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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: playlists: directories randomly, linear within directoriesRe: playlists: directories randomly, linear within directories
From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 15 Mar 2003 18:40:06 +0000 On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Daniel Stenberg uttered the following: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Nix wrote: >> Since that (`recursive playlists'?) doesn't work it's unsurprising that >> there's no way to play a sub-playlist linearly within a shuffled >> super-playlist. > > If you spend some time reading the playlist code or reading about the > playlist concept, you'll soon come to understand that it might not be > something easily done. Agreed, it's not that easy :( >> Anyway, if I haven't missed a simpler way to do this, I'll go off and >> implement sub-playlists and such. > > I think I'm not the only one who's very interested in how to plan to make > this work with the existing functionality. I'm not aware of all the existing functionality; hence my question here. (`Is this sensible'...) >> Of course the playlist will have to move to being stored on the stack in >> play_list(); does this count as dynamic memory allocation? > > Well, when you've loaded the first song in that dir, the user wants to be > able to press BACK and then FORWARD again... Hm. True. We'd have to do all the recursion at once and build a bigger playlist (probably doing the shuffling at the same time); this would probably fit into the existing code more easily than would recursion of play_list(). > And, why would a specified > directory be played linearly if I have set 'shuffle' to YES? And I assume > that the second you say you can do this, people will want sub-lists that are > playlists and not directory names... You may well be right. This'll lead to a situation where *playlists* have an optional play order that takes precedence over the systemwide one, which is a bit of a bugger, because I really don't want to disrupt the nice property that playlists are just lists of filenames. Perhaps if directories contain playlists with a magic name, viz .linear.m3u -> if recursing into this directory, play this playlist linearly .shuffle.m3u -> play this playlist randomly and so on... I'm not sure how intuitive this is, though. > I like your "ok then, I'll go make this happen"-attitude. That's the kind of > spirit we need to get things happen. I'm still curious on the implementation > details... ;-) That's the interesting question, to be sure... but as I need it, so it *shall* come to pass. And since I seem to have lost my ten-thousand-mile-long bullwhip, I'll have to do it myself. :) -- #ifdef USE_ISPTS_FLAG } else { /* else pty, not pts */ #endifReceived on 2003-03-15 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |