In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DSw wrote: > How about a single tickbox to choose whether you want inclusive or > exclusive behaviour?
dBpowerAMP Audio player (dAP - www.dbpoweramp.com) handles this in a really nice way IMO. A tick box has three states - '-', '+' and space. '-' means don't include any track that has this genre, '+' means do include any track that has this genre and space means I don't care. These can be applied to artists and genres making a really powerful selection mechanism. Unfortunately, in it's current release, it will only handle a single genre in the tag although the database will hold many genres (only the first gets written to the tag). Selection configurations can then be saved and reloaded so, for example, I added a dAP db tag of zBL to any tag that contains bad language and created a selection criteria that excludes it. Whenever we had adults who might be offended by it or children in the house I'd loaded the 'no bad language' selection criteria. I did similar things for Exercising and parties. Unfortunately there's no way I know of to feed dAP output into SoftSqueeze or Squeezeboxes so it doesn't help much but it might give programmers ideas. I'm staggered there's nothing around to take the output destined for the audio card and turn it into some sort of input that can be used for other programs on the PC (such as Slim). I had a play with Shoutcast but didn't get anywhere although that may have just been me of course! I confess I like the flexibility and usability of dAP so much that if there was any way to feed its output into the Slim system I wouldn't use any other way of playing my music. Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
