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dave1010	2010-07-31 , 13:04
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Originally Posted by MSHAH

is there any way to expand the recently added playlist from 30 songs, or possibly to sort the songs in order of date added?

Not very easily. I'm using find, which doesn't have any sorting options. You can get all the files modified with a certain number of days:

Code:

cd ~/MyDocs/.sounds
find -mtime -2 -iname "*.mp3" > today.m3u
find -mtime -8 -iname "*.mp3" > this-week.m3u
find -mtime -31 -iname "*.mp3" > this-month.m3u

The busybox find that comes with the N900 seems quite limited. You could install GNU find, which has a few extra options (but still no sorting).

Originally Posted by ossipena

now just pretty UI around it and people will love you instantly

That's a good plan. I don't really know any C/Qt or much Python yet. I'll have to do some learning. Anyone want to help out?

Originally Posted by kl2010

does it automatically make a playlist of any folder i add to the music folder from now on or do i have to run the code everytime

Unfortunately you have to run it each time you add any new music.

When I have some time I'll look into getting it to run automatically when the Media Player loads and/or a nice GUI. Alternatively, you could save it as a script and make it into a Queen BeeCon Widget quite easily.

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