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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Ken Brookings on February 12, 2003, 05:36:20 am

Title: Playlist Trading request.
Post by: Ken Brookings on February 12, 2003, 05:36:20 am

I've got four MC users on a local area network accessing my database.  Each station has a different user who keeps their own playlists and other preferences.  

I'd love to exchange playlists between stations: send them electronically and have them appear in the playlist listings of the target station.

I realize this is a request but in the meantime is there some workaround to get this done that's easier than printing out a playlist and then rebuilding it in the playlist listing of the other station.  Any ideas?

Thanks much,
Ken

Title: Re: Playlist Trading request.
Post by: Matt on February 12, 2003, 12:46:41 pm

You can export a playlist in a few formats that other MC's will be able to import.

Play around with the File->Export Playlist... menu.

If you use a mapped drive (or UNC paths) from all the computers, this should work pretty slick.

Title: Re: Playlist Trading request.
Post by: nila on February 12, 2003, 03:03:22 pm

Yeah,
I was thinking something similar too just this week.

I too have a few computers accessing one big music server and I was thinking it'd be nice to be able to share the playlists and to ALSO be able to share our ratings. Like let everyone rate the songs individually then have all the ratings saved to the songs without over writing each other. So we could see what the other people thought.

Ideally I'd like to be able to 'merge' two people's libraries so that all the songs that were rated by one person could have their ratings copied to the other persons database if the songs were unrated in his library.

If they were already rated however it would leave them.


This way we could get other people's opinions on songs that we hadn't already rated yet but our own personal rating of songs we've listened to would have dominance.