rmariger;181384 Wrote: > (1) Question: I have successfully set up a menu using > customscan/custombrowse that narrows from Artistlist to > Artist/Albumlist to Artist/Album/Conductorlist to > Artist/Album/Conductor/Songlist. That is a four-step narrowing of > songs. > > After narrowing songs in this manner, Id like to be able to click on a > song from step 4 and get a CDlist (I have a tag called CD and in my > case only one CD would match a particular Artist/Album/Conductor/Song), > and then click on a CD (the only CD in my case) to get a songlist. That > is, the final two steps would be Artist/Album/Conductor/Song/CDlist and > Artist/Album/Conductor/Song/CD/songlist. > > Is this possible? I think it would be very useful for classical > collections. Most people advocate organizing classical by works rather > than CDs. For example, I have a CD that includes Beethovens 4th and > 5th symphonies with conductor Ferencsik. I have divided the CD into > two albums, one for the 4th and one for the 5th. However, Im thinking > there will be instances when I want to play the CD in its entirety. I > might narrow down to the songs in Beethovens 5th conducted by > Ferenscik and at that point wonder what CD it is from. I could then > click on any of the 4 songs (movements) of the 5th and have the CD > revealed. And if I want to play the CD, I could then click on the CD > to get all the songs on the CD. > It is not possible with the predefined menu types, but if you choose to customize the menu XML you can do it already today. The configuration XML is a bit cryptical so it might not be easy to do.
The real solution here would be to make it possible to add custom tag in the track details part of the menu. This way it would also be possible to right click in the "Now Playing" menu to get the CD of the currently playing track and right click again to the all tracks on the CD. I have this on the todo list and my intention is to try to implement it, I just have to find some time to do the work. rmariger;181384 Wrote: > > 2. Suggestion: With regard to 4-step narrowing of songs referred to > above, the conductorlist does not include none. Would it be possible > to include a none" category for each customtag? This would be helpful > for identifying missing tags.I think it can be done already today by > customizing the menu XML, but I think this might actually be useful to have in the default "Custom Multiple Tags Songs" template so I'll add it to the wish list. rmariger;181384 Wrote: > 3. Suggestion: It might be helpful to point out that the 4-step > narrowing scheme I alluded to above requires that artist, album, and > conductor be included in the list of custom tags to be scanned by > customscan. I initially assumed that because the standard slimserver > software scans artist and album, it wasnt necessary to specify them as > custom tags.It is possible to use the standard slimserver information, but the current menu template for "Custom Multiple Tags Songs" doesn't do it. I think it might be a good idea to have a menu template like: Artists/Albums/<customtag>/Songs I'll add this to the wish list. Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043
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