Bugzilla – Bug 1729
Enable playlists to be used as seedings for Musicmagic mixes
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
In the most recent version, MusicMagic API handles playlists (.m3u) as seedings. Incorporated in SlimServer this would enable useful features. For example seeding the now-playing list would result in function similar to the 'More like this' in de mixer-application. The 'moods' functionality could possibly be reached by seeding the user-configured moods-playlist (bug 1362).
Sorry, in the description I mentioned the "more like this" functionality. Instead I meant the "Morph Playlist" function!
slimserver has no access to the moods playlists, since they are stored in a musicmagic specified directory. Even if the moods have a standardised pattern for naming, there is no way to grab list list of names for slimserver to use. as part of the new browse playlist features, it might be possible to add a link to use each playlist as a seed. Plugins have no way of affecting the current playlist side of the web interface (yet). The plugin could add a mode in the player UI so that a user could navigate to the plugin via the remote and press play to create a mix based on the current playlist.
Do you need the names of the playlists to communicate with MusicMagic? From http://music.predixis.com/6_develop_http.html it seems that it's possible to provide the full path of a m3u-file to the API. However I'm not a programmer, so excuse me if I'm wrong ;-).
file name or playlist name. the filenames of the moods, as I have mentioned are in a musicmagic specified directory, differing per OS, and not necesarily exposed to slimserver. Using the internal name, if one exists would let musicmagic handle the complexity. wtf does everyone feel they have to argue with simple bloody notes
retitling for easier search later. will inquire with Predixis regarding mood naming.
musicmagic API takes playlist filename as a seed. so, 6.5 builds can have the server playlists found in the playlist folder used as seeds. itunes, moodlogic and musicmagic imported playlists will not work for this as they are virtual, not stored on disk, at least not where slim can see them. added to trunk at change 6520.
marking as fixed, see Changelog