Re: Audio file playlist selections

de Susan Bugher 04/11/2006 11:15

Art wrote:

> I have a bunch of music files (mp3) on CD, and it occurred to me that
> it would be a lot nicer to bypass the use of CD entirely and arrange
> to have a few desktop icons which invoke favorite playlists. I found
> this was easy to do with VLC:
>
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
> VLC allows you to create different playlists, and it turned out to be
> really convenient and easy to do what I want with batch files since
> VLC accepts different playlists on the command line. For example,
> one of my batches is:
>
> @echo off
> vlc c:musicart.m3U
>
> where art is the name I asigned to a playlist when I Saved the
> playlist in vlc and m3u is the file extension vlc assigns to
> playlists. The c:music folder is where the group of mp3s on the
> playlist is stored. I arbitrarily decided to store the playlist files
> in the associated folders. The batches are written to reside in the
> same folder as vlc.exe. I name a batch something like Art's Jazz
> Favorites and I select a musical-looking icon for it. Works out
> beautifully. VLC not only plays all the files in sequence but it also
> automatically loops back to the first one and starts over.
>
> I could complicate the batch slightly and have it ask me which
> playlist I want. Then instead of several icons, I'd have just one.
>
> Now, one would think that of all the many players available, that
> there would be one that handles what I wanted to do without forcing
> the user to come up with such a scheme. So my question is ... anyone
> know of any such players? Seems most players have capabilities of
> doing everything except the very simple ... and very nice and handy
> thing I created for myself.

I dunno if this will do what you want or not. . .

Program: Playlist Creator
Company: odd gravITy
Ware: (Donationware) (free)
http://www.oddgravity.de/

Susan
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