>> I guess you'd have to know
>> when the track stopped and next one started and pass
>> it onto the receiver as the next song in the playlist.
>Philip and I discussed forcing a new track on the Rio between Shoutcast >tracks, but it would have been a nasty kludge.

Yeah, I figured as such. It'd still be quite useful IMHO.

>> anyway to setup album/artists playlists without actually
>> making .m3u/.pls files.
>Dynamic playlists can do that.

Unfortunately, that still involves setting up a playlist myself for each artist/album. I don't want to do that my hand if possible. If the scanning could do that itself, basically bypassing the Receiver's Artist or Album selection. For me to get to an album I'd do Playlist->Pink Floyd->Animals->Play All, instead of Albums->Animals->Play All or Artist->Pink Floyd->???.

>> I can use the recievers UI to select artists, but once
>> I look for albums I don't have the artists names
>> available anymore.
>That's a limitation of the Rio's menuing system.

But I'd know which artist I've selected from previoiusly if it was in hierarchical playlists, so it wouldn't have to display it. I'll look at some of the Java code later to see if I can do what I mean there or through more (scripted) SQL. I'd only want the artists listed that I have whole albums for, not artists from compilations (like it shows up now in the Artists menu). Compilations would showup as artist='Compilations' or something similar.

-sml