A
Art
I have a bunch of music files (mp3) on CD, and it occurred to me that
it would be a lot nicer to bypass the use of CD entirely and arrange
to have a few desktop icons which invoke favorite playlists. I found
this was easy to do with VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC allows you to create different playlists, and it turned out to be
really convenient and easy to do what I want with batch files since
VLC accepts different playlists on the command line. For example,
one of my batches is:
@echo off
vlc c:\music\art.m3U
where art is the name I asigned to a playlist when I Saved the
playlist in vlc and m3u is the file extension vlc assigns to
playlists. The c:\music folder is where the group of mp3s on the
playlist is stored. I arbitrarily decided to store the playlist files
in the associated folders. The batches are written to reside in the
same folder as vlc.exe. I name a batch something like Art's Jazz
Favorites and I select a musical-looking icon for it. Works out
beautifully. VLC not only plays all the files in sequence but it also
automatically loops back to the first one and starts over.
I could complicate the batch slightly and have it ask me which
playlist I want. Then instead of several icons, I'd have just one.
Now, one would think that of all the many players available, that
there would be one that handles what I wanted to do without forcing
the user to come up with such a scheme. So my question is ... anyone
know of any such players? Seems most players have capabilities of
doing everything except the very simple ... and very nice and handy
thing I created for myself.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
it would be a lot nicer to bypass the use of CD entirely and arrange
to have a few desktop icons which invoke favorite playlists. I found
this was easy to do with VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC allows you to create different playlists, and it turned out to be
really convenient and easy to do what I want with batch files since
VLC accepts different playlists on the command line. For example,
one of my batches is:
@echo off
vlc c:\music\art.m3U
where art is the name I asigned to a playlist when I Saved the
playlist in vlc and m3u is the file extension vlc assigns to
playlists. The c:\music folder is where the group of mp3s on the
playlist is stored. I arbitrarily decided to store the playlist files
in the associated folders. The batches are written to reside in the
same folder as vlc.exe. I name a batch something like Art's Jazz
Favorites and I select a musical-looking icon for it. Works out
beautifully. VLC not only plays all the files in sequence but it also
automatically loops back to the first one and starts over.
I could complicate the batch slightly and have it ask me which
playlist I want. Then instead of several icons, I'd have just one.
Now, one would think that of all the many players available, that
there would be one that handles what I wanted to do without forcing
the user to come up with such a scheme. So my question is ... anyone
know of any such players? Seems most players have capabilities of
doing everything except the very simple ... and very nice and handy
thing I created for myself.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg