[mythtv-users] Hey all

[Ed Benckert]

I noticed that... I wrote an app that would do playlists MUCH more 
intelligently than mythmusic's built in playlists. (Which is "pick the songs 
you want" and thats as complicated as it gets). Mine's a PHP webpage where 
you can make very very complex smart playlists, like in iTunes, but even 
more complicated than that.

For example, I have a playlist that says:
Give me every song between 1980 and 1989 that is not of the genre christmas, 
jazz, tv theme songs, metal, broadway, soundtrack (and then a few others).

iTunes can do that. MythMusic cannot. But say you wanted all 80's music 
(like above) AND any club/dance/techno music, regardless of year... mine can 
link two playlisits together like that.

And yes, you could do all that manually with the MythMusic playlist editor, 
but say you finally got that mp3 of Whip It! you've been wanting, and you 
add it to your library... to make sure it's in your playlist, you gotta 
manually add it. With my thing, it would be added in automatically (like 
iTunes smart playlists)

Anyway, I digress. In coding that I noticed the terribly bad way itunes 
finds songs that are in its playlist... all song ID's are in a comma 
demilited string, and quite likely it does some crappy for-loop and issues a 
select for each song it finds to get the title, instead of using the 
database like it should be used for. I'm gonna see if I can fix that.

If anyone is interested in my playlist generator, send me an email. Make 
sure mythtv is somewhere in the subject line so my spam trapper doesnt eat 
the email. Right now it's Ed-only software (written by me, for me, pretty 
much only deipherable by me to reconfigure it for anyone else) but if 
there's demand I'll make sure it's portable and others can use it cleanly.