And I suggest try amarok I'm realy enjoy using it... and the pluggin of kxdocker...
On 1/11/06, Chris DiVirgilio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Craig Hagerman wrote: > > > On 1/11/06, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> incredibly slow starting up (because I have so much music). I > >>> usually > >>> use xmms, but for some reason when I create and save a playlist it > >>> won't open in xmms afterwards anyway (wants to open in rhythm box!?) > >> > >> That certainly can be adjusted in the file manager you are using. > >> Which one is that? Or how do you open a playlist? > >> > > > > I'm using Gnome. When I double click on the playlist it opens > > rhythmbox. If I right click and chose xmms it opens and does nothing. > > If it open xmms and chose the playlist it does nothing. hmmm... > > strange, no? > > > > Anyway, this is not an optimal situation for me. I have spent ages > > making playlists in iTunes (which I don't think can be exported to > > xmms) and I would really like to find a way to use iTunes via > > crossover office or wine. <crossed fingers> > > This might not necessarily be ideal, but here's a tool to convert > iTunes playlists to .m3u for xmms: > > http://chimpen.com/itunes2m3u/convert.php > > The web-interface will, of course, be cumbersome if you have as many > playlists as you claim, but if you have access to a Windows machine, > the author has created a native Windows app to do the same thing. > The up front time spent converting playlists might be less of a > hassle than getting iTunes to work in wine (not to mention the > overhead associated with running your jukebox in an emulator - OK, > Wine Is Not an Emulator, but there's still overhead associated with it). > > Here's an AppleScript do it from iTunes: > > http://homepage.mac.com/beryrinaldo/AudioTron/Export_Playlist_to_M3U/ > > The problem with the above solutions is that iTunes stores file > location relative to the system root. This path will include / > Volumes/<your NFS share>/... You would need to go through and change > the paths. > > > Finally, iTunes allows you to export playlists as text or xml. m3u > is a very simple (text) file format. An m3u file looks like this: > > #EXTM3U > #EXTINF: 185,Artist - Title > music/artist/album/title.mp3 > > The first line indicates that the file is an m3u playlist. The next > two lines are a pair representing a song and are repeated for each > song in the playlist. In the first line of the pair, 185 is the > length of the song in seconds. Artist - Title is self-explanatory; > usually this comes from the ID3 tag. The second line of the pair is > the path to the file, either relative to the playlist file or the > system root. > > All of this information can easily be parsed out of the xml or text > playlist files exported by iTunes. Be careful - if you export the > iTunes playlists to xml, the track time is in milliseconds; you'll > have to convert to seconds. If you export to text, the track times > are already in seconds. > > With this approach, you can simply export all your playlists to a > directory and write a script to loop through the files in the > directory converting each one. > > Again, it's not the answer you asked for, but it might help. > > - Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Engañarse por amor es el engaño más terrible; es una pérdida eterna para la que no hay compensación ni en el tiempo ni en la eternidad. Kierkegaard Jaime Ochoa Malagón Integrated Technology Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10