09-09-2020, 11:53 AM
(09-09-2020, 09:51 AM)the_bertrum Wrote: As someone who does not use playlists much I find I have a cognitive block when it comes to understanding their management. I tend to have a simplistic view of "Play this now/Play this after the current track/Play this when the current list is finished" MPD seems to rely on the concept of a playlist for all sorts of things that to my mind are odd. A playlist of radio stations for example, why? A station feed never ends so you never advance to the next item - it baffles me.
I can understand the interpretation that @TookaFace gave though.
MPD's use of the term "Playlist" to denote both stored Playlists and it's own internal play queue is a part of its distant past when its protocol was first designed.
The maintainer has begun to introduce the term Queue in the MPD documentation whenever referring to its internal play queue but unfortunately its command protocol uses the term "playlist" for commands that manipulate both the Queue and stored playlists. https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/protoco...#the-queue
The term "play queue" or just Queue is also being introduced in the moOde documentation.