I have made a new plugin called Custom Browse which makes it possible to customize the structure and contents of the browse menus on the SqueezeBox. In the current release the browse menus only exist on the SqueezeBox interface, the web interface just contains a configuration page to enable/disable the different menus.
A new menu is created by creating a xml-file with a specific format and put it in the custom browse directory configured in the web interface. The xml file will define the menu structure and the SQL queries that shall be executed for each menu. This makes it quite configurable. There are some sample browse menus delivered with the plugin and some information about the xml-format is documented in the included README.txt file. The documentation presumes that you know a little bit about xml and SQL. The following menus are included with the plugin as samples: - Artist/Albums/Genres/Years/Playlist (Works similar to the standard browse menus with some limitations) - Decades (Similar to years but group years into decades) - Statistics (just a link to the TrackStat menu) - Dynamic Playlists (just a link to the Dynamic Playlists menu) - Music Folders (just a link to the standard Music Folders menu) - Rated (Browse track by a specific rating, requires TrackStat) - Libraries (Makes it possible to browse the top level of your library "by folders" and then swith to browse by album/artist/genres within that folder. As an example this can be used as a top directory for each family member) You will find the plugin at my 'download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) as usual. If any one tests this plugin I would appreciate some feedback about how it works and wishes for new features and improvement of existing features. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
