Hi, Hereby I'm announcing the first version of my playlist generating Python script that not only replaces the functionality of the simple Bash script I used to create playlists beforem but also reads meta data (tags, comments) from MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files and writes extended M3U playlists.
The script scans given directories for media files with known file name extensions and writes the file names into a playlist file in M3U or extended M3U format. Those very simple formats are used or at least understood by the vast majority of media players on different platforms. For reading meta data some third party software is needed. Namely the mad mp3 decoder and the Python bindings for it http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ http://spacepants.org/src/pymad/ the ID3 tag reader from http://id3-py.sourceforge.net/ and the Ogg Vorbis Python bindings by Andrew Chatham http://www.andrewchatham.com/pyogg It's "beta quality" software and only tested on Linux, so I'm interested in positive/negative feedback and bug reports. You can find the script here: http://www.marc.rintsch.de/software.html#mkplaylist Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
