Auto-saved playlists (m3u lists)

[Bart Cerneels]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM, John Hendrikx <hjohn at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if Amarok (or any other player) offers the feature where
> playlists are treated as lists of tracks that can be edited without
> having to resave the list each time.
>
> There's .m3u files, but when I select one, and edit the list Amarok
> presents it does not save the list again to the .m3u file
> automatically.  When I'm for example listening to "relaxing" music, and
> I find that one of the tracks is not quite what I wanted, I want to
> remove it and have Amarok update the list.  The same thing when I'm
> expanding the list.
>
> In other words, I'd want playlists to be more dynamic (or atleast easier
> to save -- currently all I can find is a "save as" option which forces
> me to select the correct list again).  Ideally, when a playlist is
> selected, the title of the list is displayed above the list of tracks
> somewhere so I know which list I'm editing.
>
> Amarok offers other types of playlists, but no playlists that are simply
> directly editable (while they're being played) and auto-saved when changed.

revision 969183 allows you to edit saved playlists by dragging tracks onto it.

>
> I don't know of any player that offers this feature :/
>
> --John