Philip Meyer Wrote: > It would be nice if there was a web UI ;-) This is planned, I just have to figure out how to do it. I decided to concentrate on the SB UI first to make it useful but the plan is to add a web UI in a future release. I have not decided exaclty which functionallity to have in the web UI yet though, the obvious are: - Being able to select playlist
But I am also thinking it might be usefull to be able to enter the SQL directly in the web UI instead of putting it in a SQL file. Do you see any more useful functionallity that would be nice to have in a web UI ? Philip Meyer Wrote: > This plugin seems really nice - it's kind of similar to the Random > playlist plugin. I wonder if it could be combined with that. ie. add > the SQL playlists to the Random Songs, Random Artists, etc, and make > them use the genres to include list.The main reason I wrote it was that > "exclude genres" does not work in the Random playlist plugin if you have multiple genres in a track. I decided to make it more flexible and use SQL directly instead of extending the Random playlist plugin with "exclude genre" functionallity. The code is actually based on the Random playlist plugin. However, at the moment I can't really see any easy way to merge the plugins because the database access code are totally different, I also want to keep the flexibility for the user to being able to enter the SQL manually. However, a possible to extension might be to make a web UI that makes it easy to generate a SQL playlist sql-files even though the user does not know SQL. Maybe implement a web UI similar to Random playlist that generates the *.sql file or something. Is it something like this you had in mind, or were you just looking for a way to get Random playlist plugin playlists and SQL playlist plugin playlists below the same main menu ? Philip Meyer Wrote: > Another idea struck me though for integrating with the SlimServer > software. Perhaps it would be possible to enhance the Search/Advanced > Search pages (or player UI) so that after entering a search criteria, > the search could be stored as a SQL Playlist. The sql that is used to > generate the search results could simply be stored to the SQL playlist > folder.I am not sure that there is an easy way to catch the search SQL without patching the original slimserver. But I also think most of the search criterias in advanced search are not interesting to use to make a playlist. The only useful criteras I really see is "Year", "Date Modified" and "Genre". If you want to create playlists for a single artist or a single album it is better to do this as a normal playlist. I think SQL PlayList should be used for more advanced playlist that would not be "possible" to have as a normal playlist because they are to hard to setup or they will change to often. Thanks for the ideas, more ideas for extension possibilities are also welcome. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20533 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
