Playlist Manager version 6.0 released

**bluegaspode** · 2011-10-02, 10:15

OK - actually it's all other menu-items too, not only the 'Other ...' one.

Attached my proposed patch (full Plugin.pm and patch file).

Essentially it is only using the 'do' command for actual commands (like adding something to a playlist) and 'go' command for item that have a submenu now.

**Philip Meyer** · 2011-10-03, 11:59

Sorry, busy at work for the next week - I'll follow this up ASAP when I'm back to normal.

Phil

**tuc** · 2011-10-05, 05:16

Hi there,

I hope this is the right place to post this question.

I often find myself wanting to listen to a playlist I put together a couple of days ago (which I, at that time, couldn't be asked to create a named playlist for).

So far I know of no plugin that provides "playlist history" i.e. a list of recently used "active playlists". I am not necessarily talking about a history of named/defined playlist, but merely a list of playlists that have been "active" a given player recently.

I hope this makes sense.

I realise it is not straight forward to define what a "recent active playlist" is, since adding an album or a song to an active playlist could be interpreted as either 1) a new list or 2) a modification (i.e. no new list). But I am sure this can be defined in some reasonable (perhaps configurable) way.

Does this functionality exist anywhere?
Anyone besides me that would think this would be useful?

Best
-thomas

**Philip Meyer** · 2011-10-05, 14:25

>Does this functionality exist anywhere?
>
I think there was a plugin to remember the last <n> playlists per player, but that was a long time ago. Probably not working now.

Instead, perhaps Erland's plugins could get somewhere close to what you are looking for?
Using TrackStat, it is possible to see a list tracks, albums, genres, etc, ordered by last played. Using SQLPlaylist, you could make a custom query to list albums/songs played in the last day, etc.

**tuc** · 2011-10-06, 12:57

Looks like you are right. Great! Thanks.
Now I have to think a bit myself how to do it which is always a worry :-)

Originally Posted by Philip Meyer

>Does this functionality exist anywhere?
>
I think there was a plugin to remember the last <n> playlists per player, but that was a long time ago. Probably not working now.

Instead, perhaps Erland's plugins could get somewhere close to what you are looking for?
Using TrackStat, it is possible to see a list tracks, albums, genres, etc, ordered by last played. Using SQLPlaylist, you could make a custom query to list albums/songs played in the last day, etc.

**Philip Meyer** · 2011-10-09, 02:47

>I think it is wrong to have a mapping for the 'play' and 'add' button
>here, as a submenu follows and the play command typically does not
>drill down into a menu.
>
>Any chance, that this menu item can be mapped just with a 'go' command,
>like it is common for all non-playable menu-items?
>
I was trying to make the plugin work consistently like other menus. In the SB2/3 days, it was common for Play IR button to work the same as Right-arrow to drill into a menu. This can be seen in many menus, eg. in SoftSqueeze, you can use play to go into Settings, and from there Play can be used to go into Information.

However, in 7.7, it does seem more inconsistent now. eg. in Settings > Information, if I press Play on Server Settings, it goes to the Now Playing screen.

So I agree. In my plugin, I'll make Play do nothing on menu items, as right-arrow should be used.

What about the Add action? Does that matter to SqueezePad? I wonder if I should disable that action consistently too?

Phil

**MeSue** · 2012-01-06, 21:43

Hi Phil,

I was wondering if you had any interest in making Playlist Manager work for tracks from Rhapsody (and other services--but my interest is Rhapsody)? Currently the "Add to..." menu only appears for local tracks, but it would be awesome if we could use the plugin to build playlists containing both local and streaming tracks.

**Philip Meyer** · 2012-01-07, 03:10

>I was wondering if you had any interest in making Playlist Manager work
>for tracks from Rhapsody (and other services--but my interest is
>Rhapsody)? Currently the "Add to..." menu only appears for local
>tracks, but it would be awesome if we could use the plugin to build
>playlists containing both local and streaming tracks.
>
Playlist Manager supports Remote Tracks and Remote Playlists. I don't know how Rhapsody tracks appear in a playlist, if they are not remote tracks.

I haven't used Rhapsody - don't think it's available in UK.

It's possibly an easy tweak to the plugin code, but I won't be able to test it. If you're willing to try a beta version for me, I can post it to you (manual install).

Phil

**MeSue** · 2012-01-07, 08:53

Sure, I can test a beta version. In a saved playlist, the Rhapsody tracks look like: rhapd://Tra.2034444.mp3. I guess the main problem is that I don't get "Add to.." in the context menu for Rhapsody tracks.

**Philip Meyer** · 2012-01-08, 03:25

>I guess the main problem is
>that I don't get "Add to.." in the context menu for Rhapsody tracks.
Oh. Then it might be harder :-( I don't know if it is possible to register custom menu stuff in the rhapsody menu.

I notice that with CustomBrowse's "Override standard track details" enabled, it isn't possible to get into the "standard song info" for a rhapsody track, so I guess no other plugin has managed to integrate with custom protocol handlers.

I think the problem is integrating with the context menu actions, and if you could get to the Add To actions, they would work.

I had a play using SoftSqueeze, and it appears possible to add a Rhapsody track from the current playlist to another playlist using the IR Remote, but it didn't pick up the track title for the playlist entry (entries appear blank).

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