[Playlist] [rfc] Nested playlists (and playlist chains) again

[Rafaël Carré]

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Lucas Gonze a écrit :
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> 
>> Lucas Gonze wrote:
>>> It would be good to get some examples of nested playlists in the wild.
>>>
>>> What does VLC do with this functionality, Sebastian?
>>
>> VLC's playlist editor has a nested structure
>> so I guess they just dump that tree 1:1.
> 
> I know the view you're talking about...  It's a singly-nested list, and
> each time you drop a batch of files into the player it gets added as a
> collapsable component.
> 
> Are these playlists really stored for any length of time?  That strikes
> me as a temporary buffer more than a playlist.
> 

We use that format for the "Media Library", i.e. a playlist that will be
loaded at each startup, so that's meant to last forever, untill items
are deleted from the playlist manually.

You can add a directory to VLC's playlist and see the nested structure

Dir
	Subdir1
		File1_1
		File1_2
	Subdir2
		File2_1

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Rafaël Carré
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