As I said, I am just getting started tagging my classical music, so I am keen to do it carefully so I dont have to redo it. (I did about 20 CDs, changed course several times, and decided to sit back a while and be careful about it.) Of course, how one tags depends importantly on the ability to parse the tag information in slimserver, which explains yesterdays post and this post.
I am now trying to decide on how to do genre. For example, do I choose Classical;Concerto;Piano or Classical;Piano Concerto? I would choose the former if it was easy to limit searches to the intersection of Concerto and Piano. Your Genres/Sub Genres template allows me to this narrowing of songs: 1. Genre1_list 2. Genre1/Genre2_list 3. Genre1/Genre2/artistlist 4. Genre1/Genre2/artist/albumlist 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/songlist. But as explained my posting yesterday, Id like this sequence: Steps 1-4 above 5. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductorlist 6. Genre1/Genre2/artist/album/conductor/songlist. This could be done with your multiplecustomtagstracks template if it allowed for five levels rather than just four. I perhaps naively was thinking I could mindlessly alter the xml files to add a fifth level to the filtering. But I had much difficulty even identifying the files that would need to be altered. I have no experience with XML, HTML, and SQL. So I understand that you dont wont to waste time with any back and forth on how I can customize your templates. But I have purchased some books and would like to gain some understanding. To this end, could you provide a schematic of the basic architecture? That is, what files do what. I promise not to pester you with any follow-up questions. I infer that slimserver/plugins/customscan/menu templates/multiplecustomtagstracks.cb.values.xml is the form which solicits the inputs I enter when I create the custom menu, and those inputs are then stored in XX/custombrowse/YY.xml, where XX is the directory I select in the slimserver settings and YY is the file name I select when I create the menu. (What do the *.template files do in slimserver/plugins/custombrowse/menu templates?) So all I can identify are xml files that solicit user inputs and the file into which those inputs are stored. Can I create a 5-level multiplecustomtagstracks menu by simply altering an input file? Dont I need to alter the program that processes the inputs? If so, where is that program? I note that earlier cutombrowse releases included notes in the readme file on how to create custom menus but your latest build does not. I suppose you are trying to avoid novice questions like mine. With regard to the notes in an earlier version, you allude to files of the form *.cb.xml. I can find no such files---only files of the form *.cb.values.xml. (Those notes refer to xml files that appear to be real programsnot just holders of inputs.) I will entirely understand if you choose to punt these questions. Thanks. Randy -- rmariger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rmariger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1160 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27043
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