I'm not sure how I can achieve this and I suspect it's not possible but here goes anyway.
My Squeezeboxes are on random mix pretty much full time. That can give me an issue if music with bad language is played at an inopportune time such as when children or 'sensitive' people are in the house. Pre-Squeezebox I was able to resolve this by adding a tag in the player's database to indicate that the track contained bad language and telling the player not to include tracks with those tags in the mix. I extended this somewhat by adding 'Party' and 'Exercise' tags (only play tracks that have a 'Party'/'Exercise' tag'), and so on. AFAICS the only way to do this with Slimserver would be if the random mix plug-in had the ability to exclude tracks based on the presence or otherwise of a specific string in the ID3 tag's comment field. That facility obviously doesn't exist so is there another way? (It just occured to me that if I add pseudo-genres to music (bad language, party, exercise...) I could exclude them based on genre but is Slimserver capable of decoding multiple genres in a tag and is the genre table for random mix populated based on the genres found in tags or pre-populated based on the 'standard' genres? I'm not sure this makes sense so I hope it does!) Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
