Autoplaylists - adding podcast URLs

[DigitalBoy]

I've searched and tried different methods but can't get this to work. How can you create an autoplaylist with the podcast URLs for non-downloaded podcasts? For podcasts downloaded into your library this is easy, just like adding regular tracks. For for podcasts you subscribe to, but not downloaded I can't get them to appear in an autoplaylist.

You can do it manually by highlighting the URL in the podcast node, send to, playlist and it works fine. Of course this doesn't include new podcasts so it's impossible to have an up to date playlist.

Any ideas?

Thanks
db

[nohitter151]

I don't think its possible, as far as I know you can only make auto-playlists of tracks that actually exist in the library.

[DigitalBoy]

thanks for the reply, but that doesn't make sense. If you can create a playlist of these manually, surely you can do it automatically. MM knows about the file, it is in library, but it's listed as an http URL rather than a UNC path.

So I'm clear, I don't mean every podcast in the universe, only those you are currently subscribing to. So MM 'knows' about them. They are displayed in the GUI. They are in the MM.db so they are queryable. Autoplaylists simply execute SQL on the database as far as I can tell. That's all that's needed here.

I would think an autoplaylist of podcasts would be an extremely useful feature. You could have a playlist of any podcast with 'MediaMonkey' in the title or description for example. You wouldn't have to manually search through thousands of files to find them. I subscribe to hundreds of podcasts (thousands of episodes) but only have time to listen to key ones. Problem is, I can't automatically single out the ones I want (using Autoplaylists).

I don't want to be forced to download terabytes of data just to find the ones I want.

db

[nohitter151]

thanks for the reply, but that doesn't make sense. If you can create a playlist of these manually, surely you can do it automatically. MM knows about the file, it is in library, but it's listed as an http URL rather than a UNC path.

So I'm clear, I don't mean every podcast in the universe, only those you are currently subscribing to. So MM 'knows' about them. They are displayed in the GUI. They are in the MM.db so they are queryable. Autoplaylists simply execute SQL on the database as far as I can tell. That's all that's needed here.

I would think an autoplaylist of podcasts would be an extremely useful feature. You could have a playlist of any podcast with 'MediaMonkey' in the title or description for example. You wouldn't have to manually search through thousands of files to find them. I subscribe to hundreds of podcasts (thousands of episodes) but only have time to listen to key ones. Problem is, I can't automatically single out the ones I want (using Autoplaylists).

I don't want to be forced to download terabytes of data just to find the ones I want.

db

What I meant to say is that I don't think there are auto-playlist criteria to find unavailable podcast tracks.

[DigitalBoy]

yep, I think you're right (unless I'm just not seeing it). I'm just asking the question. Smells like an oversight to me. Would be veerrryy useful functionality.

What about scripting? I couldn't find any podcast related objects. Any ideas how podcasts are exposed?

thx
db