I'm pleased to announce that after about a year of development my plugin that provides a much faster and more convenient form of searching with the Squeezebox remote is now available. I call this the 'Lazy Search Music' plugin.
The plugin allows you to search for artists, albums and songs in a familar way (it can replace the SEARCH button completely), but removes the need for you to 'multi-tap' each button on the remote control to get at the letter you want, or to press the RIGHT button between letters that are on the same button. It also 'searches as you type', so you can see when you've entered enough characters to narrow your search sufficiently. The plugin is compatible with SlimServer 6.2 or later. This includes the 'stock' 6.2 release as well as current nightly releases of 6.5. I've tested it on Linux and Windows, and see no reason why it wouldn't also work on Mac OS X. The plugin, together with documentation on how to install and use it, and details of how it works, is available from the here: http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/slimserver/lazy-searching/lazy-searching2.htm This plugin is one solution to the long-standing enhancement request filed in bug #386 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386). I hope you find this plugin useful. I'd be very pleased to hear any feedback and if anyone has any suggestions for improvements I'll do my very best to accommodate them. -Slim Devices: feel free to link to this plugin page from your website's plugins page if you like. Even better, move the plugins page into the wiki and we can edit it ourselves.- -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17943 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
