Playlist Manager version 6.0 released

[Philip Meyer]

For all those people that have been pestering me to release a version that works with SBS 6.0, I've just uploaded Playlist Manager version 6.0.

The plugin should be available through SBS Plugin download manager, or available for manual install from my website (http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music...tManPlugin.htm).

This version is mainly to add support for SBS 6.0 and greater, but also contains some minor changes, including:

- Fixed some existing problems with exiting the Save Playlist and Add to New Playlist menu actions for ip3k players.
- More consistent with where the user is returned to when exiting menus across all types of players.
- Better support for adding Remote tracks/playlists to playlists.
- Cleaned up some log messages.

I've tested with SBS 7.5.6 and SBS 7.6 latest nightly (7.6.2 trunk revision 33231).

Many thanks to Kurt Poulsen who helped with beta testing, esp. on a Squeezebox Controller.

Phil

[erland]

Philip, I get 404 errors when trying to access your web site.

[Mnyb]

For all those people that have been pestering me to release a version that works with SBS 6.0, I've just uploaded Playlist Manager version 6.0.

The plugin should be available through SBS Plugin download manager, or available for manual install from my website (http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music...tManPlugin.htm).

This version is mainly to add support for SBS 6.0 and greater, but also contains some minor changes, including:

- Fixed some existing problems with exiting the Save Playlist and Add to New Playlist menu actions for ip3k players.
- More consistent with where the user is returned to when exiting menus across all types of players.
- Better support for adding Remote tracks/playlists to playlists.
- Cleaned up some log messages.

I've tested with SBS 7.5.6 and SBS 7.6 latest nightly (7.6.2 trunk revision 33231).

Many thanks to Kurt Poulsen who helped with beta testing, esp. on a Squeezebox Controller.

Phil

Good!

I'll try later this week, must go away on business , do you have donations setup somewhere

[Philip Meyer]

>I'll try later this week, must go away on business , do you have
>donations setup somewhere

May people have requested this over the years. As I'm so busy with my day job, I can't always commit to supporting the plugin with a rapid turnaround.

I didn't want to ask for money for something that I considered/hoped would be part of the SBS software, but as this looks increasingly unlikely, I have extended and continue to extend the plugin to do more.

So, through popular demand, I've added a PayPal donation link on the plugin page.

http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music...tManPlugin.htm

But above all else, I'm glad that others find it useful, and positive feedback is great to hear!

Phil

[Mnyb]

>I'll try later this week, must go away on business , do you have
>donations setup somewhere

May people have requested this over the years. As I'm so busy with my day job, I can't always commit to supporting the plugin with a rapid turnaround.

I didn't want to ask for money for something that I considered/hoped would be part of the SBS software, but as this looks increasingly unlikely, I have extended and continue to extend the plugin to do more.

So, through popular demand, I've added a PayPal donation link on the plugin page.

http://www.hergest.demon.co.uk/Music...tManPlugin.htm

But above all else, I'm glad that others find it useful, and positive feedback is great to hear!

Phil

This plugin and many other functions should be standard features imho :-)
Speaking of a "standard feature" can i create a playlist without having any particular player chosen ?
Thats a limitation of sbs , that you have to save a playlist from the np list of a player.
You don't actually have to listen but you will "occupy" a player while making a playlist.

You plugin is great because when I have an existing playlist I can add to it without disturbing anything else.

Is a to simple idea to somehow create a "dummy player" in sbs that does not output anything it could be named " playlist" or similar.

I have used softsqueeze on my pc to do this before. i could ofcourse install squeezeslave on the server, but a real player uses system resources.

The idea is that all players are bussy probaly synced, and now you want to compose another playlist without breaking playback.

[Philip Meyer]

>The idea is that all players are bussy probaly synced, and now you want
>to compose another playlist without breaking playback.

What I think you are requesting is already possible through the plugin.

i.e. You can browse to a song/album (within current playlist, or using any normal browse menu) and Add To... > New Playlist. Then add more songs/albums to that playlist, on any player without touching what is currently playing.

[Mnyb]

>The idea is that all players are bussy probaly synced, and now you want
>to compose another playlist without breaking playback.

What I think you are requesting is already possible through the plugin.

i.e. You can browse to a song/album (within current playlist, or using any normal browse menu) and Add To... > New Playlist. Then add more songs/albums to that playlist, on any player without touching what is currently playing.

i'll try later this week thanks, I was also thinking about the web-UI I'll experiment some more then.
Also the posibilities to rearange list, but I have no acess to my server rigth now so I must figure out whats happening before wasting more electrons.

[Philip Meyer]

That's annoying - it appears that my ISP's web hosting service has gone done down. Being a bank holiday, they seem to be slow investigating the fault too :-(

It's not the plugin - many people downloaded it yesterday (over 100, if the website stats are to be trusted), and several people emailed to tell me it was now working perfectly in 6.1.

Phil

[Philip Meyer]

>That's annoying - it appears that my ISP's web hosting service has gone done down.
Appears to be back again now. Anyone still having problems getting the plugin to download?

[DecTenToo]

Hi, it's now working for me ...

--
Richard

Speed is n0 subsitute fnor accurancy


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Subject: Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Playlist Manager version 6.0 released

>That's annoying - it appears that my ISP's web hosting service has gone
done down.
Appears to be back again now. Anyone still having problems getting the
plugin to download?