adamslim;220423 Wrote: > Do your browse structures work dynamically? For me one of the key > things is that I see a nice list of what fits into my > currently-selected filters, so I can browse in a random order. I know Robin has tried the "Tags" menu and that works as dynamic as you like. It currently need an extra click on a "Matching Albums" or "Matching Songs" link to see what is matching the currently selection.
The reason for the reason I put in the extra click is because else it might need to display 10000 items when you for example only have selected genre="Classical". I can see two ways to improve this: 1. It should show the number of matching items, for example "Matching Songs (9451)" instead of just "Matching Songs". 2. It can show the items directly A combination of these might be a good idea, where the number is displayed if more than 100 items is matching and if less than 100 items is matching it shows the songs/albums directly. Robin has already suggested an improvement similar to this. When looking at the Fortuna demo you linked to, I think the thing that makes it a lot more user friendly compared to the "Tags" menu. It shows a lot of information on the same screen. You will see the selected criterias, the matching songs/works/cd and also more information about a song/work/cd you have selected in the list of matching items. I have a feeling that even though the "Tags" menu in Custom Browse/Custom Scan might work for you, you probably want a more user friendly solution and then Custom Browse might not be the right way to go. The Custom Scan part that reads the tags from the files and get it into the database feels like it can be used though. All this also results in that it might be a bit of work to develop a solution like this. At the moment, I'm afraid that I have some things I need for my self to take care of first, so in the close future you will probably not see any solution from me regarding this, besides maybe some improvements to the existing "Tags" menu. So if any person with developer skills is interested in trying to do this, I'm happy to provide more details about how I think it can be done and which parts of Custom Scan/Custom Browse that might be reused. If no one else starts to do this, there is still a chance I might give it a try in a few months or so. Adam, start a thread in the 3rd party plugins forum if you can't get the Custom Browse/Custom Scan "Tags" menu up and running and I'll do my best to help. Even though it might not solve all your needs, it would be great to get some feedback on it since its purpose is to solve a part of your problem. The wiki link I posted in my previous reply shows a step by step example how to set it up. -- 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 RandomPlayList 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=37545 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
