Open DevilsDesigns opened 1 year ago
Sorry, this is not currently supported.
can this be added as an enhancement in the future? I couldnt find the enhancement tag
I just added the tag. Do you mean downloading the playlist metadata (eg. an m3u
file) or an archive containing the audio files?
I mean downloading an m3u with all data from the playlist so if need be we can move them around to different pcs or apps. Is that possible?
Note that Polaris playlists are saved on the server so you shouldn't have to move them between different PC, as long as you are connecting to the same Polaris server.
Exporting playlist m3u
files would be possible, but technical limitations make it not very useful. For each song the playlist, the m3u
file must store a path or URL where the song can be accessed. In the context of polaris
, the options are:
http://mypolarisserver.com/audio/my_music/classical/cool-song.mp3
). This is fairly useless as accessing these URL requires authentication headers which media players can't provide. This means trying to open one of these m3u
files in foobar / VLC / Rythmbox would not work./home/devilsdesigns/desktop/music/classsical/cool-song.mp3
). There is no authentication problem with this solution but the playlist would only work when played on the server itself, or another computer where the paths happen to also be valid. I also don't love that this leaks the folder structure from the server./my_music/classical/cool-song.mp3
), but a playlist file like this could not be played anywhere. Would any of these make sense for your use case?
The second option would be highly desirable for my use case
I am toying with the idea of exporting a playlist for some time now. Here is my use case and a solution that I have come up with.
A little more details here - https://github.com/pmphfm/polaris/blob/master/docs/user-guide-src/src/playlists.md#export
Is there currently a way to download playlists created?