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Can I put comments in mpd playlist?

The title says it all...

Running Ubuntu 12.04 and the mpd daemon.

I am writing some scripts to manipulate the playlists (for my wife and me,) and it would be handy to have comments in the playlist rather then create a separate log file.

So, canI, canI, canI???

Straight from my 5 year old.

Solution

  • You cannot. Here is the full list of all MPD commands related to stored playlists:

    • listplaylist {NAME}
    • listplaylistinfo {NAME}
    • listplaylists
    • load {NAME} [START:END]
    • playlistadd {NAME} {URI}
    • playlistclear {NAME}
    • playlistdelete {NAME} {SONGPOS}
    • playlistmove {NAME} {FROM} {TO}
    • rename {NAME} {NEW_NAME}
    • rm {NAME}
    • save {NAME}

    You can use "stickers" to associate arbitrary information per song, but sadly (and inexplicably) you cannot (yet?) associate stickers with playlists.

    You can also read all comments from a song file using readcomments.