Re: "My Playlists" Tree Item in Browser

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:58, David Hough wrote:
> 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?


I don't immediately see the benefit of having 
two items Playlist and Other Paylists.   I agree that the location of
zinf created playlists should be configurable.  In fact, I like to keep
my playlists in the same directories hiearchy with the rest of my music.
That said, I would rather see just Playlists that includes all playlists
that zinf knows about. 

The feature of nested directories of playlists is interesting and
has some cross-over features with our previously discussed 
nested playlists.  What would it mean to double click the 
top level playlist directory?  Add all songs from all playlists
to the current playing playlist?


> 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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