I have developed a new plugin Custom Scan that is now available for download. The idea behind the plugin is to make it easier to retreive additional information about artists, albums and tracks besides the information already stored in the slimserver database. This Custom Scan plugin calls separate plugin modules for each artist, album and track in the slimserver database and the plugin module can retreive any information it wants from somewhere and return it. The result will be stored in three tables in the slimserver database.
By default two plugin modules are included as a samples: ======================================================== LastFM: Retreives information about LastFM tags and "similar artists" information from LastFM for all artists in the slimserver database. Custom Tags: Reads a custom tag from the music files. The tag that should be read must be specified in the Custom Scan settings page. I'm not sure if this works with all file types, but it should at least work with vorbis tags (for example FLAC files). By default the information retreived will not be shown anywhere in the standard slimserver, but you can use it together with SQLPlayList(create dynamic playlist based on the information) or with the Custom Browse plugin (create browse menus based on the information) The latest version(1.8) of Custom Browse includes three menu templates for creating custom menus for the above scanning modules. This means that you can easily create the following menus: - A menu that browses your artists by LastFM tags - A menu that lets you first select on artist and then when you right click you can select a "similar artist" (according to LastFM) and then browse down that as usual. - A menu that lets you browse your music by a custom tag in your music files. See the included README.txt file for more information about how to develop your own scanning module. NOTE! The Custom Scan plugin only works on slimserver 6.5 and later so don't try to use it on slimserver 6.3 or earlier. The new version is available at my 'download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) as usual. The current wish/todo list for new features in comming CustomScan releases can be found here: http://erland.homeip.net/issuetracking/do/guest/home?application=slimserver-customscan If anyone have more feature requests or if I have missed some feature you already have requested which hasn't been implemented, please let me know. Also please note that it is a wish list and not a release plan, so some features on this list may never be implemented. -- 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), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse) 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=29156 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
