Managing serverside playlists from within TMS.
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:32 am
I picked up a photo frame with Wifi yesterday (well it came free with a netbook I bought). It's a Sony VGF-CP1, and very nice it is too. The screen clarify and looks are the best I have seen in ANY photo frame, the downside is you can't push media to it 
Anyway, to my point, this is my first chance I have had to use serverside playlists, as I want to setup a photo slideshow. I have my media stored on my Linux server (running TMS 5.1), I have tried using TMM 1.2 to setup playlists on the Linux server (a "3 point configuration"), and having mixed results. The main problem being that most of the times things indicate they have been added to the photo playlist, but actually haven't when I click back to the playlist the items have gone.
I realise that 3point control is unsupported (and to make matters worse, I am running a newer server than the one that ships with TMM1.2), so this may be the cause of my non-sticky playlists.
My main question, which I hope someone that's played with photoframe playlists on TMS may be able to answer is, is there any other way to manage these serverside playlists, or can it ONLY be done with TMM? Can I create other types of playlist (M3U??) that will work?
As a side note, I also discovered after spending ages getting a playlist working, that a database rebuild destorys all your serverside playlists!!! Should this be the case? If so, surely a warning dialog needs to be presented telling people this... I would have hated to have lost all my music playlists (fortunately I use M3U for music).
Anyway, to my point, this is my first chance I have had to use serverside playlists, as I want to setup a photo slideshow. I have my media stored on my Linux server (running TMS 5.1), I have tried using TMM 1.2 to setup playlists on the Linux server (a "3 point configuration"), and having mixed results. The main problem being that most of the times things indicate they have been added to the photo playlist, but actually haven't when I click back to the playlist the items have gone.
I realise that 3point control is unsupported (and to make matters worse, I am running a newer server than the one that ships with TMM1.2), so this may be the cause of my non-sticky playlists.
My main question, which I hope someone that's played with photoframe playlists on TMS may be able to answer is, is there any other way to manage these serverside playlists, or can it ONLY be done with TMM? Can I create other types of playlist (M3U??) that will work?
As a side note, I also discovered after spending ages getting a playlist working, that a database rebuild destorys all your serverside playlists!!! Should this be the case? If so, surely a warning dialog needs to be presented telling people this... I would have hated to have lost all my music playlists (fortunately I use M3U for music).