JohnCLeBlanc wrote: > I have an extensive collection of lossless and lossy music organized by > genre, composer, instrument etc. More and more I find I want to restrict > my listening to lossless music but it is interspersed with the lossy > music I have collected over the years. I also don't want to physically > split the music collection apart by compression type since it is > organized so nicely. > > Is there a way to have a filter in LMS that restricts browsing to only > lossless albums but maintains my view of my music hierarchy when I click > on "Music folder"? All of my lossless music has the extension .flac and > I also made sure that I prefix the album title with the string "_F ", > e.g., "_F A Hard Day's Night" so that I could easily spot the lossless > recordings when browsing through my collection. > > I've looked at the plug-ins "Custom Browse", "Files Viewer", > "Multi-Library", but these don't seem to do that filtering. > > If it's not possible to have a filter (e.g. display only flac files) > could I set up an entirely separate library that ignores all non-flac > files but that doesn't force me to reorganize my music collection?
Library Views will do what you want. Use LMS "Advanced Search" to select your criteria, then make this a Library View. I have quite a few. 31234 31235 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: LV02.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31235| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ *Server - LMS 8.0.0 *Pi4B 4GB/Flirc case/pCP 6.1.0 18K library, playlists & LMS cache on SSD (ntfs) *Study -* Pi3B+/pCP 5.0.0/pi screen/HiFiBerry DAC+/jivelite, *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 5.0.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > AudioEngine DAC1 > AVI DM5 *Dining Room* - Squeezebox Boom *Garage* - Squeezebox Touch > Edifier R980T *Spares* - 1xTouch, 1xSB3, 1xRadio, 7xRPi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112733 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
