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Offline fredex

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does this playlist feature exist?
« on: October 26, 2017, 10:32:07 PM »
It would be great if one playlist could reference another, i.e., playlist A plays stuff, invokes playlist B to play other things, after that we revert to playlist A, where we left off.

As far as I can tell, there is no such feature, but I figured I'd better ask.

thanks in advance!

PS:
I forgot to mention, version 3.14 on a Clip Zip. I generate my playlists (while the player is connected to Linux via USB) using a shellscript named make-m3u (found it somewhere online, modified it slightly), which creates m3u8 files. Just in case the answer to my question depends on how the lists are created.
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Offline fredex

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Re: does this playlist feature exist?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2017, 08:57:40 PM »
What, nobody has any clue? Surely some of the developers would know if it exists or not.

I'd sure find it useful if it did.

Any takers?

thanks in advance!

Fred
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Offline Polkabong

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Re: does this playlist feature exist?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2018, 04:13:25 AM »
Hey Fredex,

Great question. I am interested in this too. If anything, I'm sure this little feature will be useful to a lot of us.

Let's see what the dev team can do.
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Offline johnb

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Re: does this playlist feature exist?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2018, 04:53:48 AM »
I guess you are right, it doesn't exist and you are welcome to implement it ...

If you are on Linux anyway, a script to simply flatten the hieararchy into a single playlist should not be hard to do.
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Offline Frankenpod

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Re: does this playlist feature exist?
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2018, 01:06:52 PM »
You can sort-of do this dynamically, no?  Just navigate to the playlist you want to insert in the current playlist, and long-press select to queue or insert it.  Then I suppose you could save that new composite playlist as a new playlist.  Not quite as concise as having a playlist refer to the other playlist, but does it not achieve the same result?
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