[Feature Request] Better playlist selection

[the-snesler]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The playlist feature is rather difficult to activate sometimes, especially for users that aren't incredibly technically inclined. Loading a playlist is a separate command, the playlist title is case sensitive, and it's difficult to differentiate between different playlists in the list command.

What is your ideal solution to the problem?

I feel that there should be a config option to have the bot check the playlist folder before searching YouTube and pull from there instead, if there's a match.

Playlist selection shouldn't be case sensitive. The titles look better capitalized in the !playlist list command, but it's confusing to invoke them with the exact same capitalization, especially if the bot owner or admins (example being myself) are inconsistent with capitalization.

I'm unfortunately not much of a developer, but as far as I understand there's already a paginator used elsewhere that could clean up !playlist list?

How would this feature be used?

The playlist feature, while powerful, likely sees less usage because of these barriers to entry. The attached screenshots are only a couple of examples I've seen in a server with just 400 members.

Making the playlists (optionally) easier to access seems like a benefit for usability & customizability that is lacking in other music bots.

Additional Info

Thank you for this wonderful bot!! Besides this (relatively minor) issue, our community has been loving it!

Checklist

• [X] I have checked the documentation to make sure this feature doesn't already exist
• [X] I have searched for similar feature requests
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[purnell569]

i would say its just easier for them to add in the commands tutorial section !play playlist NAME (case sensitive) and then that whole problem is sorted

[the-snesler]

very true! this is admittedly a lot of work, lol. I do think the playlist list could be improved at any rate

[MichailiK]

There are 2 solutions for this:

1. Just like @TetraTsunami suggested, we make the play command look for playlists first, before falling back to searching elsewhere.
2. We add a playplaylist command. You can then create an alias for it, such as !pp.

Making playlists case-insensitive should be fairly easy to implement as well

[MichailiK]

We might actually need to go with the second option, once we start migrating JMusicBot to slash commands.

[jagrosh]

1. Just like @TetraTsunami suggested, we make the `play` command look for playlists first, before falling back to searching elsewhere.

2. We add a `playplaylist` command. You can then create an alias for it, such as `!pp`.

I think we can actually do both of these; using the separate command will exclusively search for playlists (and with slash commands, can even utilize autocomplete). When using normal play, a cached playlist list is checked first. This would also solve the request of people asking for shortcut names for tracks; they could just create playlists with a single track in it if they want to play a specific song for a specific request.