Cross plugin playlists (1 Viewer)

[egonspengleruk]

Hi all,

Is it possible to access a Video/Music playlist from within another Plugin? If so what bit of code do I need to use?
Sorry for the waffley question...but not sure how else to put it. Stage 2 of the MyBurner plugin is to add in a Burn To CD/DVD item into the context menu of MyMusic and MyVideos. But to do that I need to somehow create a global playlist that can be accessed from each of the plugins.....any ideas on where in the code I should be looking at to start this?

Egon

 

[patrick]

Is it possible to access a Video/Music playlist from within another Plugin? If so what bit of code do I need to use?

Hi Egon,

It has been a while since I looked at this but I think it is along the lines of:

MediaPortal.Playlists.PlayList mpPlaylist = PlayListPlayer.GetPlaylist(PlayListPlayer.PlayListType.PLAYLIST_MUSIC);

The playlist types are:
PLAYLIST_NONE,
PLAYLIST_MUSIC,
PLAYLIST_MUSIC_TEMP,
PLAYLIST_VIDEO,
PLAYLIST_VIDEO_TEMP


HTH,
patrick

 

[egonspengleruk]

Is it possible to access a Video/Music playlist from within another Plugin? If so what bit of code do I need to use?

Hi Egon,

It has been a while since I looked at this but I think it is along the lines of:

MediaPortal.Playlists.PlayList mpPlaylist = PlayListPlayer.GetPlaylist(PlayListPlayer.PlayListType.PLAYLIST_MUSIC);

The playlist types are:
PLAYLIST_NONE,
PLAYLIST_MUSIC,
PLAYLIST_MUSIC_TEMP,
PLAYLIST_VIDEO,
PLAYLIST_VIDEO_TEMP


HTH,
patrick

Hey Patrick,

Above doesnt compile....but the below does.

PlayListPlayer player = new PlayListPlayer();
PlayList playlist = player.GetPlaylist(PlayListType.PLAYLIST_MUSIC);

But it doesnt get me the current MyMusic playlist
Makes sense as i have just created a new object and havent put anything in it yet.

Started looking for PLAYLIST_MUSIC in the code and found the following

void OnPlayCD(string strDriveLetter, bool AskForAlbum)
{
// start playing current CD
PlayList list = playlistPlayer.GetPlaylist(PlayListType.PLAYLIST_MUSIC_TEMP);

Makes sense...but playlistPlayer is defined as

protected PlayListPlayer playlistPlayer;

So I dont have any way of getting at it outside the MyMusic plugin?

Egon

Egon

 

[samuel337]

Try this:

MediaPortal.Playlists.PlayListPlayer.SingletonPlayer.GetPlaylist(playlistType)

where playlistType is the one of the possible playlist values in the PlaylistType enum.

BTW, this has just given me an idea:
If you are going to have functionality that allows people to add items to burn from other modules, you should get the devs to create a new playlistType called maybe PLAYLIST_BURN. This way, other plugin devs can add its to this playlist and then you can read it in your plugin and burn it.

Sam

 

[egonspengleruk]

Try this:

MediaPortal.Playlists.PlayListPlayer.SingletonPlayer.GetPlaylist(playlistType)

where playlistType is the one of the possible playlist values in the PlaylistType enum.

BTW, this has just given me an idea:
If you are going to have functionality that allows people to add items to burn from other modules, you should get the devs to create a new playlistType called maybe PLAYLIST_BURN. This way, other plugin devs can add its to this playlist and then you can read it in your plugin and burn it.

Sam

Hey Sam,

Already thought of that. I currently have a PLAYLIST_BURN_AUDIO and PLAYLIST_BURN_VIDEO. Need seperate ones in order to know if im burning a music CD or a video DVD.

Will give that code a try.

Egon

 

[egonspengleruk]

Yeap....thats got it

Thanks Sam!

Egon

 

[Bram]

Fantastic you're continuing devlopment of the plugin.
Will there a possebility to normalize before burning in the future?

 

[egonspengleruk]

Fantastic you're continuing devlopment of the plugin.
Will there a possebility to normalize before burning in the future?

Hey Bram,

Yeah I saw your post on the MyBurner topic.....it would probably be doable.....but I just dont know how to do it yet. Its on the list of things to do but near the bottom as its going to take a while to find out how things like that work...

Egon

 

[Bram]

We're going offtopic here, pardon me, but for Linux there is http://normalize.nongnu.org/ . I'll try to find a command line tool for windows.

edit: I think I found one
https://neon1.net/prog/normalizer.html