>You might like to look at the MultiLibrary plugin by Erland. > That may not help you much.
All music will be scanned into the standard music library. MultiLibrary will indeed allow you to split your music library into different pots of music, and I have done exactly that to keep music and podcasts as separate libraries. You can then use CustomBrowse to browse your music-only library, such that it doesn't display podcasts that appear in another library. However, the podcasts will still exist in the standard music library, so things such as search results will still find and display the songs that are "podcasts". The only true solution is to tag your podcasts before rescanning the music library. I find it really annoying that some podcasts change these tags for each episode, instead of maintaining the same values and using the track number tag as the episode number. I try to retag such downloads before rescanning into SC. I generally delete the artist tag, and set the album tag to the name of the podcast, and set the track number to the episode number (usually embedded in the album name or track name). Some applications that download podcast enclosures can be configured to re-tag the downloaded files automatically, I think. I already have a few windows apps that manage podcasts with sound enclosures that I am interested in. I have three different ones for different reasons. iTunes because I generally only listen to those podcasts on my iPod in the car. wTicker (a good RSS newsfeed reader), for podcasts that I browse and only download a few interesting enclosures from time to time, and GetRight for podcasts that I always download and play in SqueezeCenter (Getright is always running, whereas I only run iTunes when I want to sync an iPod as it is bloatware, memory hogging, etc). I've been toying with the idea of creating a better third-party podcast plugin that could manage podcasts. eg. once a day look for new enclosures and automatically download them, change tags using some simple rules, and make them available for playback through bespoke WebUI and PlayerUI menus, with an indication if they have been played or not, thus taking the best features of all of those apps, and integrating better with SqueezeCenter. However, I think it would be a lot of work to fully support all feed types, enclosure formats, retagging files on disk, disk management (auto delete podcasts that have been played a week ago, for example). I'm not likely to ever get round to it, and I kind of manage with what I've got already. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
