pls file

[bobbie]

How could you use a pls file with ams like shoutcast uses.

[playlist]
numberofentries=3
File1=http://209.51.162.170:9002
Title1=(#1 - 47/700) [9412] 9412 - The Rock Station. More Live DJs than any other station on the Internet!
Length1=-1
File2=http://216.110.12.110:8100
Title2=(#2 - 9/100) [9412] 9412 - The Rock Station. More Live DJs than any other station on the Internet!
Length2=-1
File3=http://195.225.46.202:9000
Title3=(#3 - 111/1000) [9412] 9412 - The Rock Station. More Live DJs than any other station on the Internet!
Length3=-1
Version=2

Thats a pls file .

[Corey]

One idea would be to convert it to an .m3u file on the fly and serve it in the Windows Media Player...

http://www.scvi.net/pls.htm

[bobbie]

How would you convert it?

[Corey]

Based upon what that link says they are both just plain text files with a slightly different format so I'd just figure it out the long way personally.

[bobbie]

Thanks Corey, I'm looking for some converter right now but if I can't find one I may try to do one in autohotkey.

[azmanar]

Thanks Corey, I'm looking for some converter right now but if I can't find one I may try to do one in autohotkey.

Bobbie,

I think you can use http.download for the PLS file somewhere to a Temp folder, and then parse the data to your ListBox, Tree or Combo.

[Intrigued]

INI Actions use time on that file?

[Intrigued]

Here is a very basic (but working) example using the Debug ('ger) object for output.

http://www.amsuser.com/ams/examples/...-Intrigued.apz

What I did:

I copied the data you posted into a text file and saved it with the .ini extension.

Then I put that file into a blank AMS 6 project's Docs folder.

Then I put the following code in the On Show event area:

Debug.ShowWindow(true)

Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "numberofentries").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File1").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Title1").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Length1").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File2").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Title2").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Length2").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File3").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Title3").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Length3").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Version").."\r\n")

[Intrigued]

Updated!

I just included the MediaPlayer (no error checking though) to show how to play one of the ('File1') file paths supplied in the config. file you posted.



(redownload the .apz if needed)

Updated code:

Debug.ShowWindow(true)

Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "numberofentries").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File1").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Title1").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Length1").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File2").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Title2").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Length2").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File3").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Title3").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Length3").."\r\n")
Debug.Print(INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "Version").."\r\n")

MediaPlayer.Load("Plugin1", INIFile.GetValue("AutoPlay\\Docs\\test.ini", "playlist", "File1"))

MediaPlayer.Play("Plugin1")

[bobbie]

Thank you, will have a look at this.

[Intrigued]

NP. If you need too... just make a copy of the .pls (?) file and rename it with a .ini extension to use this project's code.