Best way to edit .zpl files? help!
Hello! I have a Windows phone, and the playlist extension is .zpl, what I want to do is to make a new playlist and add my own files to it.
This is what it looks like:
<?zpl version="2.0"?>
<smil>
<head>
<guid>{0205EBCA-12CF-458D-BCD5-B1AF6A421940}</guid>
<meta name="autoRefreshInterval" content="5" />
<meta name="autoRefresh" content="FALSE" />
<meta name="creatorId" content="{E9F04267-F937-1EBC-615D-64DD6C3CD144}" />
<meta name="averageRating" content="9" />
<meta name="totalDuration" content="49548 (In seconds)" />
<meta name="itemCount" content="" />
<meta name="generator" content="Zune -- 4.8.2345.0" />
<title>SummerNstuff</title>
</head>
<body>
<seq>
<media src="Searchway" serviceId="{FBDE3507-0100-11DB-89CA-0019B92A3933(what is this?)}" albumTitle="Albumtitle" albumArtist="Artist" trackTitle="Trackname" trackArtist="TrackArtist" duration="In Millisecond" />
</seq>
</body>
</smil>
What should I use? An XML writer or some sort of writer?
And, how should I do it? Thanks in advance!!
-tokfrans
Re: Best way to edit .zpl files? help!
It's plain text when all's said and done so you can use any text editing method to produce it. Your problem is going to be ensuring that you have all the information, some of which looks like it is obtained online (rating etc.), some calculated. The principal difficulty would be in obtaining the correct GUIDs. If you do not know where and how these are obtained, it's a bit of a non-starter.
Re: Best way to edit .zpl files? help!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
dunfiddlin
It's plain text when all's said and done so you can use any text editing method to produce it. Your problem is going to be ensuring that you have all the information, some of which looks like it is obtained online (rating etc.), some calculated. The principal difficulty would be in obtaining the correct GUIDs. If you do not know where and how these are obtained, it's a bit of a non-starter.
The rating is something private, not on the internet ;) (I miss clicked and rated a song by accident which is in the playlist, thus making the rating 9)
And the for the GUID's, can't I just create an empty playlist in Zune and just copy the information in it, and add/del songs from it? Cause when I update a playlist in Zune, the GUID doesn't change. Seems to be an 'one time thing'
But thanks for the help. I know that it's going to be quite hard to obtain the artist info and stuff, but I found a library that reads ID3 & ID3v2 tags so I think I'll manage!
Thanks again
-Tokfrans
EDIT: didn't see that there was a GUID on the song too, I'll ask on MDSN for further help with that, see if anyone of them can figure it out!
