Alternate Tonight list

[Sedge]

As I mentioned in another thread, I have a $$$ contest that I run late in the night (usually between midnight and 1 am) each week.

I.
Is there a way that we can opt to have another playlist under each singer (named "Contest" or "Special" or something) that I could add their contest song to? I'm sure I can add the requisite xml files into each singer's folder manually, but it would be nice to have new singers automagically have this list added.

II.
I would then want to be able to switch from the "Tonight" lists to the "Contest" lists, preferably from a top menu option, and have the Rotation screens change appropriately. We can perhaps test this with just having a secret pref that changes what kJams looks for as a Tonight list, but when changing a secret pref, I would probably need to restart kJams for it to register the change, and this wouldn't be ultimately desirable.

III.
This part can wait for a while, but if we could build the ability to select a Contest song into the web/iJams platform, so that singers can select their own contest song, this would be nice eventually. I only have a small handful of singers that manage their own lists, so it's not really necessary for now.

[dave]

the ability to add more playlists to a singer has been under the hood for a long time, i just haven't got around to making a UI on it. and no, adding xml files to the singer's folder in the finder won't do it (i don't think??).

once i get the arbitrary playlist adding under singers, remind me about this again and i'll put it in. but it's not very high on the list as i've never actually had a request for it.

-dave

[Sedge]

As far as other requests for this, it might be something others just hadn't thought of - I see it being pretty useful for those of us that run contests and other out-of-rotation stuff - perhaps birthday groups that want to do a little singing out of turn. So, I guess I should call on my other message board frequenters to back me up on this request and get the wheel good and squeaky.

>>Sedge

[dave]

make a new topic on this and do a poll, that'll help

[Sedge]

done and done!

[dave]