Playlists Within Playlists

 

All playlists are one-dimensional. Meaning that an item can only include a reference to a URL -- not another, full-blown list.

However, you can reference another external playlist file.

This allows you to set up playlists to behave like a directory structure.

When a reference to another external playlist is used in the "file" data set field, the item will appear within the player as a folder. Clicking the item will cause Wimpy to load the other playlist. Clicking the "back" button in the player will re-load the previous (original) XML playlist.

So for example, we could set up a "master" playlist, which contains a list of references to other playlists as:

<playlist>
	<item>
		<file>playlist-A.xml</file>
	</item>
	<item>
		<file>playlist-B.xml</file>
	</item>
	<item>
		<file>playlist-C.xml</file>
	</item>
</playlist>

 

Or as JSON:

[
{ "file": "playlist-A.json" },
{ "file": "playlist-B.json" },
{ "file": "playlist-C.json" }
]
                    

 

Or as Simple Text:

playlist-A.txt
playlist-B.txt
playlist-C.txt          

 

Or A Pipe-Delimited

playlist-A.txt|playlist-b.txt|playlist-C.txt