ppsm wrote:

In parallel to smplayer, I use a multimedia player called ALSong.

The only reason I don't abandon ALSong is because it has a great feature. It adds in Windows explorer a context menu called "Add to ALSong's playlist" and a menu called "PLay folder in ALSong". All files in the folder and subfolders will be added to ALSong's playlist and played directly.

A similar feature in smplayer is definitely needed.

For that I think it's necessary to add something to the Windows registry. I don't know anything about Windows programming. The current code which adds some options to the Windows explorer was contributed by another person.

A patch which adds an option to the Windows explorer to add all files in a directory to the playlist is welcome (or at least that someone tells me the string that should be added to the registry).

ppsm wrote:

Besides, I like the ability of smplayer to remember the play position in a file, so it is possible to start playing a file where it was last stopped.

Maybe you could combine both features:

- a "Play folder in smplayer" context menu (or "Add to smplayer's playlist"menu)

- the ability to start again at the position of the last stop (in the playlist).


For example, if you have a playlist with 12 files and stop to listen at position  01:30 of file #2, next time you play the list using "Play folder in smplayer" context menu, smplayer would diretly go to file #2 in the list and start playing at position 01:30.

I think this also was requested:
http://smplayer.berlios.de/forums/viewt … 1538#p1538

rvm wrote:

A patch which adds an option to the Windows explorer to add all files in a directory to the playlist is welcome (or at least that someone tells me the string that should be added to the registry).

Do you mean, to add the context-menu for folders? If I'm not mistaken it's in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell. Perhaps this could be useful to know more about the registry entry:
http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/productions … prompt.htm
Or
http://windowsitpro.com/article/article … lorer.html

I think, with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell, it is possible to create a script that could get all the media files in a directory and put it in the playlist.

Before, I tried to portablize Winamp, include the explorer context-menu. I realized, it is much faster to load multiple files to Winamp using [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{46986115-84D6-459c-8F95-52DD653E532E}\LocalServer32]. If I just use /ADD \"%1\" in the registry, it will take much time to load many audio files.
Hope it helps.. somehow.

Thanks.

I'll experiment with this when I have a little bit of time.

It works, thanks for the tip. To be more specific, here are the steps that worked for me:

Under the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell, create a New Key "Play in SMPlayer".
Under the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Play in SMPlayer, create a new key "command".
Under the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Play in SMPlayer\command, create a new value (string type). Give it no name, just the value C:\Program Files\SMPlayer\smplayer.exe -add-to-playlist "%1".

The effect will be immediate, no need to reboot Windows.

The only problem with this method: if smplayer is already playing a playlist generated by this context menu, and if we point to a second folder and select "Play in SMPlayer", this will add the name of the folder to the playlist, not all playable files in the second folder. This is obviously a bug in the -add-to-playlist function. This assumes that the option Interface > Instances > "Use only one running instance of SMPlayer" is switched on.

Could this slight bug be addressed? Otherwise, this trick on Windows registry works like a charm.

I see. Could you then create a new argument of the command line that actually passes the content of a directory to a playlist?

Actually any solution exist ?

I use :

C:\Program Files\SMPlayer\smplayer.exe -add-to-playlist "%1"

but after first he add just the name directory