[ILUG] New version of playlistfs

[Vijay Gill]

Hi all,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/playlistfs/

I developed this Fuse based FS some time ago and I use it for managing
my playlists. A brief intro again for those who do not know about
playlistfs.

I have /myth/music directory on my Linux machine and I wanted to
manage my play lists (.m3u files) for my ipod from my windows machine.
Using playlistfs I mount /myth/music onto /mnt/plfs which is shared
out using samba. So I can access it from my windows machines.

Point to note is that I have all my play lists (.m3u files) created in
/myth/music

Now after mounting /myth/music on /mnt/plfs I get /mnt/plfs/playlists
and /mnt/plfs/music.

/mnt/plfs/music is just the replica of /myth/music. It is read-only.

/mnt/plfs/playlists is a directory which shows all m3u files in
/myth/music as folders. Files enlisted in those .m3u files are shown
as files which users can double click to play.

Here are the operations allowed on /playlists tree:

1: Create directory: under /playlists, if you create a directory, a
file is created with .m3u extension in /myth/music.
     In other words mkdir /mnt/plfs/playlists/abc will create abc.m3u
in /myth/music (also visible from /mnt/plfs/music

2.  Delete directory: the corresponding .m3u file is deleted.
3.  Delete a file from a directory under /playlists, the corresponding
line from the corresponding .m3u file is deleted. The under lying file
is not affected.
4.  Any file dragged and dropped from /music into a folder under
/playlists adds that file to the playlist. It does not get moved
physically.

This way I can create/delete/modify my playlists from my windows explorer.

Any problems, just drop me a mail.


Vijay

How to use playlistfs

1. download the source, and compile it (configure & make ....). you
will get plfs binary in src directory.
2. You can use it in two ways
   a.  from command line (e.g. plfs /myth/music /mnt/plfs. In this
example it mounts /myth/music to /mnt/plfs)
   b.  from fstab. In order to do it you have to carry out following two steps
      i.  Move plfs binary to /sbin/mount.plfs
      ii  Add the following line to /etc/fstab
            /myth/music             /mnt/plfs               plfs
defaults        0 0