Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-22 Thread Co1
Cape11;577993 Wrote: > > I'm only on 7.5.1 and I'll not get to 7.6 until it becomes official. > I made the proposal for 7.6, because that is in development now. I thought there is a better chance to get it accepted. Cape11;577993 Wrote: > > Now yes, you can see the Lyrics tag in the LH colum

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-21 Thread Cape11
Co1 It's good to see the Composer and other tags being used, and I will make use of this - it has my vote. However, I'm only on 7.5.1 and I'll not get to 7.6 until it becomes official. The thing that really bugs me for classical music displays is the lyrics tag. I loaded all the CD booklet inform

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread erland
Co1;577664 Wrote: > > Hm, I thought that Custom Clock was only about showing clocks. I have > overlooked a lot of possibilities. I'll have a look to see if the same > Now Playing screen can be realized in this way. > It started as a customized clock, thus the name. After some more work it got e

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread Co1
erland;577644 Wrote: > With Custom Scan you can configure these to be available as a title > format. > If you also install the "Custom Clock Helper" plugin you can configure > it to forward "customclock/titleformatsupdated" events to the > Controller. > Thanks for the pointer. erland;577644 Wro

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread Co1
jean2;577634 Wrote: > I'm using exclusively FLAC file and I'm therefore using the FLAC > standard to tag my classical music, i.e. ARTIST for Beethoven and > PERFORMER for Karajan. How difficult would it be to modify your screen > to support that ? > > You must be using Custom Tags (like I do). I

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread erland
Co1;577368 Wrote: > > BTW, I have a custom tag OPUS, which I would like to add to the album > title in the NP screen. How do I go about retrieving a custom tag in > the Controller? > jean2;577634 Wrote: > I'm using exclusively FLAC file and I'm therefore using the FLAC > standard to tag my cl

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread JerryS
Co1;577621 Wrote: > > Until I made the new screen, I composed the TITLE and ALBUM from those > ingredients, using MP3tag. That's clever, didn't know you could do that. I got carried away with the excitement of the SB experience and rushed into the tagging without sufficient research. Some of

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread jean2
Co1;577274 Wrote: > > To use the Now Playing screen with classical music, the COMPOSER, > CONDUCTOR, and BAND tags are used. The various ARTIST tags should be > used for soloists. > The ALBUM tag is used to show the Work, but can also be used for a > collection of short pieces. Then the piece, a

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread Co1
Yes, in your case it would only show the composer separately, whom you already have in the album title. Unless you have followed the composer name by a unique separator character, it will be a lot of work to re-tag everything. I was not that happy with the three lines of information from the beg

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread JerryS
I like the idea and congratulate you on it. Only problem is, I don't think I can stand the idea of re-tagging all my music for the third time! I currently use the composer tag, artist tag, in which I put everything (orchestra, conductor, individual artists, choir), album (which I preface with co

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-18 Thread Co1
The new screen is an extra NP view. You can cycle through the available NP screens on the controller by rotating the wheel half a turn. I was so nasty to make the classical NP screen the default, but that might be changed. (I seem to belong to a minority group with my taste for classical music). I

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-17 Thread erland
How does normal pop/rock music look like after the patch has been applied ? If you like to make it easy for people to install the patch, you might want to consider making it available through the Patch Installer applet: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Patch_Installer_applet If you like me

[slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-17 Thread Co1
I have modified the Now Playing screen for the Controller, so that it becomes more useful for classical music. The current two lines of text are in a lot cases not enough to show all relevant information. I have filed a bug http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16561 , with the needed patche