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Cannot manage playlists on external player such as iPod or other mp3 players #2278

Open Clementine-Issue-Importer opened 10 years ago

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From Iridium7...@googlemail.com on October 06, 2011 08:22:33

I can copy files to an external mp3 player, but no playlists. After the death of Amarok, I need to use gtkpod as a workaround, which is a PITA, especially if you have gotten used to use clementine :)

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=2278

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From Lewap...@gmail.com on February 08, 2012 00:19:00

I would really like this as well. I looked (briefly) into implementing it. Libgpod definitely support is definitely there. The problem seems to be that the LibraryBackend code doesn't seem to have been designed to deal with the concept of playlists other than the ones currently opened in the main pane. In amarok 1.4, you could have playlists in your collection. In clementine, you can only save the playlist files yourself somewhere. Since devices just use a separate instance of LibraryBackend, this makes things a little more complicated.

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From chris.sc...@gmail.com on August 28, 2012 12:15:38

Based on the comment above, perhaps bug 2810 is a prerequisite of this?

meeotch commented 10 years ago

Adding a "me too" to this issue. I just now switched to Clementine from Amarok 1.4 when my many-years-old installation of Ubuntu Hardy system disk finally died. I'd been used to having a single smart playlist that would grab 2GB of music at random, and being able to just sync it to my ipod. Disappointed to find that functionality missing from Clementine.

The problem is that select-all'ing the individual tracks and copying them over leaves an unordered pile of songs on the device, so there's no way of separating them from other playlists / albums you already have on there. You can't, for instance, have a "loud" playlist and a "mellow" playlist - you've just got a pile of songs.