Phil Meyer;209245 Wrote: > > 1. > Mixers don't work correctly on "Various Artists" menu. I guess it is > selecting the first various artist album, rather than all various > artist albums. > The current behavior is clearly incorrect. Is mixers on the "Various Artists" item really needed ? My current plan is to just remove the mixers on the "Various Artists" item since I really don't see the purpose of having them there. Do you think this would be a bad idea ?
Phil Meyer;209245 Wrote: > 2. > I like the "similar to artist" option. If I hit play on any item in > the heirarchy from the "similar to <artist>" menu downwards, it seems > to queue up 20 random tracks. I am finding that that is useful to > select random music that is similar to the selected artist, but it's > not a dynamic playlist (it doesn't add new tracks over time). If I > drill down to an album by a similar artist, it is likely that I want to > just play the album, not random tracks from it. I have found that I can > then call up the "browse by selected" on the similar artist (or similar > artist album), and from there play the album normally, but my feeling > is that "similar to artist" should play/queue artists/albums/songs > normally, and use a mixer if I want to play a random selection. > I'm thinking it might be a good idea to have two mixers: *LastFM Similar Artists*: Browse similar artists and play button works as normal *Random songs by similar artists*: Plays or adds 20 tracks from artists similar to the currently selected artist. No sub menus, it will start playing as soon as the mixer has been selected. You can of course start with "LastFM Similar Artists", browse to a similar artist and from there execute the "Random" mixer or the "Random songs by similar artists" mixer. It you like a dynamic playlist to play that's possible today by: - Create a new playlist in "SQLPlayList" of type "Random for LastFM similar artists" After doing this you will also get a "DynamicPlaylist" mixer where you can select dynamic playlists that takes an artist as parameter. However, I'm also thinking that it might be a good idea to have the similar artists playlist available by default, so I will add this to the wish list. Phil Meyer;209245 Wrote: > 3. > TrackStat mixer - Depending on the context, there can be up to 96 menus > to wade through! They're all good, but it would be nice if these could > be grouped like the normal TrackStat plugin menus. > > PhilI'll add it to the wish list Phil Meyer;209249 Wrote: > Oh, and if I invoke a mixer (trackstat or browse by selection in > particular) from within a library (multi-library plugin), it includes > music from my whole slimserver library (would be nice if it was just > music from the library that I invoked it from).I'll add it to the wish list. -- 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=36164 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
