Mplayer Playlist

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I'd like gnome-Mplayer to have a stronger playlist handling.
An improvement could be done to "add to playlist" script.

If a complete playlist & music library handling can be provided, I think 
gnome-Mplayer will be the default media player for gnome.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ogun...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2010 at 11:32

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gnome-mplayer will never be the default player for gnome due to the mplayer
requirement. However, what do you suggest for "stronger playlist handling"?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2010 at 2:12

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I also have a couple suggestions for the playlist:
1. A re-ordering of files by dragging with mouse. Less action and more 
convenient. Then you can remove buttons up / down under playlists to free some 
space.

2. Add button for detailed info about the file in playlist - fast and easy way 
to view information about a specific file in your playlist.

3. Change the order of columns in playlist: #(number), Name, Time, the rest. 
Since this is the most necessary info, the # needed to know the number in the 
queue when the shuffle is on.

4. Hide button mix list(orange arrow) to menu, the same effect gives shuffle.

5. Speedup playlist opening. Now playlist with 1000+ files opens 30+ seconds. 
Same time need to add files direct from folder.
.....

Even faced with the problem for some reason the titles of couple files 
displayed blank in the playlist. (See screenshot 
http://www.imagebanana.com/img/zj6f5s/1057108510801084108610821.png). but they 
played well, other files with similar names are displayed correctly.

Original comment by fenu...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 10:43

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1. Tried making it work once, didn't go so well.. Might try again.
2. Maybe
3. Another suggestion was to allow reordering the columns and saving that 
pref.. might do that instead
4. Still need that I belive.. you can click the column names and it will sort 
the list that way.. the Unsort reverts that
5. Playlist loading should be multithreaded. in main.c there is this line

retrieve_metadata_pool = g_thread_pool_new(retrieve_metadata, NULL, 10, TRUE, 
NULL);

Try changing the 10 to other values and see if it helps or not.. that is the 
number of threads to use when gathering metadata.. large values may peg your 
machine and make it unresponsive.

For the problem files.. run mplayer -identify -frames 0 on the files and let me 
know what it reports.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 10:54

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mplayer -identify -frames 0
result in attached file. I think problem in internal encoding for 
metainfo(CP1251 - from windows). For universal computability with all files 
need to do auto re-encoding info when displaying, or simply display a file name 
if detected not system encoding.

Original comment by fenu...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 11:26

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• test.txt

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You can set the metadata encoding in Edit->Preferences.. see if that helps.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 12:07

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Yes, this help. But what to do when many files with different encodings?

Original comment by fenu...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 12:35

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Ensure you have mplayer compiled with enca support and try that. Enca might 
detect your files with different encoding. Also, read the mplayer man page and 
look at the enca option.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 12:23

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Playlist loading is now much faster the second time it is loaded with the 1.0.8 
code and the libgda enabled. What used to take nearly a minute on my machine 
now takes just a second or two.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2013 at 2:15

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A really useful feature would be 'search' through playlist (a filter function 
where you type artist/song/filename or part-of).

Original comment by jano.pet...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2014 at 7:46