Easy playlist access (1 Viewer)

[Thomas42]

Hi,

is there any easy access to stored playlists, maybe I'm missing something? Selecting MyMusic, open side-menu, scroll down and open submenu to scroll down there again seems a bit awkward to me. Selecting them by shares view contradicts the carefully tagged and well furnished database-related views.

Accessing playlists via MyRadio would be a good solution IMHO, as the playlists could be selected by nice corresponding graphics. I experimented with MyRadio and local m3u-playlists, but unfortunately they either don't work at all, or generate an error message (something like "TV-card busy") or open the m3u and display each contained track.

Thanks
Thomas

TV-Server Version: (Very old MP/TV-Engine)
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0 (still, as 1.0.x kill all my key mods)
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3wide
Windows Version: XP MCE2005 SP3
CPU Type: Intel Core2Duo 7300 2.67GHz
HDD: WD 2.5'' Scorpio Black S-ATAII AHCI 320GB
Memory: 4GB DDR2-800
Motherboard: Intel DG45FC miniITX
Video Card: Intel X4500HD (G45 ICH10R onboard)
Video Card Driver: Intel 14.36.5.5016
Sound Card: Intel Azalia HD-Audio (G45 ICH10R onboard)
Sound Card AC3: not used (5.1 analog out)
Sound Card Driver: Intel 6033.2 IDTGUI v124
1. TV Card: MSI Digivox Duo USB
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver: (not yet installed)
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPC v1.2.1043 (saf347), Corel WinDVD9plus
MPEG2 Audio Codec: ffdshow V2970 MPEG-4 SSE
h.264 Video Codec: MPC v1.2.1043 (saf347) or ffdshow V2970 MPEG-4 SSE
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Remote: Logitech diNovo Mini
TV: 40'' LCD Samsung LE-40S81B
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI 1.3

 

[fabien44]

+1, it should be easy to access

 

[hwahrmann]

Well, the way you described above is the only way to accss playlists currently. a skinner could however place a button, which navigates directly to them.
An alternative, if you want to play the same playlist instantly, is using my OneButtonMusic plugin, which allows easy playback of playlists

 

[Thomas42]

Thanks. Yes, OneButtonMusic ist currently the solution I use and forgot to mention, sorry. It is a little bit confusing to my family, as they have to maintain a note which number corresponds to which (sometimes changed) playlist. Placing a skin button sounds like there may be an ID, which probably could be used also with Shortcut'er? However, I didn't found one within the XMLs (seems dialogs are referred to by XML-local, embedded numbers), the window IDs list states only the active playlist screen itself. Well, OneButtonMusic is a way to select quickly up to 11 playlists, thank you.