Erland, as always, thanks for your clear and helpful reply.  I think
I've got it sorted out now -- will try later tonight.

erland;219859 Wrote: 
> 
> There are several files, basically one for each row in the header.
> 
This was the key that I wasn't understanding.  I also didn't realize
that the Hide link in the Custom Browse menu meant hide the item from
the displayed headers -- I thought it just meant hide it from the page
where you edit things.


> 
> The artist header will contain the same items independent on how it has
> been reached. There is currently no way to have different artist headers
> depending on how you reach an artist.
> 
> But it is possible to configure different artist headers for different
> artists. For example one item for artists that has some tracks in the
> "Classical" genre and some other item for artists that doesn't have any
> tracks in the "Classical" genre. An example of this is shown on a
> tutorial on my wiki page called "Add browse menus and information for
> classical music to SlimServer"
> 

In passing, let me give kudos for your wiki pages -- they've been
extremely helpful in learning how to make your plugins work.

To see if I understand what you've said so far, an example from your
wiki you refer to above is the section titled "Configure Song Info web
page", which adds some info unique to classical music to the song info
page.  This unique info is limited to classical music by setting the
library to classical, right?  Also, the object type in this example is
trackheader.  If I wanted to add similar info unique to classical music
but on the artist page, I would change the object type to artistheader,
right?


> 
> I agree, I'm not really sure why I added. At some time I think I had a
> plan to show "most played" or "highest rated" artists in the header.
> 
> Maybe they should be removed from the default configuration ?

Personally, as they stand now I don't think the list of artists and
albums on the genre pages is very useful.  As I said, it seems
redundant, since that's the info the page displays anyway.  However, a
list of "most played" or "highest rated" could be very cool and useful.
Maybe limited to just top 5-10 so they only take up a line or two on
the page (one of the things the bugs me about the current design is
that the album and artist list takes up so much space that you have to
scroll down in the web page to see much of the desired list of matching
artists.)

As always, thanks for your great work.

-Steve


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