Phil Meyer;151809 Wrote: > Yes, the menu does appear and it seems to work. One caveat to that is > that the quality of the "Similar Artists" seems a bit dodgy - I browsed > to Astralasia [ambient electronic techno type stuff], and got > suggestions for Kelly Clarkson, Evanescence and Britney Spears!I'm not sure > how LastFM calculates this, I suspect it might be that many people listen on both Astralasia and Britney Spears or something. Anyway, there is a property in the settings page of Custom Scan where you can raise the level of similarity included, by default its set to 80, its a number between 0-100 where 100 should mean very similar. You might also check to lookup the artist at lastfm and select similar artists and see if you get the same artists, if you don't there might be a bug in Custom Scan. When I lookup Astralasia on LastFM it doesn't seem to show Britney Spears at all as a similar artist (which probably is correct).
Have you rescanned slimserver after you run the Custom Scan scanning ? Custom Scan should refresh the artist identifiers after a slimserver scan but there might be something wrong here that is causing this. Phil Meyer;151809 Wrote: > I also manually created the LastFM Tags menu to see if that worked. It > returns a list of 171 tags - I assume that these are meant to be only > the tags retrieved from LastFM for each of the tracks that I have in my > library? I noticed that some of the tags I clicked on returned no > matching songs. > This is a bug in the menu template, thanks for reporting. I think the problem is that it lists tags both for real artists and other type of contributors such as conductors and composers. When you right click on a selected tag it only lists the real artists which might result in empty tags if there are no real artists related to that tag. The correct behavior would be to only list tags related to real artists on the top level. Phil Meyer;151809 Wrote: > I don't seem to be able to create any new menus. I've tried adding an > "everyone" permission to that folder, to ensure that my Windows XP > service (running as local system account) has write permission, but it > still didn't work. > I'm not sure this is a permission issue, but since I can't reproduce it at my end I would appreciate if you could try to startup slimserver manually and see if it works better. You could also look in the log and see if you see any other errors then the one you already mentioned. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29156 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
