it would be useful to have the anticipated playlist length

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winamp multi user network remote control plugin + client

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it would be useful to have the anticipated playlist length #60

Closed patrickmmartin closed 11 years ago

patrickmmartin commented 12 years ago

but, similarly to the playlist display issue in #50 from memory, items like the song length are not fetched

patrickmmartin commented 12 years ago

given the display is currently a progress bar, is it possible to estimate and asymptotically improve the estimate as more information is gleaned? Would require more queries upon the song changed event

patrickmmartin commented 11 years ago

IPC_UPDTITLE, IPC_REFRESHPLCACHE seem like good starting points to see if the titles and metadata can be fetched upon request

patrickmmartin commented 11 years ago

taken from the other issue:

winamp queries the mp3 files for better song titles in the background. Re-arranging the songs causes this data to be reset and people using (say) cdex to generate filenames like "01 - Swim" will notice the base file names.

Could do with either forcing a refresh (how), or ensure that the song list is updated appropriately.. Perhaps re-jig the playlist function to generate a hash, which can be tested prior to fetching everything.

patrickmmartin commented 11 years ago

IPC_REFRESHPLCACHE does not seem to cause the playlist to be refreshed