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m3u's why do you have to import EVERYTIME
is there a way to set up songbird so it imports m3u playlists automatically. I use Ampache to manage my music remotely. In order to get songbird to play the m3u that Ampache sends it you have to download the playlist and then I have to import the playlist to play it, you have to do this to EVERY playlist (gets old after awhile). This would be my default media player if it wasn't for this. Ampache has an XML API, is there any way to use it in conjuction with songbird?
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Inappropriate?well 2 days and no answer hmmm, the 34 songbird employees must be on vacation. Your product is pretty decent but your support sucks. Guess I'll just use Amarok2 or VLC
I’m very very sad
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Inappropriate?HI, sorry. can anyone tell me why when i inport into the libary when i take cd out it wont play. plays perfect on ipod and when ipod is plugged in. just skips threw the other songs. help
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Inappropriate?@charlie
Ampache handle one or more m3u playlists ?
I think I can look at ampache code and do a patch for Songbird support (not sure yet)
I’m confident
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Bug me if you have questions - Ampache presents the web browser with a playlist of the desired type (audio/x-mpegurl in this case) with the additional header Content-Disposition: filename=ampache_playlist.m3u
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Thank you for looking at this. Ampache can send the player, a M3U, simple M3U, PLS, Asx, RAM, XSPF playlists. Not sure if this will help, but here is the XML API documentation http://ampache.org/wiki/dev:xmlapi. If you have any additional questions Ampache's Lead Dev is Karl Vollmer. He can be reached at IRC freenode #ampache or by email vollmer AT ampache DOT org. Feel free to contact me at cjsmo AT ubuntu DOT com.
Thanks again, I think Songbird and Ampache will make an awesome pair.
I’m excited
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I totally agree man! Ampache + Songbird? Wow.
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Inappropriate?I use jinzora + hamachi to access my music remotely and would also like to see songbird work more seamlessly with it. Currently I access jinzora via FF, download an .m3u and playback with VLC or MPC. Would love to see Songbird access Jinzora with browser, identify the .m3u format and be as smart as the aforementioned players—that is, play back a wide variety of formats, show the playlist downloaded, manipulate the downloaded playlist—but ideally even smarter, essentially automating the import and being as "talky" or as "silent" as a particular user wants it to be.
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Inappropriate?Bump! I just switched to Songbird as the footprint finally got down to where it doesn't bring my system to a grinding halt, and I love it - and tonight I got my ampache server up and running, so I'd love to be able to point my Songbird at Ampache and have a complete music system!
I’m hopeful
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sweet, thanks for the bump, yo
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Inappropriate?The way Amarok handles working with Ampache is an XML-RPC call. And they have a nice API that could be used to do some integration with Songbird
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Inappropriate?The best way I have found to use songbird and ampache together is to use the democratic playlist in ampache and extend my playlist timeout to about a month or so in the ampache config file. so each time I open my songbird, i just click on the same playlist php file and it plays from my democratic playlist.
I would make an addon for songbird, but I am not that good of a developer.
I’m undecided
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Oh, okay...but that just gives you a fixed playlist, right? So it's just like a radio station playing tracks in a particular order? I really want to be able to access my whole ampache library and pick tracks at will...
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The democratic play method is definitely a band-aid solution, although I do hope to improve the "democratic" playback to accomplish what you want Mark, that doesn't exist yet so it would be very much a static/transient playlist. Democratic Playlists currently have a "base" playlist from which the songs are picked at random, you can also 'vote' (add) any one song to the playlist at any time, however once the song is played it is removed from the playlist and not played again unless you re-vote for it.
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Fair enough. I'll find another way round it for now, and look forward to when I can finally centralise all my audio to Songbird :) Thanks for your help.
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All it would take is for the songbird guys to implement the Ampache API like Amarok and the Android Phone client have....
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Inappropriate?+1 for this request, Ampache is awesome and and Songbird should definitely intergrate the API.
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Inappropriate?Agreed, this would be great!
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