Exaile

Dbus method to get current playlist

Bug #593301 reported by Grzegorz Lachowski
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Exaile
Fix Released
Wishlist
Mathias Brodala
Exaile 3.3.0 "jump"

Bug Description

It would be nice to have getCurrentPlaylist or getCurrentlyPlayingPlaylist method.

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lp://staging/exaile/0.3.3
Grzegorz Lachowski (gregory-lachowski)
tags: added: dbus method playlist remote wish
tags: added: feature
removed: wish
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reacocard (reacocard) wrote :

What should this method return? We can't exactly pass an entire Playlist object across D-BUS.

Changed in exaile:
status: New → Incomplete
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Grzegorz Lachowski (gregory-lachowski) wrote :

It could get a list of a track title, an artist, an album, track nr and number on the list of every playlist element.
I am making a remote app for my android phone and I would like to have a possibility to get currently playing playlist and currently playing track and use this information to choose track from the list remotely. Is it possible to implement?

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Grzegorz Lachowski (gregory-lachowski) wrote :

If this amount of data is too much to retrieve via dbus, the method could get only filenames of the playlist elements (quodlibet does similar thing)

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reacocard (reacocard) wrote :

The amount of data isn't the issue, it's how to structure it. Perhaps instead of transferring it directly however, we could add an ExportCurrentPlaylist(filename, format) call, which would export the currently-selected playlist to the given filename in the given format (m3u/pls/asx/xspf). That way external programs can get it in whatever format they are most comfortable with, and it is more future-proof as well.

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Grzegorz Lachowski (gregory-lachowski) wrote :

This is a perfect solution

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Mathias Brodala (mathbr) wrote :

Fixed with r3692. There now is a --export-playlist CLI option you can pass a playlist name to. The current playlist will be saved at that location then.

Changed in exaile:
assignee: nobody → Mathias Brodala (mathbr)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → 0.3.3
status: Incomplete → Fix Committed
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Mathias Brodala (mathbr) wrote :

Uh, and of course there is an ExportPlaylist DBus method now.

Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)
Changed in exaile:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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