Re: Patch submission...

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Rudy Desjardins wrote:

> Without this mod, every time you write a file you have to go and rename
> it or move it, otherwise the diskwriter plugin will overwrite it next
> time you want to record (I realize this is kind of a weird thing, since
> the diskwriter dynamically generates the filename based on what it's
> playing, however when you're recording from a 'net radio station for
> instance, you'll normally end up with the same filename for each
> station, and it will overwrite itself everytime you try to record).

While I think it makes sense to not overwrite existing files, I think it 
would be better to add a simple increasing integer at the end instead of 
always slapping on a time stamp.  A patch that does this would be nice.  
The mpg123 plugin already does this when writing http streams to file.

 - Håvard