I have made the following two plugins for my personal usage, but I
thought it might be a good idea to announce them here if someone else
has the same needs. 

TRACKSTAT
This plugin makes it possible to rate your songs and also manage
statistic data about play counts and last played time. The ratings and
statistic data is stored in a separate database table
which will not be cleared during a complete rescan of the music
library. Ratings and statistic data can also be imported from an iTunes
Music Library xml-file. You can make backup/restore of your ratings and
statistic data to a separate xml file to make it easier to backup the
information to external storages.

SQLPLAYLIST
This plugin makes it possible to create "smart" playlists based on SQL
queries. The playlists are dynamically generated by the plugin by
executing SQL queries specified in text files towards the database. The
playlists runs continously in the same way as the Random Mix plugin.
Combined with the TrackStat plugin this makes it possible to create
"smart" playlists such as:
- Top rated songs
- Not rated songs
- Songs not played in last month
- Songs which contains genre Pop but not genre Christmas

You will probably only find the SQLPlayList plugin usefull if you have
knowledge in SQL or if you know someone that can help you writing SQL
queries.

MUSICINFOSCR PATCH
This is not a separate plugin, it is just a small modification of the
original MusicInfoSCR screensaver. The changes makes it possible to
implement custom items in separate plugins and show them via the
MusicInfoSCR screensaver plugin. The TrackStat plugin implements a
number of these custom items which makes it possible to show the rating
for the currently playing song as a screensaver togheter with all other
song information normally available via the MusicInfoSCR screensaver.

Both plugins and the patched MusicInfoSCR can be downloaded from my
download page:
http://erland.homeip.net/download

I'm running the plugins in slimserver 6.2.2 using the mysql database,
but I think they should work also with 6.2.* and the standard SQLite
database although I have not verified this. The plugins will not work
correctly in slimserver 6.5. If someone are interessted to run them in
6.5 please tell me and I will try to make a 6.5 version available also.


-- 
erland

Erland Isaksson
'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page'
(http://erland.homeip.net/download)
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