allow to browse the file system for audio files
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- D16194: move metadata scanning to trackslistener
Tried this from master and it works really well. The thing that gets excites me the most is that Elisa can now play MOD files! I can confirm that .xm, .it, .mod and .s3m formats work. MIDI files are also recognized and shown but they failed to play for me.
The only issue I found is that since these files don't have ID3 tags, elisa doesn't show anything any info in the playlist. It'd be nice to just get the filename. It would probably help for other formats that don't have tags too (like wav).
I know it's not a core/important feature for Elisa but it's really nice to also be able to play all that old music.
Some notes from testing:
- All names are in bold. This follows Elisa's convention but it looks kind of jarring here. Specially since there is no second line of information.
- Names in both dolphin and elisa are aligned to the center
- .m3u files are also recognized but they can't be played. Maybe it would be nice to have them replace or add to the current playlist, but for the moment I think it's be best to just hide them.
- Another good future feature would be adding/playing directories recursively
sorry for the late response, I lost track when I was busy with work.
- All names are in bold. This follows Elisa's convention but it looks kind of jarring here. Specially since there is no second line of information.
I think I would like to keep this way for the sake of consistency
- Names in both dolphin and elisa are aligned to the center
Do you mean this as a wish? They are left aligned, which is also consistent with the other views.
- .m3u files are also recognized but they can't be played. Maybe it would be nice to have them replace or add to the current playlist, but for the moment I think it's be best to just hide them.
Since we have all the infrastructure in place, this hopefully won't be too hard implementing it. I'll see what I can do.
- Another good future feature would be adding/playing directories recursively
Likely a little bit more work :)
Yeah sorry, I don't why I thought text was center aligned in elisa too (maybe I had that on some random branch).
No problem :)