I am trying to replicate one of the great features of the MusicMatch
software within YME, and I am running into a brick wall.

MusicMatch has the ability to export information about any playlist in
a variety of formats (text, XLS, etc.). Some formats have lots of
detail, some very little. YME does not seem to have that feature.

I saw the Excel plug-in, but it does not do everything that the old
MusicMatch exports would do, plus it relies on a pesky automation
interface to Excel. I am an OpenOffice user and would rather not rely
on Excel.

Here is the problem: I am writing a web plug-in, and I have the basic
playlist information loaded up and working. I can get the ToXML
function to work, and I can get specific columns of data about the
playlist.

My problem is that I cannot figure out how to write this great data
out to a file. It might be some kind of security setting for web-based
plug ins, but I cannot find a way to write a local file with the XML
or the playlist data in a tab-separated format. If there is no
workaround I might simply have the plug-in write the information to a
text box. I can always copy-and-paste from the text box into a text
editor, but that seems silly.

The techniques I have used so far include trying to create an ActiveX
File System Object using the following statement:
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
I get an error that it cannot create the ActiveX object.

I also tried using the built-in ExportPlaylist2 function, but it
always returns "false" (unable to complete the export).

Any ideas about what might work here? I thought the web plug-ins
operated in a "trusted" zone where we would have access to file I/O.
If not, I guess I will have to copy-and-paste or work on a DLL-based
plug-in.

--Alex