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Chronon:
Good point, Febs.


--- Quote from: Llorean on July 27, 2007, 04:30:32 PM ---It would make more sense (to me) to allow .cfg files to include an entry for a track or playlist to launch when the .cfg is run (similar to resume, except it has to start at the beginning) and have the user launch the playlist by running the .cfg, rather than adding non-m3u functionality to m3u files. It'd have the same net effect.

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I do like that this is a more portable solution and doesn't require editing of the files.  But perhaps there's some interest in being able to combine shuffled and unshuffled playlists into new playlists.  It would seem that this could be done by reading out comments in the .m3u files, but would be problematic for the .cfg method.

Llorean:
For combining multiple playlists, why exactly aren't the "insert" and "insert shuffled" options suitable, since you have to use at least "insert" anyway?

In all honesty, if nothing's playing, you can "Insert Shuffled" a non-shuffled playlist to get shuffled playback anyway.

pixelma:
The discussion lets me doubt that it came across in my previous post so I want to state it here again:

"Insert shuffled" will generate a shuffled playlist with the entries there are when used on an  m3u(8) file - I just tried it myself again and got 2 different playlists when "inserting shuffled" with the same root.m3u8. One small minus is that, if you don't start the playlist by doing that or don't have only one file in the currently playing list left, the added songs will be mixed with the leftovers.

The only thing (if at all) desired would be to have a "insert last shuffled" option that will shuffle the files in the .m3u (or folder) but keeps them together and then add them to the playlist. Don't know if that's worth the hassle... and I agree with Llorean that we shouldn't introduce an own m3u standard which could break compatibility with other media players.

Chronon:
pixelma and Llorean, yes those methods suffice.  It seems we're quibbling over adding code for the sake of a couple of key presses.  And I also agree that Llorean's method involving .cfg files will do everything the OP wants.

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