Re: [slim] Album Catalogue

2013-03-10 Thread amey01
erland wrote: > If you just need a comma separated text lite you might be able to use > the Database Query plugin, it contains a report that lists albums > together with release year and artist and you can export it to a csv > file which can be imported in Excel or similar tool for nice formattin

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue

2013-03-10 Thread erland
If you just need a comma separated text lite you might be able to use the Database Query plugin, it contains a report that lists albums together with release year and artist and you can export it to a csv file which can be imported in Excel or similar tool for nice formatting. --

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue

2013-03-10 Thread DJanGo
amey01 wrote: > Hi all, > > I was using ACC (Album Catalog Creator) which was excellent, but of > course not updated for SQLLite. > > So is there any alternative which anyone is using for SQLLite based > servers. All I need is a basic album list. You can also change back sqlite to mysql if a

[slim] Album Catalogue

2013-03-09 Thread amey01
Hi all, I was using ACC (Album Catalog Creator) which was excellent, but of course not updated for SQLLite. So is there any alternative which anyone is using for SQLLite based servers. All I need is a basic album list.

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread srasher
adhawkins;381000 Wrote: > Hi, > > In article forums.slimdevices.com>, > srasher forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would > prefer > > the option to sort the albums in the well-known "Artist -> Year -> > > Album" way as possible in the S

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article , SilverRS8 wrote: > Ofcourse I don't mind the development of this new initiative but why > use the same name? This is only confusing to users. The thread title isn't really indicative of the name of the software. It's currently called 'slimxmlcat'. Good point though,

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
adhawkins;263465 Wrote: > Hi, > > In article forums.slimdevices.com>, > buck forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > Is this similar to the project on this thread? > > > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 > > It's similar, yes. However, for one reason and another I prefer my > a

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article , srasher wrote: > *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would prefer > the option to sort the albums in the well-known "Artist -> Year -> > Album" way as possible in the SC album view. Of course, it might be > best to make this an additional option..

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article , rfreedman wrote: > I reworked the xsl stylesheet. > It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. > Note that the forEach construct is very expensive, and generally > frowned upon. > > I attached the new stylesheet, as well as some python code to d

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-08 Thread srasher
srasher;380807 Wrote: > Great! I definitely vote for the approach with divs instead of tables, > should make it much easier to create customized style versions! > > From your initial work and your mention of big experience with XSLT & > Co. I'll try a bit around with that but won't interfer much

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-07 Thread srasher
rfreedman;380765 Wrote: > I reworked the xsl stylesheet. > It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. > Note that the forEach construct is very expensive, and generally > frowned upon. > > I attached the new stylesheet, as well as some python code to do the > transform. >

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-07 Thread rfreedman
I reworked the xsl stylesheet. It produces the same output as before, but is much more efficient. Note that the forEach construct is very expensive, and generally frowned upon. I attached the new stylesheet, as well as some python code to do the transform. I think that you should consider doing t

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-07 Thread Andy Hawkins
In article , srasher wrote: > thanks for the upload! I fetched it and will test/look through it > extensively tomorrow. No problem, let me know how you get on. Andy ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevi

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread srasher
> Ok, I've put an early alpha up. It can be downloaded here: > > http://software.gently.org.uk/slimxmlcat/slimxmlcat-0.01.tar.gz > > Included is a very simple XSL transformation stylesheet that will > produce a > very basic list of albums and their cover art. I'd definitely > appreciate > some h

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article , Andy Hawkins wrote: > I'll get an early alpha version packaged up, and make it available for > download for people to try if they're interested. Watch this space. Ok, I've put an early alpha up. It can be downloaded here: http://software.gently.org.uk/slimxmlcat/slimx

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article , rfreedman wrote: > I'm interested too. > While I'm not fluent in Python, I'm sure that I can get by. > I do have a lot of XSLT experience, though, so if you can give me an > idea of what you want the output to look like, I'd be happy to help > out. XSLT experience is

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread rfreedman
adhawkins;379896 Wrote: > Hi, > > In article forums.slimdevices.com>, > srasher forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > I am highly interested. In fact, I started to write a Python based > app > > for this two months ago, too. So far only got to reading and sorting > > out the album list via CLI and

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article , srasher wrote: > I am highly interested. In fact, I started to write a Python based app > for this two months ago, too. So far only got to reading and sorting > out the album list via CLI and doing some very rough output as either > ASCII file, HTML file or PDF (struggl

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-05 Thread srasher
adhawkins;263426 Wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of writing a two stage album catalogue converter. > The > first stage use the CLI port to retrieve all the albums from the > Slimserver, > and writes them to an XML file. The ultimate aim is to then use XSLT > to > 'transform' this list of

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2009-01-05 Thread QDon
Hi, How did you make out with your ACC? -- QDon SqueezeBox Duet SC running on QNAP TS-509 QDon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20770 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, buck<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this similar to the project on this thread? > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 It's similar, yes. However, for one reason and another I prefer my approach: 1. Mine is cross platform 2. Mine

Re: [slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2008-01-28 Thread buck
Is this similar to the project on this thread? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 His is Album Catalog Creator. (Catalog spelled in the American fashion) -- buck "I have come to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubblegum" - "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as John Nada

[slim] Album Catalogue Creater

2008-01-28 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi all, I'm in the process of writing a two stage album catalogue converter. The first stage use the CLI port to retrieve all the albums from the Slimserver, and writes them to an XML file. The ultimate aim is to then use XSLT to 'transform' this list of albums into a nicely formatted catalogue.