I agree with the first post - that additional information should be available in identifable files and it is up to UI how to present the data whether on "Now Playing" screens and/or through More - rather than plugin through getMetatdataFor routine merging data to fit into 3 standard fields but which is different for each plugin.
I think the fields available to depend on the source. I think there are a number of sources and if this sort of change is going to happen, we should have a scheme that covers - files - artist , album, track, - classical often poses additional problems but I don't want to solve that here - Podcasts - source, date, title, episode, descr - streaming services like Spotify, Qobuz - artist , album, track - I'm not a user so others can add but is "playlist" or channel (what is displayed with a user with a playlist of mix local and streaming tracks ?)_ - Radio stations - on demand - program name/episode , program contents, Brand/Series, Station name - Radio stations - Live - current track/segment, program , short description, station name - other possibly time left and next program. For Radio there are some users who enat logn descriptions and other who want short especially for Classical broadcast where description can be very long Since these are the items that comes to mind, they are a bit chaotic but I think it means the that an overarching "tag" is needed to indicate the "source" so that the UI can choose a layout and know what fields shoudl be availablee and what they means. In implementation terms - we can go for a big change in many places or crowbar it into an existing field (e.g. if "description" is a string - then process as currently, if "description" is a hash - break out the fields in the UI) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112211 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
