PasTim wrote: > I tried this. I set the genre to just classical. All my classical music > has 2 genres, one classical, and one the genre within that. > > It doesn't return anything when I select library views. I'm probably > being very dim, but I'm baffled. > > Still, assuming I got this to work at LMS menu level, what fields do I > look for in the database to run my custombrowse menus? I have 22 > Classical music menus, and several non-classical, all dependent on the > library. I'm willing to do the work, but how?
If you need help understanding how to define and use virtual libraries I suggest you create a separate thread for this, the people that can help you might not read my plugin thread. I cant help much myself since I havent actually been using the functionality myself. Some people use Custom Browse to browse custom tags scanned with Custom Scan and for these the built-in virtual library functionality wouldnt be enough without some coding since advance search functionality cant be used to define the library. The following thread indicated that there might be some work going on to handle custom tag scanning and browsing: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113201-Genres-moods-themes-and-styles Letting Michael and other community developers know whats missing in the virtual library functionality (in a separate thread) is a good idea. Even better if people could let them know how it can be improved to cover the functionality needed to be able to replace Multi Library and Custom Browse plugins. The disadvantage of Multi Library and Custom Browse plugins has been that due to their flexibility some users have been able to customize the browsing to their needs instead of requesting feature improvements to the standard browse menus in LMS. Some of the functionality provided by Custom Browse and Multi Library today would also be a lot easier to implement in latest LMS release due to the changes introduced together with virtual libraries under the hood. Knowing Michaels time is limited I suspect functionality missing that isnt easy to add to the core would have to be handled in third party plugins also in the future, but a new small actively maintained plugin providing a specific feature would be better than a gigantic unsupported plugin trying to do it all. Custom Browse plugin would be able to use built-in virtual libraries in theory but you would have to define the SQL/XML for each menu level yourself so I doubt it would be worth the effort considering the Custom Browse plugin also is going to break soon or later. If you still want to try the SQL/XML route the database tables for virtual libraries was defined in database schema version 19 and 20: - https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/blob/public/8.1/SQL/SQLite/schema_19_up.sql - https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/blob/public/8.1/SQL/SQLite/schema_20_up.sql You would have to join with these tables instead of the multilibrary_ tables. However, as mentioned, its going to be a lot of work if you want to create a full menu structure. Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User_Erland.html) *Starting with LMS 8.0 I no longer support my plugins/applets* ('see here for more information' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-plugins&p=998836&viewfull=1#post998836) ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483
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