Thread: Standard playlists?

Originally Posted by mindracing

What format do the CF Playlists conform to?

They are saved as .mpl and yet when I export .mpl playlists from Media Centre they cannot be imported by CF.

Is .mpl a standard and if so does CF comply?

Can CF work with a standard playlist, either iTunes, mpl, m3u or ascii delimited?

It would be great to be able to creat playlists that work on a normal windows app and in CF. A commercial app should be able to work with data from other commercial apps; iTunes being no small player!

Personally, I would not use iTunes, however, many people do and compliance with playlists standards, IMHO, is a must.

The formats are very different:

CF:
Marilyn Manson - Tourniquet|C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Tourniquet.mp3


Media Centre: .mpl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<MPL Version="2.0">
<Item>
<Field Name="Filename">C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Tourniquet.mp3</Field>
<Field Name="Artist">Marilyn Manson</Field>
<Field Name="Album">Antichrist Superstar</Field>
<Field Name="Name">Tourniquet</Field>
<Field Name="Band">Antichrist Superstar</Field>
<Field Name="File Type">mp3</Field>
<Field Name="Genre">Rock</Field>
<Field Name="Bitrate">160</Field>
<Field Name="Media Type">Audio</Field>
<Field Name="Rating">5</Field>
<Field Name="File Size">5384192</Field>
<Field Name="Duration">269</Field>
<Field Name="Track #">4</Field>
<Field Name="Date Created">1119606130</Field>
<Field Name="Date Modified">1107633568</Field>
<Field Name="Date Imported">1119606884</Field>
<Field Name="Replay Gain">-14.311590000000001</Field>
<Field Name="Peak Level">1</Field>
<Field Name="Intensity">4</Field>
<Field Name="BPM">88</Field>
<Field Name="Lyrics">She's Made Of Hair And Bone And Little Teeth
And Things I Cannot Speak
She Comes On Like A Crippled Plaything
Spine Is Just A String
I Wrapped Our Love In All This Foil
Silver-tight Like Spider Legs
I Never Wanted It To Ever Spoil
But Flies Will Lay Their Eggs
Take Your Hatred Out On Me
Make Your Victim My Head
You Never Ever Believed In Me
I Am Your Tourniquet
Prosthetic Synthesis With Butterfly
Sealed Up With Virgin Stitch
If It Hurts Baby Please Tell Me
Preserve The Innocence
I Never Wanted It To End Like This,
But Flies Will Lay Their Eggs
Take Your Hatred Out On Me
Make Your Victim My Head
You Never Ever Believed In Me
I Am Your Tourniquet
Take Your Hatred Out On Me
Make Your Victim My Head
You Never Ever Believed In Me
I Am Your Tourniquet
I Never Ever Believed In Me
I Am Your Tourniquet</Field>
<Field Name="Album Gain">-12.833404541015625</Field>
<Field Name="Sample Rate">44100</Field>
<Field Name="Channels">2</Field>
<Field Name="Bit Depth">16</Field>
<Field Name="Compression">CBR (MPEG-1 Layer 3)</Field>
</Item>
</MPL>

Media Centre .m3u:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Tourniquet.mp3

Mediac Centre ascii delimited:
|Seq|Name|Artist|Album|Rating|Genre|Track #|Duration|Bitrate|File Type|Date|Filename|
|1|Tourniquet|Marilyn Manson|Antichrist Superstar|5|Rock|4|4:29|160|mp3||C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Tourniquet.mp3|

iTunes
Name Artist Composer Album Grouping Genre Size Time Disc Number Disc Count Track Number Track Count Year Date Modified Date Added Bit Rate Sample Rate Volume Adjustment Kind Equalizer Comments Play Count Last Played My Rating Location
Tourniquet Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar Rock 5384192 269 4 05/02/2005 19:59 29/07/2005 08:49 160 44100 MPEG audio file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\Tourniquet.mp3

the format I use is my own, no standard... I didn't realize there was another playlist using the same extension... I plan to support standard playlist formats... just isn't implemented yet...

david

When you start looking into playlists, could you also consider the location of the playlists.

I don´t have the best solution but I think it would be better to support a playlist solution that other (non-car-pc) players can also use, so you don´t have to make individual playlists for the car and for your house. I think most people use the same music collection both places and then keep them in sync.


So maybe others could pitch in here, what kind of players do you use at home, and how should the playlists solution be to work with both CF and the home-player?

Originally Posted by SOS

When you start looking into playlists, could you also consider the location of the playlists.

I don´t have the best solution but I think it would be better to support a playlist solution that other (non-car-pc) players can also use, so you don´t have to make individual playlists for the car and for your house. I think most people use the same music collection both places and then keep them in sync.


So maybe others could pitch in here, what kind of players do you use at home, and how should the playlists solution be to work with both CF and the home-player?

I use Media Center for home. IMHO the finest there is.

I sync my libray to my Car PC. Media Center can also see another PC as a device and sync both the library and it's playlists.

If CF supported the same playlist it would be excellent and make playlist management easy.

I second the request for MC playlists

/p

I use MCE myself... I will look into this for sure... I have also played with the idea of writing an MCE plugin that syncs, connects, and helps manage centrafuse in the car...

david

Veetid:

What is the advantage of having your own propietary playlist format? (Just out of curiousity, i'm not much of a programmer)

OH and why do you guys like that jmediacenter so much? I've never even heard of it. Then again 'ive been using WinAMP 2.95 since like 2000.

Originally Posted by veetid

I use MCE myself... I will look into this for sure... I have also played with the idea of writing an MCE plugin that syncs, connects, and helps manage centrafuse in the car...

david

Now that would be awesome.

I've been using MC since MC9.

If you haven't tried it give it a go. Takes a while to fully appreciate everything it's capable of. When you do you won't go back to any other player. Syncs to everything, plays everything, organises everything.

hmmmm...I'm gonna give it a download..Maybe i'll have a chance to play with it sometime

I made a script to convert m3u playlists for the mean time
Here is A script to Convert a M3u Playlist into a CF Playlist