Hiya, I'm going to talk about two problems here, which are quite closely related.
The first one came up some months ago when I was trying to use the regular remote to add an album to the favourites. Adding an album to the favourites just won't work properly. Why ? Because the favourite url that's added is something like 'db:album.titlesearch=<name>'. Which is fine for 'db:album.titlesearch=War Of The Worlds', but less fine for 'db:album.titlesearch=Best Of'. Why mention this in the Jive forum ? Because it aflicts the Jive as well, and it's more obvious there for an odd reason. Let's say I want to play 'Beautiful Stranger' by 'Madonna'. On the Jive I select Artists and then scroll way down to Madonna and select. I've got the Madonna albums shown. Yay. I don't have the album that the track is on. I do have it from elsewhere though, and it's tagged with an empty album, because it's not part of an album but an individual track. I scroll down to 'No album' (which for reasons which may be clear if you know where I'm going, uses the image for 2 Unlimited as its album art) and click select. I now get a huge menu. Every single track that has 'No album' specified is in this menu. That'd be a bug then. Sounds familiar ? Oh yes, because it's the same sort of problem - only the album name is being used as the selector. So... I've fixed these, mostly. For the favourites thing, I've actually just extended the db scheme so that it accepts multiple criteria, for example, the above favourite would be 'db:album.titlesearch=No Album&contributor.namesearch=Madonna'. Within the Jive album code I've extended it to make sure that if you add a favourite of an album then it'll use the contributor if it's there. This could be used in other ways to select things more oddly if you wanted - although I can't imagine how some of the selections might be useful. I /guess/ it'd be possible to play every 1st track on every album by an artist using this method, but can't think why you'd want to. With my patch in place, selecting Madonna->No album gives me a menu of just the 6 tracks that are in that group, together with a 'Play all' option and an 'Add to Favourites' option (which still isn't quite right but the point is that it's a place to work from). So... I guess what I'm asking is... is what I've done useful, or do people actually think that 'Madonna->No album' should show you every track that's not on an album ? If it seems useful, I'll tidy things up and put the patch up on a bug. If not, then I'll keep it for myself. -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43449 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
