Since I couldn’t find anything in my playlist anymore (Actually, this
is not true. xmms’ J works excellent for finding single songs, but
grouping and getting stuff together is hard), I decided storing my
MP3/OGG-metadata in a TopicTree. Unfortunately, some of my MP3 are
not tagged, so I needed to do some ugly heuristics to find name and
title…
Ideally, I’d run something like this
musidex --random /artist/bobdylan /year/1/9/8 >playlist.m3u
and get a randomized playlist of all stuff by Bob Dylan he did in the 80’s. I tried running xmms on a playlist coming out of a FIFO, but that didn’t work. For real dynamic playlists, I’d probably need a HTTP server (WEBrick to the rescue!).
Of course, a nice frontend would rock too…
NP: Pearl Jam—Light years