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chrisjj:
Apropos


--- Quote from: bluebrother on January 05, 2014, 05:06:55 PM ---a lot of developers consider Rockbox pretty much feature complete
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does RB yet show track titles in (EDIT:) M3U playlists? This fairly basic feature is standard in all the DAPs' manufacture firmware I've seen for the last ten or so years, but I cannot find it in RB.

saratoga:
I think playlists generated dynamically from the database can do this though, since the tags are parsed and stored in the DB you don't need to read the tags. 

From M3U would be hard though, I guess you'd have to check and see if the tags were in the database and show them.  Not sure if anyone has looked at that. 

chrisjj:

--- Quote from: saratoga on January 06, 2014, 06:45:44 PM ---I think playlists generated dynamically from the database can do this though
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I was thinking of file playlists e.g. M3U. Sorry not to say. I have edited the original message to clarify.


--- Quote from: saratoga on January 06, 2014, 06:45:44 PM ---From M3U would be hard though, I guess you'd have to check and see if the tags were in the database and show them.
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I think you'd only need to read the tags from the files, with caching.


--- Quote from: saratoga on January 06, 2014, 06:45:44 PM ---Not sure if anyone has looked at that.
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I find this was implemented for RB in 2006. But apparently not officially adopted. I wonder why. From what remains of it (which sadly does not include the code - in SourceForge), it looked good.

saratoga:
You can't read them from the files because the tags aren't necessarily available until the file is about to be decoded (because the current file may be large enough to occupy all available buffer memory preventing reading of the next file). 

chrisjj:
An app can read the tag without reading the entire file.

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