This is also a feature I'd like to see. Say you've got a lot of Grateful Dead or Gov't Mule shows. These bands play certain segues commonly, like China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, or Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower or Mule > I've Been Working > Mule (as a taper, I would track such segues as one track, but not all tapers do this.) Or think of the final medley of songs on The Beatles' Abbey Road, You Never Give Me Your Money through The End
One usually wants to hear these songs together, and it sounds odd to the listener to hear just one isolated song from these segues. It would be nice to be able to link tracks somehow so that if one of these came up in a shuffle or random playlist that they would be included with their partner tracks. Or this scenario: A talking intro track followed by a song track. One might only want to play the song track, and not automatically have the talking intro track included with it, but if the talking intro track comes up in a shuffle or random playlist, that it automatically always be followed by the song track. I'm not sure how these enhancements might be accomplished with tags. Maybe a plugin whereby the user could specify rules like "If artist=Grateful Dead, and title = China Cat Sunflower and is followed by track title = I Know You Rider, then keep these tracks together when shuffling or generating random playlists." Then one could do it based on song title and not have to do it on a show by show basis. Kind of like the exclusion rules in Erlands Custom Skip plugin. This wouldn't help for all those tracks titled "Intro" or "Talk" followed by a song. Perhaps another way to do this would be at the slim database level: Be able to link tracks from the browser UI, and this is noted in slims database, and hopefully one might be able to preserve these links when the library was cleared and rescanned. That sounds harder, but I am not a programmer. The manual workaround of course is to look ahead in the playlist and if you see one of these tracks missing it's companion, open that album/show and manually add the companions to the playlist. (This would be easier with drag and drop playlist reordering, which I understand is happening in SC7, or can be done now in the limited slimfx skin.) So yes something like this I would love to see in SC7, which I haven't checked out yet. (Is it time for me, the non-programmer to dip my toe into SC7 or should I wait some more?) -- bephillips More than 35611 songs on 2849 albums by 2050 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17312 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
