Export playlist, dcop usage, etc.

[Bill Moseley]

Some beginner questions.

Are play lists saved in the database or as m3u files?

I'm not quite clear how best to create saved play lists.

What I did was load my entire collection into the playlist window on
the right.  Then I created a few empty playlist on the Playlists tab.

Then I went through the songs previewing them and dragging them to the
appropriate list.

Now, how do I export a play list to an m3u file?  If I "Load" one of
the save playlists and then do Playlist/Save Playlist As it will save
it to the .m3u file I specify but also then creates a listing in the
"Playlists" tree.


Also, I like the Queue feature to queue a song to play next.
If I have a filename of a song on disk is there a way via dcop to tell
Amarok to queue that file?  I want to be able to use dcop to insert a
song into the current playlist.

Finally, is there a way to tell Amarok to ignore "The " at the start
of artist's names?  "Beatles" and "The Beatles" end up sorted
differently in the playlist view.  The Collection view seems to know
that those are the same.


Thanks,



-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org