>I gave up on MusicIP a while back for a few reasonsÂ… one, because it >always seemed to cause weirdness in my music library, like albums >listed twice with songs split between the two listings and rescans took >forever. > That sounds very fixable.
I didn't like the way that the MusicIP plugin messed with the content of my SC library, so I changed the plugin. With my patch, it's possible to configure it so that it only uses MIP to determine if a track is mixable; i.e. it won't then read the MIP library tags at all. This also radically improved the SC library scan time (especially scans for new files). >Another reason is that I have a lot of music in my library that >I don't care to hear in mixes. > I can immediately think of solutions for that: 1) configure an MIP filter to eg. not play music in a certain genre, by a certain artist, less than a certain duration, etc. Then configure the plugin to only make mixes based on that filter. 2) use CustomSkip to skip songs in SC that don't meet your requirements. >MIP can filter by ratings, but it can't >read ratings from tags. So when I used MusicIP before, it was a pain >always trying to keep ratings in sync with my files and MIP. > I find that the MIP libarary is automatically fed ratings set from SC (via TrackStat). I must admit that I don't know how this happens (is this via MusicIP plugin or TrackStat or CustomScan?). The first time I used CustomScan to export ratings to MusicIP. This took a little while to copy stats across, but since then whenever I set a rating in SC (or play a track), the stats are synced across automatically to MIP too. >Have there been any new developments that would enable what I want to >do, which is only have MIP use songs that have a 3 or higher rating? Yes. In MIP, set a filter to match songs where rating is greater than 2. In SC, create a mix based on that filter. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
