DAAP songs and playlists

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:26:28PM +0200, Christophe Dehais
wrote:
> Hi list !
> 
> Why isn't it possible to put a DAAP served song in a
playlist ? I mean, they
> can be put in the Play Queue...
> 
> Well maybe it's two different problems but I'm a bit
confused. All my music
> being over DAAP, I lost the whole playlist feature. I
hope I add time to try
> and improve RB on this.

There are two reasons:

- Sources (except the play queue) only accept entries of one
type, and
  for playlists, that's the local song type.  It'd be
fairly easy to
  modify the playlist source class so it would accept other
types.
  This wouldn't get you very far, though, because:
  
- We can't save DAAP entries to the playlist file.  It
would take some
  fairly involved hacking to fix this.  We'd need a way to
transform the
  DAAP entry URIs, which currently look like this (from
memory): 

   
daap://<ip-address>:<port>/databases/1/items/346
2.mp3?<session-id>

  The persistant format would need to be based on the share
name, rather
  than ip:port, otherwise you'd lose your playlists if the
DAAP server
  got a different IP address or picked a different port
number.  We'd
  then need some way to initiate the DAAP connection on
startup.

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On 8/1/06, Jonathan Matthew <jonathankaolin.wh9.net> wrote:
> - Sources (except the play queue) only accept entries
of one type, and
>   for playlists, that's the local song type.  It'd be
fairly easy to
>   modify the playlist source class so it would accept
other types.

Playlists do come over in a DAAP share, so is there any way
to create
a playlist on the other side (besides doing it on the
serving side)?
I suppose not, but I guess it's worth asking.
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:34:25PM -0400, Andrew Conkling
wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Jonathan Matthew <jonathankaolin.wh9.net> wrote:
> > - Sources (except the play queue) only accept
entries of one type, and
> >   for playlists, that's the local song type. 
It'd be fairly easy to
> >   modify the playlist source class so it would
accept other types.
> 
> Playlists do come over in a DAAP share, so is there any
way to create
> a playlist on the other side (besides doing it on the
serving side)?
> I suppose not, but I guess it's worth asking.

No, DAAP is read-only.  We could extend the protocol to
allow playlist
modification, adding songs, etc., but that'd require
support from other
DAAP software to be useful, and the authorization aspects of
it would be
.. interesting.

Another option would be to store local playlists associated
with DAAP
shares, rather than mixing local files and files from DAAP
shares in the
same playlist.  This would be slightly easier, as it
wouldn't involve
trying to connect to DAAP shares on startup - the playlists
would only
be shown once you connect to the share manually.
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