[mythtv-users] Playlists on multiple machines. **Feature Request**

[Michael Jones]

So can we make this a feature request?



> From: Erich Boleyn <erich at uruk.org>
> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:49:53 -0700
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>, Michael Jones
> <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Playlists on multiple machines.
> 
> 
> Michael Jones <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've looked on the list and there doesn't seem to be any good (translate
>> useful) information out there on this.
>> 
>> I'm trying to create a set of global playlists for mythmusic.   When I
>> create a playlist on my main machine (the backend/Frontend) the database
>> tags it with the name of that machine.  None of the other machines can see
>> it.
>> 
>> If I go into the database and edit the field to the name of the frontend,
>> the playlist becomes available on that frontend.
>> 
>> If I change it to Null, it doesn't show up anywhere.
>> 
>> If I change it to * it doesn't show up anywhere..
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas on one or more of the following:
>> 
>> 1) Creating a playlist from the GUI  that will show up on ALL frontends
>> 
>> 2) Editing the field that assigns the playlist to a particular frontend
>> to something that will make it show on all frontends.
> 
> When listing or reading playlists, the code as is does a database query
> whose match parameters includs the hostname of the machine the frontend
> is running on, so there's really nothing you can do without changing
> the code.
> 
> I am kind of cheating with this, but I just changed the code for reading
> playlists to never check the hostname.
> 
> The other possibility is to change the code to support a "Global"
> playlist setting like a "NULL" or "*" filename which you could either
> set in the playlist interface when creating or editing one.
> 
> Personally, I think playlists:
>   --  Shouldn't be attached to a particular machine (what is the point of
> having multiple "shared" MythTV systems if only to have them not
> see anything from each other??  even if it's all stored in the
> same database!).
>   --  Maybe shouldn't be in the database at all...  I'm considering
> changing playlists to be read from "m3u" files, that way I can
> import my large music collection and not have to worry about the
> MythTV database ever getting corrupted.
> 
> 
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>     Erich Stefan Boleyn     <erich at uruk.org>     http://www.uruk.org/
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