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My dream is this:
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But, alas, that continues to be my dream.

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Well, this isn't to far of...

I don't use .m3u for my playlists;
And everything is in a (MySQL) database,
but if I plugin my Empeg at home the dhcp-deamon triggers my updater.
And that injects the changes onto my player (via hijack and ftp).

Only things not working is updating the database,
but that is soon to be there.

I'll still have to rework the database format (6NF was too much ),
but then I'll post the stuff....

ah yes,
generating .m3u from the database is very easy...