------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29368 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: What do playlists mean to you? - Never or very rarely use them - Not a big problem: use static playlists for parties or similar, current features ok - Use static playlists a lot, would like to see better features for managing them - Want smart or dynamic playlists. iTunes integration and/or plugins usable (but could be better!). - Smart or dynamic playlists are very important, current options not good enough, must be improved - Critical: Playlist handling must be improved or I'm out of here ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ken;153743 Wrote: > Inspired by this debate I took a quick look at Erland's plug in site. > I'm no wiser as to what it does and how or what I have to install.I know this > isn't the correct thread to have a discussion, but I thought it might be a good idea to list the existing third party plugins related to smart playlists: Included with slimserver: ========================= - *iTunes* (Makes it possible to use iTunes smart playlists in slimserver and also to import ratings from iTunes) - *MusicMagic* (Makes it possible to create smart mixes based on selected artist, album, track and also to import ratings from MusicMagic/MusicIP) - *MoodLogic* (Makes it possible to create smart mixes based on selected artist, album, track, I'm not sure if it also imports ratings from MoodLogic) - *RandomMix* (Makes it possible to play random tracks, albums, artists in one or several selected genres) Not included with slimserver ============================ - *iTunes Update* (Makes it possible to export play counts, played time, ratings from slimserver to iTunes, makes it also possible to rate tracks in slimserver. A "must have" if iTunes smart playlists shall be recalculated based on played songs in slimserver.) - *iTunes Party Shuffle* (Makes it possible to create a Party Shuffle playlist from iTunes) - *Dynamic Playlist* (A stupid plugin that does nothing by itself but makes it easier for other plugins to implement dynamic playlists and also collects all playlists beneath a single menu) - *TrackStat* (Makes it possible to rate songs on SqueezeBox and implements a persistent storage of statistic data such as play counts, played time, ratings that survives slimserver rescans. Also implements export/import from/to iTunes/MusicMagic if they are running on a different machine/OS than slimserver. Sends rating dynamically to MusicMagic when songs are rated in slimserver. TrackStat also makes a lot of predefined smart playlists based on statistics available through DynamicPlayList) - *SQLPlayList* (Makes it possible to create smart playlists directly in slimserver without any external software besides plugins, the playlists are created with a wizard and generates SQL code that can be edited manually) - *RandomPlayList* (Very similar to RandomMix, the main difference is that it supports to also exclude genres and makes its playlists available through the DynamicPlayList plugin) I have probably missed some plugin not mentioned above so don't see this as the complete list. Besides the plugins mentioned above there are also a number of playlist related internet radio plugins and some search/browse plugins available. There are also several plugins that are related to management of static playlists. See the plugin page for more information: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerPlugins We probably don't want this thread to turn into a thread full of questions about how to use the plugins, so please post questions related to plugin usage in the "3rd party plugins" section instead. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29368 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
