[SlimDevices: Plugins] POLL for AlienBBC listeners with Ubuntu Dapper
this is a poll for those who stream AlienBBC on a Ubuntu Dapper box. Given that Mplayer pre7 hangs after 4'15 and it's the only package available for Dapper: 1. you are still in the mud 2. found somewhere a pre8 or rc1 package for Dapper (please provide link) 3. compiled from source because you're a geek 4. moved to Ubuntu 6.10 or 7.04 Needless to say, I'm on number one. cheers, -Gian -- gian gian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6702 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32861 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC No Programmes Found
Thanks for the questions bpa. In answer: 1) Yes - I've followed the modification as details by the Readme.txt file for SSODS 2) No - if I select Radio4 listen again I don't get any programme listings - I get no programmes found rather than the 150 odd programmes I would expect. 3)Yes - I installed the mplayer that came with AlienBBC and it and the custom-convert.conf file have write permissions. 4) Yes - I installed the correct version of 6.5.x 5) The log file gives the following entries when I try to connect to radio1 0006: 2007-02-18 09:14:37.8927 Going to parse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio1/audiolist.shtml 0007: 2007-02-18 09:14:38.0314 Trying to open protocol stream for http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio1/audiolist.shtml 0008: 2007-02-18 09:14:38.0323 Found handler for http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio1/audiolist.shtml - using Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTP 0009: 2007-02-18 09:14:58.1478 Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.bbc.co.uk Now I've done a bit of reading up and from the wiki and the forums it suggests my DNS is wrong. However I get the impression if this were the case I wouldn't be able to use the BBC stand alone web player on the PC. This works without a hitch. Is there some way I can force an entry of IP address and DNS server address on the Squeezebox without turning off DHCP on the network? John -- John E Boy John E Boy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8334 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32804 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC No Programmes Found
The top level entries in AlienBBC are made by the plugin - the next level are retrieved from BBC so problem is getting data from internet. There was some sort of DNS issues in slimserver at system startup where slimserver starts up before the internet connections is made and DNS setup. Slimserver seemed to cache that DNS wasn't setup. There has been some fix in 6.5.2 When DS-106 is up and running - can you then stop slimserver and restart it to see if it works - if it does then it may be the DNS issue. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32804 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.54
On 12/02/07, Yannzola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off... I absolutely love Moose. Every update has been an improvement. Kudos to the good doctor. I do have a few suggestions: Would it be possible for the currently playing track to auto scroll the playlist so that the currently playing track is always displayed? It should be doing that already.. Actually, looking at it, if something's selected, then it turns off the 'auto scroll' code as the user's probably doing something elsewhere.. Is this what you're seeing ? Maybe it should auto-deselect after a time delay or something ? Would it be possible to collapse or dock the playlist somehow... leaving only the album cover, track details, and controls? I realise that I can do this manually by playing with the window size Yeah, I'm going to be adding some more features like docking the library over the playlist shortly.. It'll need an un-dock button, so adding minimise and maximise buttons makes sense too.. The minimise would shrink the playlist down.. when the playlist is totally collapsed, the play controls dissapear (rendering bug?). If you resize the window to the smallest it can be, the play controls vanish - this is kind of intentional, although probably not much use anymore. Would it be possible to add more contextual commands to the right click when on a track. Currently Refresh/Remove/Manage are displayed. How about track info (basically the same info provided by the SS web UI when a title is clicked) and play-hold plugin commands (for instance to seed MusicIP Mixer). Does this make sense. Yup.. I'll see what I can squeeze out of the CLI - MusicIP could be a problem.. I guess the popcorn button could be scripted to do this ? Sorry... one more. How about being able to view and =edit= ratings via the toast pop up? Yup, makes sense.. I best get typing ! :-) -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.54
On 14/02/07, Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm loving all the improvements to Moose. One request: could the hover popup fade in like the new track toast? Yeah, shouldnt be a problem, although the popping up mode might be more tricky as windows will think the pointer's moved off the tray icon as the window flies past.. I'll see what I can do though.. -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
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 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Request: Browse same title
tommypeters;181337 Wrote: Ought to be possible with a template in the Custom Browse Plugin...? The Custom Browse doesn't provide any menu entries when right clicking in the Now Playing menu yet, I have a point on the wish list for this but haven't got the time to implement it yet. In this particular case I feel that this could actually be standard slimserver functionality instead of a plugin, so I would suggest that someone logs it as a feature request on http://bugs.slimdevices.com -- 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=32814 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.54
I also find that if I click on the progress bar, the song changes, rather than advancing in the same song. Is this a known bug? I use Windows XP. I'll do some more checking if need be. -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32467 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] POLL for AlienBBC listeners with Ubuntu Dapper
My answer is #4, but I got the stopping at 4'15 effect after my upgrade from dapper as the repository for edgy still seemed to have only mplayer 1.07. My solution was to do 'apt-get update', and 'apt-get install mplayer' in a terminal which got me a copy of 1.08. After that the problem went away. Not sure if this would work with the standard dapper repositories but might be worth a shot. davep -- davep davep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=61 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32861 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.54
On 18/02/07, Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also find that if I click on the progress bar, the song changes, rather than advancing in the same song. Is this a known bug? I use Windows XP. I'll do some more checking if need be. Which player are you using ? I've noticed this with SoftSqueeze sometimes.. Otherwise, anything special about the file being played ? cue-sheet, mpc or anything ? -- - Dr Lovegrove Free Moose for all at: http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.54
Yes, I'm using Softsqueeze 3.3, playing a regular flac file -- no cuesheet. -- Kyle Kyle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2541 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32467 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App
Aloha, I can run the index.html file by itself and everything shows up fine. But I cannot get 6.5.1 / 6.5.2 to recognise SlimFX under Mac OS X 10.3.9. Goes fine with Mac OS X 10.4.x Anyone who has succesfully managed to install and attach SlimFX to the SlimServer in Mac OS X 10.3.9? Any suggestions to WHY the default skin loads whenever I add the /slimfx? Kind regards Sune -- Sune Sune's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] POLL for AlienBBC listeners with Ubuntu Dapper
I'm not a geek and I managed to go to RC1. I did the job with little problems. You must mess with the operating system for maximum joy. ./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu --prefix=/usr--confdir=/etc/mplayer make make install Is the basis for things, but you must make sure all the required files are in place and i had some problems with permissions of folders. The latest file for mplayer is on the mplayer website. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html. the site has a readme and extra instructions. I have moved to edgy. M. -- mudlark SB3cyrusDACXPreXvs260AKEFiQ7 cable avondale mudlark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7151 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32861 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
erland;181434 Wrote: 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. I agree this is the perfect solution. (I assume, however, that you could right-click on the track in the left-hand-side browse window, not just the playing now list.) I think this feature would be widely and greatly appreciated by classical buffs. I am just getting started tagging my classical collection but I am aware that there is a lot of frustration among classical buffs at the difficulty of managing classical music in slimserver. It seems to me that most of the difficulty arises from tension between organizing by CD and organizing by Work. The example I gave with Beethoven's 4th and 5th did not do justice to the dilemma. Many CD's feature a Performer, the Works performed are not always complete, and every track is by a different composer. In that case, organizing by Work makes a lot less sense than organizing by CD (or Performer). But you want to be consistent because there are lots of cases where it is a toss-up as to whether it is better to organize by CD or Work. With the solution you proposebeing able quickly find all the songs sharing the same CD or performer or ? as a particular songwould allow one to have a consistent tagging scheme without compromising the ease of making a sensible playlist. The upshot---I cast a very enthusiastic vote in favor of this feature. Thanks, Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC doesn't like my Linksys Router
1. AlienBBC Mplayer standalone test with a Live stream (e.g. radio 4) This worked well for over 2 hours 2. AlienBBC Mplayer standalone test with a Listen Again stream (i.e. The Archers) Slower to start than the MS router but did play fully several times. 3. AlienBBC through Squeezebox with a Live streams Not as fast to start at the MS router but radio4:fm worked well. 4. AlienBBC through Squeezebox with a Listen Again streams - ideally The Archers This test caused the most problems. Can take 20-30 seconds to start then will cut out or the player drop to the screensaver i have when i poweroff. I also had great trouble with 'from our own correspondent. It looks like it's the listen again streams at the squeezebox that are not working well. -- Limping_Pylon Limping_Pylon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8086 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32602 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Any reason Biography shouldn't work with 6.5.2?
Hi, all. I upgraded the other day to 6.5.2 and today noticed that the Biography plugin doesn't seem to be working. All I get when I select it is a blank frame with the Information provided by AllMusic logo I have to admit that I didn't test it with 6.5.2 yet, but I doubt it's a problem with slimserver. Have you increased the Radio Timeout setting in Server Settings? And please clear the plugin's cache as otherwise it will take a wrong download over and over again. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview, Biography, MusicInfoSCR ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC doesn't like my Linksys Router
Try the following. 1. Save a copy of the custom-convert.conf file in the Plugins/Alien directory in case you need to revert if this change makes no difference. 2. Using Wordpad (not notepad) edit the custom-convert.conf file in the Plugins/Alien directory and remove the -bandwidth 10 from 3 lines in the file. 3. Close and save the changed files. 4. Restart slimserver and see if there is a change. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32602 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App
The last two comments describe similar behavior. No idea why this would happen. Basically, the slimfx skin is just an html file that loads up a SWF (Flash file). (Actually, it uses another frame to load the SWF). I would expect it to work if any other skins work. I suppose it could be a caching issue, or an issue in handling redirects from the directory to the index.html file. (Not sure why this would vary by OS, though). One thing to try in either case...going directly to: http://localhost:9000/slimfx/html/slimfx.html or even http://localhost:9000/slimfx/html/slimfx.swf (after changing localhost to correct server address, of course.) -- gsamsa gsamsa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=194 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App
This looks very promising. I installed and it just worked. Not tried outside of my LAN yet. My comments...: Plugin support - It would be nice to support plugins, particularly Trackstat (in my case, everyone has their own favourites). I guess some form of generic support, i.e. taking the contributions the plugin adds to the web UI, would be best but I don't know how easy this is. Remote player - this might be out of scope, but I don't just want a controller, I want a player. When I am out of my LAN I want to be able to play music across the Internet and I hate having to maintain two applications for this. Furthermore, within my LAN I also have custom players other than a Squeezebox, e.g. set top boxes. -- Smiley Dan Smiley Dan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5456 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Any reason Biography shouldn't work with 6.5.2?
Michael Herger;181549 Wrote: Have you increased the Radio Timeout setting in Server Settings? And please clear the plugin's cache as otherwise it will take a wrong download over and over again. Thanks for your reply, Michael. I tried your suggestions and, assuming that I did them correctly, saw no difference. I clicked the clear disk cache button under the Biography section of the plugins page and increased Radio Timeout from the default of 5 seconds to 15. When I choose Biography from the plugins dropdown (using Fishbone), I just get the result described in my original post. Bill -- Squonk Squonk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9882 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32853 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App
Hi there, Just blank pages :-( I can actually add whatever I want after the /slimfx/html/. It will pretend to load it (directory, .html or .swf), but nothing actually happens (source is empty). Seems to be some kind of web-server error...but I dunno why it only happens on Mac OS X 10.3.9, not on 10.4.x. As stated before - if I, on the machine, open the actual slimfx.html file from the window manager, everything works fineexcept that there is no contact to the actual slimserver music database, that is. /Sune gsamsa;181561 Wrote: The last two comments describe similar behavior. No idea why this would happen. Basically, the slimfx skin is just an html file that loads up a SWF (Flash file). (Actually, it uses another frame to load the SWF). I would expect it to work if any other skins work. I suppose it could be a caching issue, or an issue in handling redirects from the directory to the index.html file. (Not sure why this would vary by OS, though). One thing to try in either case...going directly to: http://localhost:9000/slimfx/html/slimfx.html or even http://localhost:9000/slimfx/html/slimfx.swf (after changing localhost to correct server address, of course.) -- Sune Sune's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Server Power Control Plugin, for 6.5.1 on Win32
this works great, thanks! -- wullsy wullsy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5251 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32674 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
As I said, I am just getting started tagging my classical music, so I am keen to do it carefully so I dont have to redo it. (I did about 20 CDs, changed course several times, and decided to sit back a while and be careful about it.) Of course, how one tags depends importantly on the ability to parse the tag information in slimserver, which explains yesterdays post and this post. I am now trying to decide on how to do genre. For example, do I choose Classical;Concerto;Piano or Classical;Piano Concerto? I would choose the former if it was easy to limit searches to the intersection of Concerto and Piano. Your Genres/Sub Genres template allows me to this narrowing of songs: 1. Genre1_list 2. Genre1/Genre2_list 3. Genre1/Genre2/artistlist 4. Genre1/Genre2/artist/albumlist 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/songlist. But as explained my posting yesterday, Id like this sequence: Steps 1-4 above 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductorlist 6. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductor/songlist. This could be done with your multiplecustomtagstracks template if it allowed for five levels rather than just four. I perhaps naively was thinking I could mindlessly alter the xml files to add a fifth level to the filtering. But I had much difficulty even identifying the files that would need to be altered. I have no experience with XML, HTML, and SQL. So I understand that you dont wont to waste time with any back and forth on how I can customize your templates. But I have purchased some books and would like to gain some understanding. To this end, could you provide a schematic of the basic architecture? That is, what files do what. I promise not to pester you with any follow-up questions. I infer that slimserver/plugins/customscan/menu templates/multiplecustomtagstracks.cb.values.xml is the form which solicits the inputs I enter when I create the custom menu, and those inputs are then stored in XX/custombrowse/YY.xml, where XX is the directory I select in the slimserver settings and YY is the file name I select when I create the menu. (What do the *.template files do in slimserver/plugins/custombrowse/menu templates?) So all I can identify are xml files that solicit user inputs and the file into which those inputs are stored. Can I create a 5-level multiplecustomtagstracks menu by simply altering an input file? Dont I need to alter the program that processes the inputs? If so, where is that program? I note that earlier cutombrowse releases included notes in the readme file on how to create custom menus but your latest build does not. I suppose you are trying to avoid novice questions like mine. With regard to the notes in an earlier version, you allude to files of the form *.cb.xml. I can find no such files---only files of the form *.cb.values.xml. (Those notes refer to xml files that appear to be real programsnot just holders of inputs.) I will entirely understand if you choose to punt these questions. Thanks. Randy -- rmariger rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Custom Browse plugin
rmariger;181626 Wrote: I am now trying to decide on how to do genre. For example, do I choose Classical;Concerto;Piano or Classical;Piano Concerto? I would choose the former if it was easy to limit searches to the intersection of Concerto and Piano.If your main concern with tagging is to be able to browse the music and you have no problem using Custom Browse instead of standard slimserver browsing, I would definitely choose the Classical;Concerto;Piano route. The Genres/Sub Genres menu type may not work for you today, but I will add to the wish list to make a version which also takes a custom tag level at the end. So when you are finished with the tagging a suitable menu is probably available. New menus like this doesn't require any code changes in Custom Browse so they are quite easy for me to do. I'll add all menu types to the distribution that I feel can be useful for more than a single person, this is definitely the case with Genres/Sub Genres incl Custom Tag. At the moment I'm in the middle of some major restructuring of the Custom Browse code, so I don't have a working Custom Browse on my developing machine which makes it a bit harder to do new/changed menus in the next days/weeks. rmariger;181626 Wrote: Your Genres/Sub Genres template allows me to this narrowing of songs: 1. Genre1_list 2. Genre1/Genre2_list 3. Genre1/Genre2/artistlist 4. Genre1/Genre2/artist/albumlist 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/songlist. But as explained my posting yesterday, Id like this sequence: Steps 1-4 above 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductorlist 6. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductor/songlist. This could be done with your multiplecustomtagstracks template if it allowed for five levels rather than just four. The multiplecustomtagstracks template will not work exactly the same as Genres/Sub Genres does, the difference is that Genres/Sub Genres will list both artists and sub genres making it possible to choose tracks which just have a single genre, with the multiplecustomtagstracks the menu would only show track which have at least two genres. I'm also not completely sure if the multiplecustomtagstracks menu will work correctly if two levels are using the same tag, in this situationm level1=GENRE and level 2=GENRE. So I think it would probably be better to extend the subgenres(Genres/Sub Genres) menu type to also include a custom tag level. rmariger;181626 Wrote: I perhaps naively was thinking I could mindlessly alter the xml files to add a fifth level to the filtering. But I had much difficulty even identifying the files that would need to be altered.The different files works like this: 1. Plugins/CustomBrowse/Templates/*.template (The builtin menu type templates, the corresponding files for custom tags exist in Plugins/CustomScan/Templates/*.template) 2. Plugins/CustomBrowse/Templates/*.xml (The builtin menu type in-parameter specification, the corresponding files for custom tags exist in Plugins/CustomScan/Templates/*.template) 3. The template directory from Custom Browse settings\*.template (Downloaded menu type templates and templates added by the user) 4. The template directory from Custom Browse settings\*.xml (Downloaded menu type in-parameter specifications and in-parameter specifications added by the user) 5. The browse configuration directory from Custom Browse settings\*.cb.xml (Complete menus where the user has choosen the Customize configuration option in the web interface when editing the menu) 6. The browse configuration directory from Custom Browse settings\*.cb.values.xml (In-parameter values for complete menus where the user has NOT choosen the Customize configuration option in the web interface when editing the menu. Templates are expanded to a real menu using these in-parameter values) If you know a specific menu which you want the easiest way is to just choose to Customize configuration when editing the menu in the web interface. This will store the menu as a *.cb.xml file as described in point 5 above. This menu won't have options, so after you have choosen the Customize configuration option it will be harder to select exactly which custom tags that shall be part of the menu. But as long as you have already choosen the correct custom tags before choosing to Customize configuration this shouldn't be a problem. If you want many different menus that works the same but with different custom tags for each menu you should instead create a template by copying and renaming a suitable *.template and *.xml file from the directory as specified in point 3 and 4. I would suggest that you copy and rename instead of changing the files directly if you choose this path. I would also suggest that you remove the downloadsection*/downloadsection and downloadidentifier*/downloadidentifier parts from the file you edit, the reason is that if you don't do this there is a risk your changed menu will be overwritten if you ever hit the download links in the
