problem with playlists, filename and songtitle

	I hacked around the playlist title/filename bug in response to the
question about "title concept" that I quoted from the list. The code
that I included resides in a file I called "playlist.title-fix.c" in my
own patchwork. The current playlist code always converts the displayed
song name to filename, even when the playlist supplies the title. I have
changed my installed code to work, at the expense of streaming titles. I
would like to package my changes in a playlist plugin, which would
override the default playlist window. I don't see how the current API
supports that, but I could factor the 1.2.8 code to implement such an
API. My code could just "plug in", without hassling the core development
team. From what I gather, a half-dozen other posters to this list with
playlist revisions might also take advantage of that plugin type.


> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 
> > > Does XMMS have the concept that the title of a song can be different from> > its file name? Particularly for non-mp3 files?
> Yes, the plugin can return whatever it wants.  Most plugins will return 
> filename if they have no other title.
> 
> > 	There is a bug in playlist.title-fix.c::playlist_set_info() that> always updates the playlist display with the filename, even when title> data is specified in a playlist.
> There is no file called playlist.title-fix.c in xmms, but yes, this would 
> break the function completely. 
> 
> Are you talking about title that is in the m3u playlist?  xmms will always
> prefer whatever the plugin returns over what has been specified in the m3u
> playlist, it only gets a string, it has no way to know what is "better".
> 
>  - Håvard
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