On Jan 20, 2005 at 10:39, Martin Michlmayr praised the llamas by saying: > * David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-20 08:24]: > > How would they deal with playlists that contain: > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administator\My Documents\My Music\Foo.mp3 > > Good point. > > > I think it is unreasonable for unix media players to import windows > > playlists. They should probably import them but silently ignore files > > that don't exist and not produce and error. > > This last sentences lead to me another question. Unrelated to the > Windows playlist bug, I received a report saying that cplay doesn't > treat non-existing files very well. They are displayed in the menu > but when you try to play them it obviously won't work. Since you say > "silently ignore files that don't exist and not produce and error", do > you think such files (which don't exist) should not be shown in the > first first or should they be shown but then be ignored? > Most[0] of the media players I've seen display the entry but silently[1] skip to the next item.
[0] Totem kindly pops up a dialog box telling you it can't play the item and then doesn't play the next item. This isn't neccessarily desireable behaviour. [1] Windows Media Player puts a ! next to an item it can't play. This seems a good feature. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
