On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM, 42 147 <aeus...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the best way to keep a playlist in org-mode? > > I just want to keep a list of everything I like. Right now my format is: > > **** Judas Priest > ***** Painkiller (1990) > ****** (2) Hell Patrol > ****** (6) Night Crawler > ****** (7) Between the Hammer and the Anvil > **** At The Gates > ***** Slaughter of the Soul (1995) > ****** (1) Blinded By Fear > ****** (2) Slaughter of the Soul > ****** (3) Cold > ****** (4) Under A Serpent Sun > **** Megadeth > ***** Killing is My Business (1985)
For what it’s worth, a good way for my requirements: Since anyway I discover and cherry-pick songs and focus on songs rather than albums, especially for more recent music, I decided to move from the common path format “Judas Priest - 1990 Painkiller - 02 Hell Patrol” to the much simpler “Judas Priest - Hell Patrol”. The album information is moved to _optional_ properties. It allows to add songs much quicker, without losing the time to find out the album year, name and track only to be able to insert the new song into the right path. The songs are in alphabetical order of its title. Album information can be left empty and if added later doesn’t disturb the song’s path and the ordering. I put up with the resulting scattering of albums. Should I care about this in a rare case of a complete album, a playlist for the album is perfect. E. g. M3U. Most of the times I have very few songs per album, often only one. Songs released more than once like in Best Of albums are not duplicated. Case by case the properties for the album may be left empty or contain the first released, the acquired or even several albums e. g. concatenated in the field value. No concerns anymore also on how to resolve this with the common path format and with complete albums. how the interactive column view in the buffer (C-c C-x C-c) looks like: #+BEGIN: columnview | artist - title | * | year | album | tr | |--------------------------------------+---+------+-------------+----| | * Judas Priest | | | | | | *** Between the Hammer and the Anvil | 1 | 1990 | Painkiller | 07 | | *** Come and Get It | 5 | 1988 | Ram It Down | 04 | | *** Hell Patrol | 4 | 1990 | Painkiller | 02 | | * Lou Reed | | | | | | *** Perfect Day | | | | | | * The Jolly Boys | | | | | | *** Perfect Day | 3 | | | | #+END: file content: #+STARTUP: odd #+COLUMNS: %30ITEM(artist - title) %1rating(*) %4year %20album %2track(tr) * Judas Priest - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Priest]] - [[http://www.judaspriest.com]] - bla bla *** Between the Hammer and the Anvil :PROPERTIES: :rating: 1 :year: 1990 :album: Painkiller :track: 07 :END: - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycte4mmN8l4]] *** Come and Get It :PROPERTIES: :rating: 5 :year: 1988 :album: Ram It Down :track: 04 :END: *** Hell Patrol :PROPERTIES: :rating: 4 :year: 1990 :album: Painkiller :track: 02 :END: * Lou Reed *** Perfect Day :PROPERTIES: :ID: d25f4624-7c1d-40b3-8f53-5175696d4254 :END: - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Day_(Lou_Reed_song)]] - covered by: - Patti Smith - The Jolly Boys: [[id:0a4045c5-428f-4ffd-9e90-ed2558355d11]] - for more cover versions see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Day_(Lou_Reed_song)#Other_versions]] * The Jolly Boys *** Perfect Day :PROPERTIES: :ID: 0a4045c5-428f-4ffd-9e90-ed2558355d11 :rating: 3 :discovered: [2010-09-30 Thu] :END: - covers Lou Reed: [[id:d25f4624-7c1d-40b3-8f53-5175696d4254]] - [[file:/podcasts/radio_station/music_show/2010-09-29.mp3::01:09:43]] (this link starts the podcast MP3 file at the position where the song was played) - bla bla Michael
