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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

I've created a right click app to help in the making of a play list.
Forum member stu90 helped with the 'find' code.

The concept is simple. Quickly make an m3u file. Then make
a pmusic playlist from the m3u file. The instructions are on site.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=641955#641955

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

Note to Zigbert:

When I wrote create-m3u I was hoping that I could do the entire process
of making a Pmusic playlist in one simple step.

Is that possible??

I wrote the script so that it would be easy to modify the script
by removing the exit command and adding code at end of script
to convert the m3u file located in /root to a pmusic playlist.

Wouldn't it be easy for you to write the code. Just check for
blank playlists and add the song titles to a blank list. Is it more
difficult than that??

..and when pmusic is first installed or launched shouldn't it create all
the playlist files in the hidden config folder. That way it would
be easy to determine if a playlist is blank or not. All I see now
are playlists that have been previously created.

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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

don570
I don't exactly understand what you mean I should do. What do you need blank playlists for? I will consider all patches to meet your request. If you need specific knowledge, I will share what I know...

I must admit, I haven't looked at your code and not tested the m3u-creator. I use the builtin browser in pmusic to build my playlists, but it is clear that others like it to do it other ways.

Sigmund

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

I need to 'see' a playlist to check if it is empty or if it's easier for you
----> make a configuration file in root/.pmusic that lists the playlists
that are unused by user. Then there would have to be a way for
an independent program to build a pmusic playlist and get pmusic
to recognize it when launching.

Another idea ---> Perhaps you could put a folder
in /root/.pmusic called Third_party_playlists where any
independent program could put a pmusic playlist and pmusic
would (at launch) recognize the playlist and try to show it in the
window and begin playing it if there are still empty pmusic playlist slots available.

I don't understand how pmusic works (Isn't it obvious? Laughing

)
so you'll have to design a procedure to allow the adding of playlist
and document it. The idea is to do the work behind the
scenes so the user needs to interact as little as possible.

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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 2.6.4
See main post

Changelog
- Bugfix: There is 2 LOC2913 (thanks to esmourguit)
- Bugfix: Minor alignment in pmusic --help
- Bugfix: Radiohits: When choosing an predefined preset, check if 'download dir' is saved.
- NLS: Added: LOC2914
- NLS: Changed: LOC302, 617

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

I think I found a bug or is it a feature?

The situation: the name of a m3u playlist has an underscore in it
and there's only one song on the list.

I use the following command to bring the song(s) into pmusic....

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

I tried to reproduce this by making my own /root/pmu_sic.m3u (with one track), but things worked as expected. Could you list the content of the m3u.

My looks like this

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 287 Location: Philadelphia, PA

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

I found the problem in create-m3u. The format of the m3u file is important
when loading with a script.
I followed stu90's method of putting both name followed by
the entire path and now there is no problem.
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There are still some bugs but it mostly works
when I tried it in Lucid Puppy528 (JP) pmusic 2.6.2
Try http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=643997#643997

However I did find a strange bug in pmusic.

If the m3u file that is loaded is deleted directly afterwards
then pmusic won't load the playlist . So code like this
won't work properly, but it was easy enough to
work around.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario

I discovered that the other music players that puppy uses
can open m3u playlists as well, so I made some changes
in version 1.3.

However one problem left ---> pmusic will play the
playlist in background but sometimes it doesn't launch it's window.

The other music players don't have this problem.

Will you look into this inconsistent behaviour.???

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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2465 Location: Ontario