The general idea behind the PlaylistConverter is described in a previous post.
Here’s a screenshot of the PlaylistConverter GUI:
On the top is the location of your iTunes library. The program uses a sensible default so usually there is no need to point the program to a specific location using the Choose-button to the right.
The middle part lists all the playlists in your iTunes library. It also displays some “internals” (such as the ID of the playlist) and the number of titles in the playlist. From the available lists, you can choose one or more lists to be exported. The ‘Select All’ and ‘Unselect All’ buttons make life a bit easier.
Under the list of playlists is the location that the playlists will be exported to (the so-called ‘noxon Library’ which is actually a folder on my Windows Home Server). I’ve hard-coded a default for my environment, but again you can choose a different location with the Choose-Button.
If you click ‘Convert’ the selected playlists will be converted and saved in the noxon library directory. Each playlist will be saved in an individual file. The file locations of the titles will be changed according to the paths on the Home Server.
So with this program, my wife can set up a playlists on her own computer in iTunes and convert it into a format and locations on the Windows Home Server. There, TVersity picks up the new content and makes it available to the noxon.
End result: You set up a playlist on your own PC and you can play this list on the noxon. Pretty cool!
Here's a list of the posts that describe the PlaylistConverter:
- background information on playlist formats
- base functionality of the form
- reading the playlist information from the iTunes library XML
- displaying the playlists in a listbox
- converting the playlists to M3U format
- retrieving track information from the iTunes library XML
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