#15 Support for iPod-style playlists

[Jason Carter]

Hi,

It would be great if there were support for having
several pseudo-playlists like you can have on an iPod
within the iTunes interface. For example, there would
be two playlists that show up within iTunes, each with
different songs. Then, the different playlists would
just map to different subfolders on the drive. I tried
to cludge this together by having two device
descriptions with the same recognition pattern (i.e.
D:RECORD) and with different subfolders (e.g. PL01,
PL02, PL03, etc.) and different names (- MP3 Player -
Playlist 01, - MP3 Player - Playlist 02, etc.).
However, ITA only recognizes the first device and then
stops searching.

[Jaran Nilsen]

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Thanks for the idea. It will be considered for
implementation in 2.0. I think your "hack" should work
however; if you simply create a "RECORD2" folder on your
device as well and map the second device configuration to
that folder.

[Ronnie Angerer]

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I agree that the hack should work fine. I think it will
require some changes to work. From what I can see, it looks
like the code compares the list of available drives to the
profiles, such that a drive will only ever be processed
once. If you swap the comparison around so that it starts
with the profiles and compares to the available drives, I
think it would allow the "hack" to work.

I tried setting up different comparison folders (the
"RECORD2" suggestion below) and it still doesn't work correctly.

I'd try it myself but don't have a .net dev platform.

By the way, this is a very helpful piece of software. Thanks.