Are there plugins to replace the playlist window?

[renfrow]

Are there plugins to replace the playlist window? The playlist plugins seem to be only for loading/saving the contents of playlist files. I want something to replace the playlist window. I HATE this method of creating playlists. I'd prefer a two paned window with the left pane being a file system browser and the right pane being the playlist. Drag and drop of folders from the left pane to the right pane, and drag and drop within the playlist pane.

Failing that, is there any way (like, perferably, with a socket) to communicate with QCD? I've written this exact window for a java app, and could easily use it as an external playlist controller.

Thanks!

Tom.

[Protocol]

I realise that you are asking for this feature in QCD, so this may not be what you are looking for, but QMP does basically what you are asking for. QMP has a media library (unlike QCD) that you can populate and then drag and drop tracks from the media library into the playlist. Once you change the default setting, you can also double click tracks to add them to the playlist.

By the way Paul. Could we make "double click to add tracks to playlist" the default setting?

[Toe]

Indeed, in QMP you can just set the left-hand pane to filesystem view and away ya go. I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for, as the playlist ends up in a floating window. (Matt has said that will probably change) But it's probably a good bit closer to what you want than QCD 4.51 at least. I'm probably going to be putting in a couple feature requests regarding the filesystem view, myself.

The link to the dev build is on the front page. It's still beta (or maybe alpha, since it's not feature complete, but whatever) but it's still fairly stable. :)

[Protocol]

Indeed, in QMP you can just set the left-hand pane to filesystem view and away ya go. I don't think it's exactly what you're looking for, as the playlist ends up in a floating window. (Matt has said that will probably change) But it's probably a good bit closer to what you want than QCD 4.51 at least. I'm probably going to be putting in a couple feature requests regarding the filesystem view, myself.

The link to the dev build is on the front page. It's still beta (or maybe alpha, since it's not feature complete, but whatever) but it's still fairly stable. :)
Toe. Although it is not ideal, you can set the player to medium mode and then manually resize the player, playlist and media library windows to fill the screen and basically have it set as if the playlist window is docked. See here (http://www.quinnware.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1335&stc=1) on how idefiXX has it laid out.

[Toe]

Yeah, I saw that pic too, but I'd prefer something that's all in one window, and stays together when resized. Which reminds me of another feature request I'll probably put in one of these days... :cheeky:

[Protocol]

Yeah, I saw that pic too, but I'd prefer something that's all in one window, and stays together when resized. Which reminds me of another feature request I'll probably put in one of these days... :cheeky:
Yes. I would too. But I will use it that way until there is an improvement. Actually, the windows all snap together and snap to the edge of the screen quite nicely.

[Tokelil]

Failing that, is there any way (like, perferably, with a socket) to communicate with QCD? I've written this exact window for a java app, and could easily use it as an external playlist controller.There's no good way to get info from QCD atm. You can send WM_COMMAND messages to it, but there's no way to get the playlist through that.

Writing a plug-in to expose a socket probably wouldn't be difficult. There's a SDK in the Devzone if you can write C.