Improve the dynamic playlists

Leo Franchi lfranchi at kde.org
Wed Jan 27 19:04:11 CET 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Dan Meltzer
<parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of my suggestions, which has been on my personal list for a long
>> time, is to extend the dynamic playlist system to work with non-sql
>> collection tracks. I mean, allow the dynamic playlists to select songs
>> from *any* collection (local songs, magnatune, ampache, mp3tunes,
>> whatever). This would allow it to *greatly increase* its ability to
>> help you discover new music, especially when put together with some of
>> the custom biases that currently exist (like the last.fm or echonest
>> similarity biases). So being able to draw tracks from say magnatune,
>> or a shared ampache server, would be awesome
>
> This is dependant on writing proper querymakers for other collections--
> outside of the dynamic playlist code itself

Sure. But it also involves dynamic playlist work. As most things,
there is work to be done in multiple places. That, however, does not
detract from it.

leo

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