New command countplaylist

[jcorporation]

Count the number of songs and their total playtime in the playlist.

[MaxKellermann]

The documentation show describe the response, e.g. show an example response.
I don't like the command name, it's confusing - this sounds like counting playlists, but it actually counts the contents of the playlist. Maybe playlistsize? Slightly better, but not perfect. Can you come up with a better name? playlisttotals? (still ugly)

[jcorporation]

playlistsize sounds good for me.

[naglis]

Another option could be playlistlength, which is also used in status response to indicate the length of the playlist (queue).

[jcorporation]

Another option could be playlistlength, which is also used in status response to indicate the length of the playlist (queue).

We calculate the length and the duration with this command. playlistlength seems to explicit for me. I would vote for playlistsize, but it is the decision of @MaxKellermann.

[jcorporation]

The documentation show describe the response, e.g. show an example response.

Added a example.

[MaxKellermann]

Naming is hard. Harder than coding. :-)

What you do mean by "too explicit"? The "countplaylist" name is what I'd call too explicit (and too vague at the same time); one would expect one number as the result, the count of something, but not the duration of something.
"playlistsize" is unspecific what size is being reported, but I don't like it much because "size" can hardly about the total duration.
"playlistlength" is ambiguous enough that it can mean both "number of songs" or "total duration". Maybe that's just the ambiguity we need here.

I dislike all the names, but I dislike "playlistlength" the least.
(Oh and I hate most of the MPD protocol. Its naming scheme is a mess, but at least a mostly human-readable mess :-))

[jcorporation]

Renamed to playlistlength