

Hi,

I'm thinking of changing how the "My Playlists" tree item is organised in 
musicbrowsermm, and want to know if anyone has any views on what I'd like 
to do.

I'm thinking of making the item actually represent a directory that can be 
changed in the preferences. The two main reasons for this is to allow 
grouping of playlists (using sub directories), and to make it easier to 
share playlists between programs/operating systems as this would allow the 
default location of playlists to be placed somewhere other then ~/.zinf
So that you can still access playlists that aren't in the specified 
directory, My Playlists would have an extra sub-item "Other Playlists" 
that would read the list of playlists in the library.

I've put an intial implementation of this in my tla archive, 
[email protected]/zinf--mdb--0.3--patch-2
http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf/arch2004
Its currently hard coded to represent ~/.zinf

If this idea were to used, then I think the default location for playlists 
should be changed to ~/.zinf/playlists. The problem with using .zinf is 
that it has a few sub-directories that are used for other things like the 
database, etc. which would be listed in My Playlists by default, if we 
stuck with .zinf as the default directory. Obvioulsy I could filter them 
out but this is then restricting the possible names for playlists groups 
(Yes, I know its highly unlikely that anyone will want a playlist group 
called db or whatever, but its possible)

Anyway, has anyone got any objections to this, or any suggestions/ideas?

David

P.S. This is also a feature request "[ 868628 ] Configurable location for 
Playlists" by darrenm

Sorry if anyone is getting this twice, but the original I sent looks to 
have dissapeared into the great unknown

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