pippin;275360 Wrote: > If I find out how to change ratings without TrackStat I will probably > add that functionality to iPeng, too. At the moment you would need either TrackStat or iTunes Update plugin to change ratings in SqueezeCenter, there is currently no functionality in SqueezeCenter itself for this. SqueezeCenter without plugin just implements storage of ratings imported during scanning, but doesn't provide any way to change it without writing perl code. It would be pretty worthless anyway since the ratings will be discarded anyway in the current implementation at the next SqueezeCenter rescan.
The TrackStat plugin provides the CLI/JSON commands you are using, the iTunes Update doesn't provide any similar commands yet. However, there seems to be some half finished code in iTunes Update that does similar things, only for setting the ratings though, not for getting them. The TrackStat plugin currently provide a API for other plugins which they can use if they like to hook into the TrackStat CLI/JSON commands when a rating is set. This API is currently used by the iTunes Update plugin. The result is that the following will happen when you issue a "trackstat setrating" from the iPeng skin. 1. TrackStat receives the command 2. TrackStat stores the rating in the standard SqueezeCenter tables (which will be cleared during rescan) 3. TrackStat stores the rating in its own tables (which won't be cleared during rescan) 4. TrackStat issues a call to setTrackStatRating functions defined in any other plugins. 5. The setTrackStatRating function is called in iTunes Update and it calls iTunes using its external COM/OLE interface and sets the rating in iTunes 6. TrackStat issues the "trackstat changedrating" notification (which I think the iPeng skin catches to update the rating stars in the interface). I think one of the reasons that SqueezeCenter hasn't implement rating support itself yet, is that it is starting to be complex because the scanning procedure currently start with clearing the all the standard tables in the database. This would be a bad idea if the user has modified information in the database that he likes to survive the rescan. TrackStat solves this by using separate tables for the rating information, iTunes Update solves it by using iTunes as the rating storage. In both situations the ratings will survive the rescan since the ratings aren't stored in the standard SqueezeCenter database tables that are cleared. For the rating stars in the "Now Playing" page it would be possible for the iTunes Update plugin to implement similar CLI commands as TrackStat do. It would probably be pretty simple since the core code is already there in the iTunes Update plugin, it just needs a CLI/JSON command that wrapps it. However, one thing that is important to remember is that this won't get you any ratings stars anywhere in the interface besides on the "Now Playing" screen for the currently playing track. The best solution would really be if SqueezeCenter itselfs implemented the CLI command and the notification, and TrackStat and iTunes Update just catched to notification to forward the rating to their respective storage place. I'll start a thread in the developers forum regarding this, to check if there are any interests among the developers. -- 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 Database Query 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=44114 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
