Mastiff
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
Hi!
I can't get the playlist.gir to work! The big problem with this is that I told my wife that she'd have access to all her albums just by punchin four codes on the remote, instead of having to turn on the TV (which I use as a monitor in the living room, where no computers are allowed) and navigating her way to the right album. I wanted to be able to have numbered and named playlists and then print out an alphabetic list of those, so she could check this "phone book" and punch the right number for the album she wanted. That was the idea. Now to the problems:
When I input the numbers, it only takes every other number! I try to input "121" to start playlist121.m3u but it says it can't find playlist11.m3u! What am I doing wrong here? Sometimes it doesn't take the third number either, it just goes to timeout. I know there is not a problem with my IRMan since all other commands (and believe me, I have lots of them!) work perfectly. Is there a plugin I need to enable that I haven't enabled? I've got the AlarmTimer 1.1 on. Anything else?
Is there perhaps a certain rythm you need to press the keys in? In that case it's close to hopeless, since I want my kids to learn to use this (I just give them the numbers to their albums) and they can't possibly manage that.
Also: What do I change to get it to accept four digits in the playlist number? I've got more than 100 megs of mp3's, most of it full albums.
And do I have to create and number those playlists manually (via Winamp or whatever) or is there a program that can create sequentially numbered playlists? I tried Ron's plugin, but it could not get it to accept a wildcard as input file (sort of like AC/DC - Back in black.m3u getting renamed by the formula *.m3u to 0001 AC/DC - Back in black.m3u, if you get my drift.
And finally: How do I get it to play the file *101.m3u, in other words I don't want it to care about the start of the filename, only the number (or maybe 101*.m3u, if that's easier).
I can't get the playlist.gir to work! The big problem with this is that I told my wife that she'd have access to all her albums just by punchin four codes on the remote, instead of having to turn on the TV (which I use as a monitor in the living room, where no computers are allowed) and navigating her way to the right album. I wanted to be able to have numbered and named playlists and then print out an alphabetic list of those, so she could check this "phone book" and punch the right number for the album she wanted. That was the idea. Now to the problems:
When I input the numbers, it only takes every other number! I try to input "121" to start playlist121.m3u but it says it can't find playlist11.m3u! What am I doing wrong here? Sometimes it doesn't take the third number either, it just goes to timeout. I know there is not a problem with my IRMan since all other commands (and believe me, I have lots of them!) work perfectly. Is there a plugin I need to enable that I haven't enabled? I've got the AlarmTimer 1.1 on. Anything else?
Is there perhaps a certain rythm you need to press the keys in? In that case it's close to hopeless, since I want my kids to learn to use this (I just give them the numbers to their albums) and they can't possibly manage that.
Also: What do I change to get it to accept four digits in the playlist number? I've got more than 100 megs of mp3's, most of it full albums.
And do I have to create and number those playlists manually (via Winamp or whatever) or is there a program that can create sequentially numbered playlists? I tried Ron's plugin, but it could not get it to accept a wildcard as input file (sort of like AC/DC - Back in black.m3u getting renamed by the formula *.m3u to 0001 AC/DC - Back in black.m3u, if you get my drift.
And finally: How do I get it to play the file *101.m3u, in other words I don't want it to care about the start of the filename, only the number (or maybe 101*.m3u, if that's easier).