LMS sync still working, so here are some comments on the beta version. I
think it is a great improvement for classical music lovers. Personally,
I like the hierarchical view, it does take up a lot less space than the
"panel" type of view and the "+" signs for expansion are reasonably
intuitive. It does limit you to 2 levels - whether this is an issue or
not will become apparent after a bit more usage (personally I would be
inclined to go for 3 levels). At present I use Custom Browse with
dynamic menus which effectively allows infinite levels, but I think that
this approach is overly complex. However, I am having some data/indexing
problems. For example, I have a 3 CD box set of 5 Beethoven Piano
Concertos by Alfred Brendel. The tags for this are as follows: Each
track has the opus and movement information. The album has the Composer
and opus information, e.g. "Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op.
15" (this is for display purposes on squeezebox touch). There are custom
tags for Opus, CDName (e.g."Beethoven:The 5 Piano Concertos [Brendel &
Rattle], Disc 1"), and Instrument ("Piano"). The genre is "Concerto",
which is listed in "options" as a classical genre. The custom tags are
also declared in "options". The tracks are stored in folders (one for
each CD) along with the cover art. Using the EditID from dbpoweramp
verifies that all the tags are consistent for every track and that the
cover art is linked to all the tracks. Using custom browse, I can drill
down by composer, genre, opus, instrument etc and consistently get to
any of the concertos, complete with cover art. Foobar works similarly
well (with the "panel"-style drill-down). In Muso 1.5, however, if I
select "composer" under the hierarchy and click on the "Beethoven" node,
I can see all 5 concertos shown as albums, but No.s 1-4 (Discs 1 & 2)
have no artwork, whereas No. 5 does have artwork. If I then drill down
by, say genre or instrument or Opus, then only No.5 appears - No.s 1-4
are not listed. If I select No.5, then the others are shown under "more
by this artist". If I go to "edit tracks" then no data inconsistencies
are apparent, so it would seem to be something to do with how the
hierarchies are being indexed. It seems to make no difference whether I
sync with LMS or import the folders directly. Hope that is reasonably
clear, but happy to explain further or run more tests.------------------------------------------------------------------------ MDE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49291 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91575 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
