Re: Code confusion...playlists

Ok, I'm a little confused.

Goal: I'm successfully grabbing artist/title info from the
remote

live365 stream from within
Playlist.pm now, and I want to display

it on the SliMP3.

Problem: If I brute-force it (i.e., if I just call

SliMP3::VFD::vfdUpdate), the data is displayed and the

immediately replaced by the "Now playing (1 of 1)/title"

display.

Confusion: I understand that the display above is handled by
the

showPlayList() sub in Playlist.pm, but what I'm not understanding

is
how/where it decides what to display on the 2nd line.

After looking over the code a bit, it would seem to display

whatever's in the $client->playlist as indexed by

$client->currentsong, but attempting to create a playlist

containing the
appropriate data and pointing to it fails.

Specifically, it assumes I've scrolled, and goes and calls things
like

isFile() and such.

This control goes through SliMP3::Playlist::executecommand(), you
could use:

SliMP3::Playlist::executecommand($client,"playlist",
"play", $thepathorurlyouwishtoplay);

then use:

SliMP3::Playlist::showPlaylist($client);

to update the display.

Right now the metadata is either extracted from the file (in the
case of a local file path or file: URL) or from the path (in the case
of an HTTP url.)

Problem is, that you want to have metadata that's gathered
separately and cached.

Sean and I have talked about a metadata cache (to speed up HTTP
serving), and this would help you out too. Wanna go ahead and
add it? Otherwise, stub out your metadata somewhere obvious and
I'll hook it into the cache when I get to it.

I'm in the middle of tweaking the buttons per our discussions, so
it'll have to wait a little bit.