1. When using the Album Review for Albums that have names that are pretty generic (e.g. Live, Greatest Hits, Detour Ahead) it returns a list of possible matches, but it doesn't seem like the interface has used the artist to try to get a direct hit (Biography comes up OK so it is recognizing artist).
Believe me: it's trying hard to find an album/artist match. It does parse that list before spitting it out as is. If it doesn't find it, then there's probably a slight difference in the spelling.
When it does not find the review with a first lucky punch, then it receives the list you're seeing. It goes through the whole list, extracting artist, album title etc. It tries to match the two with the information searched. If this does not succeed, it tries to filter the list to only display the artist's albums. And only if even this isn't successful it will present you with the whole mixed list. Please turn on d_plugins (server settings/debugging) and watch the log file for information about that progress. And do compare the artist/album info your song returns with the list. Do they really match?
BTW: In 1.31 (see the plugin.pm's top of file) I fixed an issue with case sensitivity in the matching process. Might this be your problem?
2. I'm using the refresh interval to automatically move to the next album, but it causes screen flashes which makes reading it difficult.
This is a known problem. Especially when reading on a small device (pda) with a lot of scrolling involved.
The ultimate behavior would be to automatically refresh the Album/Biography data when the song changes. The WebLogger plugin updates it's data when a new song comes up automatically without a polling period - any way to do this automatically for Album/Biography?
We're talking about a web interface: the server knows the change, but it can't push a new page to the client. Only the browser can ask for a new page. This is different from the weblogger where slimserver pushes the information out to your web server.
It's the same problem as with the server's status page: it does reload at fixed intervals. But as the plugin's page often needs scrolling (due to its size) it's more irritating.
3. Interface. I use these plug-ins predominantly from my PC as I'd go crazy trying to read the volume of information on the SqueezeBoxes's screen
Yesterday somebody asked for a ticker style screensaver mode for these plugins :-).
-- besides, the links are great to get to AMG for song reviews. My ideal would be to have these plug-ins work as one and actually get combined with the Song Info (I've got the song lyrics there.)
Yeah, that's something I'd really have a look at. It's been asked for several times. But imho there's no official way for a plugin to add information/links to that page (the lyrics are stored in the files' tags).
4. Any way to get the Artist name to be a link to AMG and the Album title to be a link to AMG?
Not without significant changes to the server's code base -> not realistic to happen.
5. I have a few albums where the Album Review doesn't come up yet I can see it on the AMG site (e.g American Beauty by the Grateful Dead
Do you find it when you copy/paste the title and artist into the fields at the amg site? Either there's a spelling problem or the title/artist combo isn't unique.
Biography 1.6, Album Review 1.3
I hope it's 1.64 and 1.32 - I had to fix the parsing recently as allmusic.com had changed the pages' layout.
Thanks for all your input. I'll definitely have to find a way for a better integration with the player's and web interface's song info mechanisms. Don't expect this to happen too soon - I'll be off until after the easter holidays (if the weather permits...).
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