Happy Birthday, MinimServer!

[simoncn]

(03-02-2013 20:37)Manul Wrote:  I'm a bit late to the party, having just discovered MinimServer in the last couple of days while looking for an audio server to put on my new NAS, but I'd like to join in congratulating MinimServer on it's first and obviously very successful year and also in thanking Simon for giving us this nice piece of software: Thank you, Simon! Happy Birthday, MinimServer!

Regarding iTunes playlists: These can be quite easily parsed from the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file. I wrote a ~30 line python script to do that and output them as m3u files just yesterday which I'd happily share - it should be doable just as easy in Java as well, I guess. One possible solution would be to add m3u support to MinimServer and either leave it to the user to regularly run a tool like this or build one into MinimServer. Please let me know if I can lend a hand in anything.

Thanks very much!

I'm impressed that you could parse the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file and export .m3u playlists in only 30 lines of code.

I'm hoping to add support to MinimServer for .m3u playlists soon. As well as your Python script, it seems that iTunes has the capability to export playlists to .m3u files (see this page). This .m3u approach could provide a first step towards making iTunes and MinimServer work together.