Creating playlists

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Hi All,

I’m very happy with Firefly – been running it for over a year now. I have two main clients: a SoundBridge (Pinnacle HomeMusic version), and my main PC (WinAmp or Rhythmbox, dual boot).

Problem is, none of SB / WinAmp / Rhythmbox can create playlists from the DAAP share (nor can iTunes, which I tried and hated). Amarok did, but it was altogether pants – no crossfading, cut out 5-10 secs before the end of each song, and the playlists it did create didn’t retain any tag info, so they just came up as lists of “myserver/daap:5177” type entries (each song had a unique number).

Obviously I could import my entire library into WinAmp or Rhythmbox and create local playlists, but that kind of misses the point. I want to create playlists of songs to play from Firefly, so that I can then upload them to the SB and use them. I also want them to store tag info properly so that when I reload them I can see what they contain.

I could have sworn I saw a post on this board about a “DAAP playlist generator” for WinAmp, but I can’t seem to find it using the search function.

Can anyone tell me how they easily create playlists in a client which can play on a SB without editing?

Many thanks for any thoughts,

CC

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Try the Java Firefly client. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fireflyclient/

[RigasW]

The java client makes decent playlists. They are saved in the database and appear on every client, from which you listen.

At the moment you cannot delete entries from a playlist with the client … you have to do that with some sql statements on the database itself.

I hope that this feature will some day be implemented in the Java client.

Rigas

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