barrygordon;243265 Wrote: > My desire for multiple libraries is different than what I dee here. my > collection consists of many, lets call them "Plain old CD's", ripped > down to mp3 (about to be re-ripped to flac) which are two track anallog > music sources. > > I also have a large number of encoded CD's recorded in DTS 5 channel > sound and I am sure in the future will have 7 channel CD's as DVD HD > and BLu-Ray fight it out. > > What I don't want to have happen is a random mix playing in the houses > general music system (two channel analog) to ever have a DTS CD > selected. Ergo my music library has 2 sub folders, DTS music and MPG > music. For the transporter in the theater/listening room I want the > DTS tracks to be able to be selected, in the bedroom or wherever I have > only analog audio I do not want the unit to be able to play encoded > music with possible speaker damage. > > In essence I want to be able to assign a library to a player not to the > server.
The only 100% safe way to accomplish this currently is by using two separate SlimServer instances and connect each SqeezeBox to the correct instance. It is possible to get a solution that solves some of the problems with the Multi Library plugin and some other plugins, some details described below: - You can define two virtual libraries with the Multi Library plugin. - SlimServer doesn't know about the virtual libraries, so it would still use all your music. So you will need some of the plugins mentioned below. - With Custom Skip you can configure a player to skip everything that doesn't belong to a certain virtual library. This means that tracks will be added to the current playlist, but just before they are about to be played they will be removed by the Custom Skip plugin. - With Dynamic PlayList + SQL PlayList plugins you can create random and smart playlists that are limited to a specific virtual library. You probably want to use these plugins instead of the standard Random Mix plugin in a multi library setup like this. - With Custom Browse, you can create browse menus that is limited to a specific virtual library. - There is currently no way to limit the search functionality, so searching will always return result from the whole library. - In the Multi Library plugin you can activate different virtual libraries on each player and the Custom Browse, SQL Playlist and Custom Skip plugin can be tied to the library currently active on each specific player. The reason this won't be the perfect setup is that you basically more or less can't use the SlimServer standard functionality regarding random playlists and browse menus. As already mentioned, if you use searching it wouldn't sense the virtual libraries at all and instead search in the whole SlimServer library. -- 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 Database Query 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=31431 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
