Playlist organisation

[simbun]

(15-12-2024 16:10)simoncn Wrote:  Are you asking for 1) 2) and 3) to be sorted as a single list or for 1) and 2) to be sorted as a single list preceding 3)?

The use case was that he'd create a Deluxe Edition of an existing album by adding additional tracks to it from compilations/singles e.t.c. whilst keeping a copy of the original, so he'd want to see:
Album1
Album2
Album2 [Deluxe Edition] (this is a playlist)
Album3

(15-12-2024 16:10)simoncn Wrote:  It is hard to see how the sorting of 3) should be combined with the sorting of 1) and 2), given the ability for the user to customise the sorting of 3).

Agreed,3 should always be controlled separately.

(15-12-2024 16:10)simoncn Wrote:  Also, listing subfolders before playlists helps the user know which entries represent subfolders and which represent playlists.

Is there any difference from a UPnP perspective other than one being storageFolder and the other being playlistContainer, as they're both just containers for tracks? I guess the control point could treat them differently, but does the distinction concern the user? If you had folders A, B, C and playlists D, E, F then you'd never know anyway.

(15-12-2024 16:10)simoncn Wrote:  I am not sure how your suggestion of using folder view instead of the existing playlist view would work. For example, would you want to see a list of folders containing playlists with other contents of these folders shown or with other contents of these folders not shown?

The view would just contain playlists and their parent folders, so assuming a setup of:

Code:

./Beatles, The/Best Of Beatles.m3u8
./Bowie, David/Best Of David Bowie.m3u8
./Various Artists/Top Pop Tracks.m3u8
./Playlists/Grammy Awards: Album Of The Year.m3u8
./Playlists/MOJO Playlists/Best Albums of 2024.m3u8
./Playlists/Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.m3u8

The first level would look like:

Code:

Beatles, The
Bowie, David
Playlists
Various Artists

To keep things simple (for the user) I would have thought the root of the playlists (in the MinimServer presentation) should be the shared parent of all playlists, so if we excluded the top 3 playlists from the original example MinimServer would present:

Code:

Grammy Awards: Album Of The Year
MOJO Playlists
Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

I'm seeing the existing view as default with this as a configurable option.

I'm a little pressed for time at the moment but I hope that makes some sense.


EDIT: Having written them down I think I really like the browsing playlists by folder idea, but not the thought of folders and playlists being sorted together in that view