Sorry, I had a bad moment with my browser when I posted that message, and I didn't realize that the partial message had made it to the board. I just realized now that it was here.
JJZolx Wrote: > I think you guys are missing what Mike is saying. Forget album counts > and checkboxes. > > In Browse Albums there's no artist listed. Exactly. When seeing a list of albums, I want to see at least the first artist associated with the album (preferrably all of them, including composer, normalized to unique entries). The year would be nice too, and the option to see the artwork would be the icing on the cake. I know there's a good chance that not everyone would want this, so it needs to be settable in the server options, just like the song list is now. I've tried hacking through the skins, but this proved a bit daunting (and I'm a professional database developer). Besides, any hacks that I did would need to be redone with each new version of the skins. What we need is some type of formula, or a virtual table (i.e. SQL VIEW) using an expression passed in by the SQL database creation scripts. This expression would be settable in the SlimServer UI, passed into the database creation scripts, and the skins could simply request the value from the VIEW, rather than formatting things every time. I think you get the idea. -=> Mike Hanson <=- -- Mike Hanson _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
