The latest alpha release (0.1.3) of JReceiver supports both Dynamic Playlists and a configurable sort order.

For the Rio Receiver, a DP is playlist generated as the result of a database query against the stored ID3 tags. No .m3u or .pls file is involved. The query for tunes is executed when the playlist is requested.

DPs are listed along with other playlists on the Rio Receiver itself. A web interface (see screenshots at JReceiver site) can be used to quickly compose new playlists and edit existing ones.

Configurable sort order is another new feature to achieve the much-coveted order by 'album.name,trackno'. In fact, it is now JReceiver's default ordering.

--Reed

Edited by reedesau on 15/10/01 03:18 AM.

Suh-wheet!

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Tony Fabris

Glad you like the idea. Dynamic Playlists seemed an obvious and invaluable feature for the Rio.

I may have found a decent Java library to access ID3v2 tag info. If it works out, in a future release of JReceiver you'll be able to filter based upon any of the more advanced tags, such as 'composer'.

It should be possible to extend this to allow you to group together DPs under a new playlist name. This way the filter expressions for individual DPs could be kept small and comprehensible.

I wonder if the Audiotron could ever do this? ;^)

--Reed

Alpha version 0.1.4 is up at jreceiver.sourceforge.net

New feature: scheduled background file scanning.
New feature: scan on startup.
New feature: filedate can be used in dynamic playlist filters
Faster display in folder browse.
Many scanner bugs fixed.
Now requires JRE/JDK 1.3 or newer to support TimerTask.
Consolidated logging. Now Log4J msgs directed to server log.

--Reed

A new alpha release of JReceiver

31-Oct-01 - 0.1.5
Major refactoring of architecture, to support XML-RPC and paging.
Scanner more tolerant of IO and Metadata problems.
Scanner now skips directories starting with a '.'.
Fixed bug where standard genres were being deleted.
Music server IP now configurable.
Fixed problem with lack of exception dumps in servlet log.
Document setting up build in new INSTALL.txt.
One new webapp: jrec_serv.war
Name changed on webapp: jrecvrio.war has changed to jrec_rio.war.