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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: ignoring paths when playingg from playlistsRe: ignoring paths when playingg from playlists
From: Rich <rmarotti_at_thomasaquinas.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:14:25 -0800 (PST) The perl script sounds like an efficient solution, only i'm just a humble music addict and not a programmer, anyone know if such a script exists? Anyone want to write one? rich marotti "I'm a python of productivity." On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Brian King wrote: > Why not just use relative directories in your playlists? Do the freeware > programs that people use to create playlists not have the ability to do > this? I agree that something like this should be configurable if it were > to be implemented because it is not a behavior I would want. One could > always write a short perl script that walked your mp3 directory > structure and converted all your playlists to use relative paths... > > -Brian > > > > Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: > > Rich wrote: > > > >> Forgive me if people have bitched about this already. Playlists generated > >> by several programs on my computer (MMJB and a few other freeware progs) > >> include path information eg: c:\music\artist\album\#at.mp3. > > > > > > Yes they do, and it is silly, forcing you to recreate the playlist > > whenever you move around the music directory. > > > > Personally, I find it really unnecessary for Rockbox to handle playlist > > with an obviously wrong path to the files. How hard is it to create a > > playlist which reflects the true contents of the hard drive? > > > > On the other hand, it wouldn't be that hard for Rockbox to shorten the > > path and retry. This approach will introduce other interesting problems, > > when it may find the wrong song (with the same name but in a different > > directory) if a file couldn't be found. I don't want this feature if it > > isn't configurable. > > > > Takers? > > > > /Linus > > > > > > > Received on 2003-01-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |