I've posted recently in the 3rd party plugins, however i have recently Submitted a request http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3741
In regards to my needs for ratings. The id3v2 popm field handles ratings within the metatags. Mediamonkey, WMP & foobar as far as i know handles ratings in this way. 1st part; requires Plugin to select The Slimserver scan to include POPM field and add to slimserver DB. 2nd Part; Browse By ratings. With an option to browse by individuals ratings. As the popm field allows you to define whose rating it is by an email field. And display Ratings on ui, per song a la trackstat. 3rd Part; Add to random mix or sqlplaylist options to have a greater than less than specific rating included. 4th Part; Writing back to metatag. This obviously needs more input. As Erland has stated his fears of writing to metatags. Ideally the final product though would ideally be something like Hold Rating key down on remote, ui prompts for user. Which can be preset in an options item by user. e.g User 1 is John, User 2 is mary. User 3 Can be Mary & john. This implementation of ratings obviously does not help Itunes users. Personally i don't like itunes. And use media monkey. And my brother uses wmp, at home. How can we standardise ratings and then ultimately output ratings to the relevant media player. Personally i have no experience in perl. Though i am keen to implement a plugin, which fulfills my purpose. What i need is some pointers to websites resources to start the steep learning curve. I know i can pick up the knowledge in a hurry. Please help me get the ball rolling. in saying this it has just come to me that i need to clarify the modules. 1. Scanning Database for Popm Ratings. Select on or off. 2. Displaying ratings 3. PLaylists with ratings (Sql Playlist)(done) 4. Writing to Db's and/or metatags. 4a. Itunes (itunesupdate)(done) 4b. Metatags - WMP, Media monkey, etc Suggestions, contributions, ideas, direction? 4th Part. Some way of -- Volition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volition's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5534 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23448 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
