#I don't know how to title this

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fringe spruce
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Hey everyone, sorry for the title, couldn't think of something proper.

I've had an app idea on my mind for a while. I have a lot of music and I want to be able to tag them properly and also be able to create playlists from them.

I've been working on it for a while and I recently finished the tagging part of things and it works amazingly.

But I'm having issues with creating the playlists.

I've thought of 2 ways to achieve it so far;

  1. Simply "open" the files with the default associated application.

Which was much more complicated than I thought. I want to use my program both in Windows and Linux. The last commands I came to for linux was "posix_spawn" and for Windows it was "ShellExecute". Both have security issues, permission issues and such.

  1. Create playlist files

Cross-platform but not cross-media players 😄 Also doesn't need bunch of permissions and won't light up Windows' anti-virus stuff. But then I'd have to deal with each player's own playlist format (such as VLC, windows media player, etc.)

How do you guys think I should achieve this? So far I think the best solution seems to be creating playlist files but I just wanted to hear some ideas.

Thank you.

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marsh plaza
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Probably use a multimedia library to play the songs directly

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The directory/path problem is a bit more complicated but you only really need to get the absolute path to files using some file picker.

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Well... At least that's what I would do