reckel-jm
commented
2 years ago Thanks for bringing up this feature request! A simple solution to export lists of selected songs is already implemented and can be found under Menu File -> Import/Export song list. However, this creates only a text file with the path of the song files, not the content of them. This would be a nice to add feature! Steps which have to be done to implement this would be:
- [x] Define a file format which can display multiple songs, its titles and its content. At the moment, I am thinking of a TeX-style pseudo-format which would look like this:
\begincantarasong{Amazing-Grace.song}
% filecontent here
\endcantarasong
\begincantarasong{How great Thou art.song}
% filecontent here
\endcantarasongXML or JSON would be also possible, but I am afraid that some chars of the content of the song files would be needed to escape or there are other kind of incompatibilities do deal with.
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[x] Deal with the import of new songs: What happens, if a user would like to import a song list with content, but he has already a file with the same name on his PC? What if the file is not the same, how to deal with different versions?
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[x] Write a class to create and parse such kind of files.
It would be good if you can save a list of songs beforehand (in a file for example) and just open this file when needed. After this, all songs should be loaded and ready to display.
These files should be created through Cantara itself.