Playlist / M3U

[simoncn]

(17-09-2012 17:14)JoeBroesel Wrote:  Hi Simon,
I would even create the "playlists" myself - simple ascii-files with the paths to the files to be played.
The files relativ to where the folder the playlist file is located.

"Sinfonie Nr. 1/Bernard Haitink 1960/1. Satz.flac"
"Sinfonie Nr. 1/Bernard Haitink 1960/2. Satz.flac"
"Sinfonie Nr. 1/Bernard Haitink 1960/3. Satz.flac"
"Sinfonie Nr. 2/Bernard Haitink 1961/1. Satz.flac"
"Sinfonie Nr. 2/Bernard Haitink 1961/2. Satz.flac"
"Sinfonie Nr. 2/Bernard Haitink 1961/3. Satz.flac"
...

or
'name to be shown in control point'
'Sinfonie Nr. 1/Bernard Haitink 1960/*'
'Sinfonie Nr. 2/Bernard Haitink 1961/*'

If necessary I would write a small programm to simply create "playlist-Files" like this.
Then I would be independent of control-points - as Minimserver would do everything needed.

J.

I don't understand why you think this would be independent of control points. MinimServer can't play anything; it can only send information to control points for selection and playing. The UPnP specifications define how servers send playlist information to control points, and MinimServer needs to conform to these specifications so that UPnP control points can interpret the playlist information correctly.

Also, when MinimServer adds supports for playlists, it will support existing standard formats for playlists such as .m3u and .pls files. It won't create a new nonstandard ASCII playlist format.