Playlist / M3U

[simoncn]

(16-09-2012 10:05)JoeBroesel Wrote:  Hi Simon,
is it possible to think of the following playlist scenario:
In the folder structure there is a tree "Beethoven", and under that other folders like "Symphonies", "Piano Concertos" etc.
Under "Symphonies" there are different trees like "1. Symphony", "2. Symphony" etc.
And in the next level there are the several Conductors "Karajan 1950 Berliner", "Solti 1960 London..." etc.

Now I would like to place several playlists in the level "Symphonies", for all symphonies by Karajan, then another playlist for all symphonies by Solti etc.
The playlist for Karajan would then have the entries for symphony 1 to 9.

By browsing by folder in Minimserver in the level of the Beethoven symphonies: Here it would be best for me to see this playlist, maybe not even as a playlist but
as another "folder", or any other way a Control Point could do anything with it.

I hope this is understandable. Does it make sense?

J.

It is understandable, and does make sense. The UPnP specification provides two kinds of playlist representation: a PlaylistItem, which is used by the control point to play the entire playlist contents in a fixed order, and a PlaylistContainer, which is more like an album container.

I haven't done any work on playlist support yet, and I don't know how the various UPnP control points handle PlaylistItem and PlaylistContainer. From your description, it sounds like you want to be able to create a PlaylistContainer that's embedded in the folder hierarchy. I would need to investigate how this is handled by control points before I decide what support to provide in MinimServer.