Thanks for pointing me to the command line documentation. I see that the command repertoire is quite extensive and will do everything I need.
The reason I want to use external database software to control SlimServer rather than the built-in database is that all my music is classical, which raises some complications. One is that I usually want to consider a multi-track composition to be the basic unit of what I select to play, rather than considering each track as a separately selectable piece of music. A composition is not an entire album (CD), as there can be 2 or 3 compositions on one album. Another complication is that I need a way to distinguish among multiple recordings of the same composition, often with overlap in the performers. Perhaps I could use the "album" tag to uniquely identify a specific recording of a specific composition rather than an entire physical CD, but it would be tricky to define in a way that is guaranteed to be unique yet is still understandable. An external database gives me more flexibility to use hidden unique key fields. Returning to the command line issue, I thought one method of playing a multi-track classical composition would be to write software that commands SlimServer to create a playlist populated by the tracks of the composition I want to play now. When I decide to play a second composition, the software would command SlimServer to clear the playlist and repopulate it with the tracks of the second composition. Am I overlooking a much simpler approach? In the command line documentation, I don't see any commands that refer to a "selection" of tracks other than a playlist, so it looks like populating a playlist is the only way to command SlimServer to play several tracks in sequence without pause. -- Bob Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Stern's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19010 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50338 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
