request: periodically save current playlist

[ackstorm]

Currently exaile only saves your playlist changes if you cleanly exit the program. This means if exaile crashes, or has to be killed due to a hang, your playlist changes are lost.

Because of dynamic playlist features saving at every playlist change would be unreasonable, so I am requesting that exaile periodically save the running playlist every X minutes

[ackstorm (temper)]

reacocard> perhaps "save playlist x second after last change, and at least every y
            minutes" -01:25PM-
<hednod> right -01:26PM-
<SiDi_> if you have dynamic PLs it means write to HDD every 5 secs -01:29PM-
<SiDi_> that would be insane -01:29PM-
<SiDi_> Instead we prefer having exaile never crashing ! :D -01:29PM-
<reacocard> not every 5 secs, mroe every 5 minutes -01:29PM-
<reacocard> which is still rather often -01:29PM-
<hednod> well you could ahve it save every change, but no more often than 10 minutes
         -01:29PM-
<reacocard> hm, save 1 minute after last change, no more often than every 10-15? -01:30PM-
<hednod> if no change for the last X minutes, save immediately, else wait Y minutes
         -01:31PM-
<SiDi_> and sync writes to disk with read from disk to avoid waking the HDD :P -01:31PM-
<reacocard> SiDi_: tie te save into track change signals then, perhaps -01:31PM-
<SiDi_> this could also be a base for custom playlist autosave -01:31PM-

[ackstorm (temper)]

<reacocard> along with a timer so that it still saves when not playing and when playing
            really long songs -01:32PM-
<reacocard> hm -01:32PM-
<reacocard> this would play very will with providers actually -01:32PM-
<reacocard> and we can tie the settings save and collection db save into it too -01:32PM-

[dst (dast)]

I'd also like to have such a feature. It not only happens when Exaile crashes, but it also seems to be the case when I quit the session. If I want to keep my playlist status despite a restart, I first need to manually quit Exaile before restarting.

Since I do not use dynamic playlists I would prefer something non-periodical.

[matejcik (matejcik)]

yes!
as dst said - i don't use dynamic playlists and i'd be perfectly happy with saving playlist after every change

but "save n seconds after last change, at least every X minutes" sounds good enough

[data (yavor-dobrev)]

When Exaile is being killed it does save the playlist, no problem there. But when it gets shut down, when ending a session/restart the playlist doesn't get saved.One can correct this behavior by adding the line "killall exaile" to some rc script, which gets run at shutdown. This is however not a very tidy way to do it...

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Postponed for now due to imminent RC. This needs to be thought through properly.