Jim di Griz;150890 Wrote: > Hiya! > > I got my Squeezebox a couple of days ago, which makes me the proverbial > n00b. It's therefore quite possible someone has already created a plugin > which solves my problem, but I didn't find one while browsing the list. > > So, here's the deal. I've got 600+ gigabytes of audio files on a > Buffalo Terastation NAS. I'd hazard a guess that 60% of them are tagged > which means I'm kinda SOL when it comes to adding tracks that aren't > tagged properly to SlimServer playlist, right? I mean, browsing the > Music Folder takes almost a minute per page. *sigh* > > To make matters worse, SlimServer doesn't even find all the files. I > have no idea why. I deleted all .m3u's from the NAS, disabled library > statistics and did a couple of re-scans (45 minutes each, btw), but no > luck. > > Anyhoo, my request is for a simple and quick way to add audio files > that are not in SlimServer's database to the playlist (and why not to > the database as well!) from Windows Explorer (desktop, not the > browser). > > I can think of a couple of ways to approach this: > > 1) context menu selection - right-click a directory or an audio file, > and you get a choice "add to SlimServer playlist". You know, like you > can do with WinAmp, for example. > > 2) "LAMEdrop-style" - an application which you can drag&drop files > into, which then adds those files to SlimServer's playlist. > > Yeah, I know: why not simply tag those files properly, then do a > re-scan? Well, like I said, SlimServer doesn't find all the audio files > on the NAS. Also, I'm not too keen on tagging some 10,000+ files, many > of which require manual tweaking for proper tagging. > > What do you think? Would such an application be doable? > > thanks, > :: jimbo
Hi jimbo, your 1) is definitely doable and there already exist an application which does that. See my other post at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=150499&postcount=5 So far everything you play is automatically added to the slimserver database. There is another thread which discusses that issue... :) -- cosmo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cosmo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29199 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
