Playlists

Playlists

Before Simple JQuery Media Player will play anything you need to assign something for it to play this is done with playlist files and pointer files both in the ini format. The pointer is located in the sjqmp root tells the media player where to find the data i.e. in another directory on another server etc. it contains the following data

playlisturl="./path/to/playlist/"

stores the base url for the playlist

mediadir="yourmedia/"

stores the location of the media

artdir="yourart/"

stores the location of art for music files

playlistfile="yourplaylist.ini"

stores the location of the playlist itself.

the actual playlist file contains the following

media sections labeled [media1] [media2] etc.

inside those media sections there are

file="/path/to/file/relative/to/mediadir"

the media file

art="/path/to/art/relative/to/artdir"

the album art or equivalent image file for music tracks, can be numbered for slidshows

title="Title for audio"

the title of the media file, can be numbered for slidshows

type="audio|video"

determines weather the media is an audio or a video
also there are some optional variables

arttype

used for defining slideshows for music tracks. can be slideshow or timedslideshow

time

used exclusively for timed slideshows the time in seconds the next image should show