Re:Show HN: Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I ...
by StavrosK on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:07PM
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> The introduction sounds much more ambitious than your comment
It aims to be more flexible, but it doesn't specifically aim to replace them. I don't mind players using M3U, PLS, or whatever else, I just want the extra features that UPL would provide. I guess it's a fine distinction.
> I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that?
Well, if Google Play allowed me to export my playlists as UPL, my local foobar2000 could easily find the tracks in my local library (I already have them all) and correlate which tracks on Google Play are which tracks locally. As it stands, I have to go into my Google Play playlist, find the thousands of songs in my playlists one by one locally, and add them to my local playlists as I find them.
It aims to be more flexible, but it doesn't specifically aim to replace them. I don't mind players using M3U, PLS, or whatever else, I just want the extra features that UPL would provide. I guess it's a fine distinction.
> I am really curious about moving from Google Play to a local library, though - can you say more about that?
Well, if Google Play allowed me to export my playlists as UPL, my local foobar2000 could easily find the tracks in my local library (I already have them all) and correlate which tracks on Google Play are which tracks locally. As it stands, I have to go into my Google Play playlist, find the thousands of songs in my playlists one by one locally, and add them to my local playlists as I find them.