wnshall;183290 Wrote: > I made a number of custum browse menu items based on the Filtered Album > custom browse example, filtering on a term in the comment field. The > menu items return a properly filtered list of albums, but when I chose > "sort by artist" from the pull-down menu I get the following error: > > > What am I doing wrong? Any way to make it sort by artist by default?You are > doing nothing wrong, you've just found a bug in the "Filtered Albums" menu. I have just made a corrected version of this menu available, you can download the new version by using the download links in the Custom Browse web interface. If you haven't already specified a value of the "browse template directory" setting in the Custom Browse section of Server Settings, you will have to specify a directory in this setting before you can use the download links. Downloaded menus will be stored in this directory.
wnshall;183290 Wrote: > Also, on the options page for these menus I made there is a check box > called "check include comment for sub strings" What does this do? - If not checked it will only include tracks that contains the exact value in the comment tag, for example "female" - If checked it will include all tracks that contains the text specified somewhere in the comment tag, for example "female" or "females" or "female vocal" or "good female artists". wnshall;183290 Wrote: > On another note: I've followed the discussion here recently how to use > the Genre/sub genre example to browse thru sub-genres. Do I understand > correctly that to implement this you would list multiple stings > separated by ";" in the genre tag field? Yes, genres separated with ;, or if > your tagging program and choosen file format support it you can enter the genres as completely separate genre tags. wnshall;183290 Wrote: > Could I instead implement a similar thing but based on multiple strings > in the Comment tag? I use iTunes which doesn't allow multiple genres, > but does allow access to the comment field.There is no easy way to do this > today. The reason is that SlimServer doesn't support splitting up COMMENT tags into different values with a ;. The next version of Custom Scan plugin will support this, so with the next version of the Custom Scan plugin you will be able scan the different COMMENT tag values separated with a ;. But you will still need a new menu template to get it to work as you like, I will add to the Custom Scan wish list to create a menu template that implements the Genre/SubGenre menu for a custom tag (for example the COMMENT tag). But the good news is that you can enter genres separated with ; directly in iTunes today, at least that is the situation in my setup. In the genre drop list that says "Pop" I can instead enter "Pop;Christmas". I'm using iTunes 7, but I'm quite sure it was possible before also. You should note that this will convert your tags to id3v2 tags so if you are using other devices that only supports id3v1 this may not be a good idea. Also in iTunes "Pop;Christmas" will be interpreted as a single genre, so if you use iTunes for other things than tagging this might be a disadvantage with this solution. wnshall;183290 Wrote: > Finally, how does the genre/sub-genre browse look? Suppose I browse to > genre=jazz, do I get a list of available sub-genres as well as all the > albums (or artists) that belong to the genre jazz? Or do I only get > the sub-genres, forcing me to pick one before I see a list of albums? > (I can't test since I don't have multiple entries in my genre tags!) > > What I'd like to be able to do is browse to a top level genre and get > all the albums (or artists) that match, but be able to further browse > to sub-genres to narrow the list if I wish. I think it works as you like. The first level vill show: All genres The second level will show: All sub genres for the genre you selected on the first level. But the second level will also show: All artists which belongs to the genre you selected on the first level. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
