apitofme/beets-m3u

A beets plugin to generate M3U playlists

beets-m3u

!!! ARCHIVED: not worth creating / finishing as work-around via text output is possible in console, plus I don't have the time or sufficient knowledge of Python (yet or ever) !!!

Proposal for new Beets plugin

Name:   m3ulist

Desc:   A plugin to create m3u playlists for ...

• albums during import operations
• albums already in database (auto-gen one / some / all)
• all items returned by a custom search query

Details:   The plugin should ...

• offer relative or absolute file paths in playlists
• allow saving of playlist file to different locations (e.g. album folder, library-level folder or custom directory)
• optionally (auto) generate a playlist when an album is imported
• provide a CLI to create playlist files for existing library entities, this should include albums and custom compilations of singletons

Considerations:

• optionally include the UTF-8 BOM for the M3U8 format?
• support other playlist formats (e.g. PLS)?
• limit the number of items allowed per playlist! (or at least per generate operation?)
• provide ability to append items to an existing playlist file?
• update playlist files when items are changed, preferably on-demand (i.e. search for playlist items (per playlist) and update as required)
• provide some means to test which albums do/don't have a playlist associated with them? (e.g. create a reference in the database!)