I have about 6800 tracks in my collection. I usually just run a random playlist with most genres included, but I want to have a means of creating a more restricted "best of" playlist containing my favorite stuff (perhaps 5-10% of the total), but still running across multiple genres. This would be mainly for times when I'm occupied with things like exercising or doing chores, and don't want to fiddle with the remote to skip unwanted tracks.
My first thought was to systematically browse through my collection (not all in one session, obviously!), and when I hear a track that was a "fave", add it to the "zapped" playlist. When this was done, the zapped playlist could then be copied as a fave playlist. But this seems like a very cumbersome procedure, and it means that every track must be played, at least momentarily, even if I already know it's a "fave". An approach based on tags seems to make more sense. Then I could browse through my collection, independent of slimserver, using a tag editor to mark the faves, and listening to the tracks only when necessary. I noted from the wiki that I could create multiple genre tags by using a separator such as ";", and then informing slimserver about it in the server settings. This sounded like just what I needed, so I fired up the tag editor, picked out some tracks, and altered the genre tags from "Rock" to "Rock;Fave", "Folk" to "Folk;Fave", etc. I anticipated that after a re-scan, slimserver would show a new genre "Fave" in the genre list, and I would be all set. Alas, what it actually came up with is a bunch of new genres like "Rock;Fave" - one for each combination. Not exactly what the doctor ordered. So, what went wrong? Did I misinterpret what needs to be done in Server Settings -> Behavior -> Multiple Items in Tags? I simply entered a ";" without the quotes there. Or, is there a better way to do this? A plugin, perhaps? I welcome your thoughts... Barry -- Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
