Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: >> >>> If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, >>> I guess that >>> this would work with pretty much all players: >>> find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u >>> $PLAYER music-list.m3u >>> >> One shortcoming of this way is that you might need a expert shell script >> to update the lists containing the file, plus that filename handling >> needs some work with shell scripts. >> > Actually though *_IF_* the $PLAYER doesn't choke on the lines representing each > directory itself being included with the list of the music files within it, so that > I don't have to edit the resulting .m3u file. Then it looks like updating would be > handled by simply letting the command overwrite the old .m3u with the new contents... > So I guess it wouldn't require that fancy a shell script. Probably even I > could write one... > find -type f :) You may want a script to automatically update the list, run it manually or from cron, add -name constraints for some file types... I just wanted to remind you that you can use it. Advanced options are an exercise for the reader :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
