Many thanks to everyone for their comments, bug reports, translations and suggestions. I have rolled all of these in and produced a new version. As before, the plugin can be downloaded from here: http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/slimserver/lazy_searching2.htm
Below is a summary of the changes I've made since the previous (initial) release. If you have any further comments, bug reports, requests or translations then please drop me a line and I'll do my best. I was thinking that these changes would just about finish things off until I noticed that 'scanner in a separate process' branch - I'm sure that's going to give me something to do when it drops into the trunk! There is also an outstanding bug where duplicate artists can be created (fixable by a full database clear and rescan), which I'm looking at. Stuart New features (thanks to all those concerned): Added German translation by Dieter. Added Spanish translation by Néstor. Added lazy searching of genres (a new submenu item has been added). Thanks Néstor. Added a button to the plugin page to force a lazy search index build (shouldn't be necessary with the plugin startup changes, but useful during development and debugging). Thanks ceejay. Pressing the SEARCH button toggles between lazy/normal search menus. So, press it once to get to the lazy search menu, or twice to get to the standard search menu. Thanks Kevin. Pressing the SEARCH button while entering a lazy search string forces a search, even if the entered string is below the defined minimum length in the plugin settings. This is useful if you have a large music collection - set the tracks minimum search length to something high and then you can enter the lazy search text followed by the SEARCH button to avoid lengthy pauses with unnecessary searches that return too many results. (Note that searching for one character is prevented as that really would be useless). Thanks Kevin. The plugin now checks that the database has been "lazified" on startup and will build the lazy search index if not. Should remove the need for the initial 'manual rescan' on first install of the plugin. This might add a delay to the server startup time - this isn't a problem on my collection size but if it causes you a problem let me know and I'll add a preference to disable this feature. Thanks ceejay. Bug fixes: Corrected some player strings (it was showing 'artists' not 'albums' in some places, and used the term 'tracks' when the HCI standard appears to be 'songs'). Thanks to ceejay. Fixed display of accented characters in songs (I think it was OK in albums and artists, but wasn't working in songs). Thanks to Néstor. -- hickinbottoms --- Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hickinbottoms's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=255 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18154 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
