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Topic: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg) (Read 208808 times) previous topic - next topic
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Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #475 –
No way! What at a surprise!
Maybe you didn't see the warnings about the component being totally broken on the wiki, the components page, etc.
Oh wait... you can't see those warnings since they are non existent xd

Just being ironic, this whole situation with known broken and incompatible components makes zero sense.

Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #476 –
Does acting like this give you pleasure?

Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #477 –
Fyi I have been using this component without any major issues until 2.0

Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #478 –
There's a lot of discussion on the previous page about how broken it is, and @regor can be seen there repeatedly complaining that it hasn't been marked as broken despite numerous reports to that effect.

@etip's JScript Panel 3 version takes a bit of learning but is a great alternative - see his post above.

Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #479 –
foobar2000 v2.0 32bit 64bit Support.

Playlist Organizer (Jscript Panel 3): by etip
https://foobar2000.xrea.jp/?Default+UI+element+64bit#f768f44d

make the page english on google.
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@regor
Thank you for editing the Japanese wiki the other day.
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Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #480 –
Quote from: dpc666 on
Fyi I have been using this component without any major issues until 2.0
As someone has explained, I was just being ironic about this non-sense situation where a component being reported to be broken during a full year has been not been flagged as such yet. My comment was not towards you, but the situation (and the whole component ecosystem philosophy),

It's the developers responsibility to handle this, but here we have a few reports per week about a broken component which is not maintained since years. There is crash reporter flagging some components as broken and this one has been omitted for some unknown reason. I simply don't understand if this is just laziness or what; but there have been a dozen of reports by other people and me about this.

I mean, it would be less ironic if the first post at the 3rd party plugins sub-forum was not this one:  ::)
Please do not recommend broken components

Having a broken component on the official components list without a warning seems to me a recommendation to use it.

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Thank you for editing the Japanese wiki the other day.
Took me some time to figure how it worked!

Re: foo_playlist_organizer (aka foo_plorg)

Reply #481 –
Quote from: regor on
Quote from: dpc666 on
Fyi I have been using this component without any major issues until 2.0
As someone has explained, I was just being ironic about this non-sense situation where a component being reported to be broken during a full year has been not been flagged as such yet. My comment was not towards you, but the situation (and the whole component ecosystem philosophy)

Oh, apologies, I often have trouble understanding tone.

Since I came across your Spider Monkey script (Playlist Manager) during my search for alternatives, I was wondering if it would make sense to also have it monitor subfolders of the playlist folder and display them in foo_plorg tree-view fashion. I know categories are meant to allow for a similar functionality, but perhaps having it tied to actual folders on the filesystem would be more intuitive.

JScript Panel 3 scripts are not an alternative for people using Wine, unfortunately. I briefly tried making the Playlist Organizer script work on Spider Monkey Panel, but I couldn't find the equivalents for all functions.
 

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Reply #482 –
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Since I came across your Spider Monkey script (Playlist Manager) during my search for alternatives, I was wondering if it would make sense to also have it monitor subfolders of the playlist folder and display them in foo_plorg tree-view fashion. I know categories are meant to allow for a similar functionality, but perhaps having it tied to actual folders on the filesystem would be more intuitive.
The problem with using physical subfolders (although I will think about it!) would be what happens with the backup subfolder.

I have already tried adding folders, but virtual ones added by tags within the playlist file. It' was a bit too complex to debug, once I allowed unlimited levels... but it's a possibility on the future.

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Note contrary to the JS script, mine supports both UI and physical files and has complex filters and search functionality... so the list is not hardcoded by a tree; it changes dynamically according to all those filters and files. It's less trivial to create folders (since those filters also affect subitems shown), and considering I have actions which can be applied on batch to multiple selected playlists the complexity scales so fast.

Both managers are not comparable at all, and have clearly different aims. I plan to create a new mode to simplify it's usage, removing features not needed for users who only want a playlist tree to switch UI playlists.

I could consider automatically creating categories by subfolders though (without adding a folders feature in the manager). That could be easier. But please, lets continue these topics on the script threads if needed.