--- date: "2004-03-22T12:40:09Z" title: XMMS-Ruby and M3U ---
I wrote this little snippet of code in response to an email, and I thought it might be useful for other people.
Basically, I'm trying to write some code that will connect to a running XMMS session, grab the playlist and write out a .pls or a .m3u file. Unfortunately, while XMMS can do this in a single operation, their API doesn't seem to have a simple hook to do this.
Unfortunately, there's nothing in the remote API that lets you do that in a single call. But it should be pretty easy to write; just iterate over the list and print out the necessary lines for each entry. Something like this:
module Xmms class Remote # # get playlist contents as m3u-encoded string # def to_m3u "#EXTM3U\n" + playlist.map { |title, file, time| "#EXTINF:#{time / 1000},#{title}\n#{file}" }.join("\n") end end endThen, to save a playlist, you can just do the following:
xmms = Xmms::Remote.new File::open('path/to/output.m3u', 'w') { |out| out.puts xmms.to_m3u }Hope this helps...
Update: I tossed this code in a downloadable file, and I added an
Xmms::Remote#save_m3u
method for free. Download xmms-m3u.rb.