HouseBot

Hi again Scott



I thought of another request... I am trying to set up my PDA as a remote control for WinAmp (this is looking easier thanks to your sample theme)



At the moment, I use winamp to set up playlists of various types of music, and I am probably going to end up writing a program to convert from Winamp's playlist format into a file that HouseBot understands. That way I could still use Winamp to manage the playlist, and just convert it into the Housebot format when it had changed.



The other alternative is of course asking whether Housebot could be made to understand the Winamp 2 .PLS playlist format. That would be really cool, because then the Playlist control could perhaps display the track title and artist (stored in the playlist file) rather than the filename.



I have looked at the contents of a load of my playlists (generated by winamp 2.76) and the format appears to be .ini file style:



[playlist]

File1=\My Music\Wake Me Up.mp3

Title1=Evanescence - Wake Me Up Inside (remix)

Length1=237

:

:

File12=E:\Music\Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong.mp3

Title12=Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

Length12=213

NumberOfEntries=12

Version=2



The path referred to is given as a relative path from the root of a drive, if the audio file is on the same drive as the playlist file, or it is a full path if the audio file is on a different drive.





What do you think? I reckon this would be a good idea, but I don't know whether it be useful enough to others for you to implement it



Cheers



James

James,



I actually used the simple Playlist format from MusicMatch Jukebox, since that's how many of my lists already were stored. Looking back, that was probably not the best solution since it is limited in the information it stores and I never even provided a Plugin for MusicMatch. Really confusing... I know.



I'll add this to the list, but as I mentioned before it may have to wait until a better solution is developed.



Scott

Thanks for the reply Scott!



I am looking forward to whatever better solution you come up with - thanks for all your hard work.



James