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Make playlists use the database info of a song instead of its file name

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nezzled:
Hello! I would like to sync music with iTunes to use both Rockbox and the default iTunes firm, but because iTunes makes gibberish file names it would make navigating playlists annoying. Is there a way to make them use the embedded tags/database info instead of their file names? I know I can technically work around this by renaming them but I would prefer to do it the other way.

Bilgus:
the problem here is playlists are independent of the database system and looking up the tag info for each file would likely make it slow but I'll look into it

Bilgus:
Here is the first try at a patch that does this
ATM it reads every file from disk which is only when you are in the viewer OFC

https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/5807

if you let me know what device I can get you a build to try

Updated a bit:
this thing would be pretty slow with large playlists on a slow disk
in that case hopefully you are loading your database to RAM
and this will take advantage of it to speed up the access

Bilgus:
This is now in the latest dev version

Bilgus:
After optimizing this for a while and getting it working decently with on disk playlists its so terribly slow when trying to view the current playlist I might as well just remove it alltogether

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