Michael Herger;221651 Wrote: > > Can MusicInfoSCR also be configured for different layouts based on > the > > GENTRE Tag? What I want with Classical is quite different from > Rock/Pop > > information. > > You mean use another layout when the tag is "Classical" or something? > No, that's not supported, I'm sorry. Would you want a whole different > layout or "only" conditional formatting for some fields? >
I've thought a bit about this too. The issue I have thought about is the "Now Playing" screen. It doesn't make sense to show the same information for "Classical" music as for "Pop/Rock" music. For classical music you would like to display things like: Composers, Ensembles, Works For Rock/Pop music on the other hand this is not interesting, instead it is enough to display the artist. As I see it there are two possible ways to implement this: 1. Make it possible to define different layouts in MusicInfoSCR, you can then define that for classical music the upper row should display "CUSTOMSCAN_MIXEDTAG_COMPOSER" and for pop/rock music it could instead be configure it to show "ARTIST". 2. Make a plugin where it is possible to define a virtual title format that returns different information for different tags. I could then define a "VIRTUALFORMAT1" that will return the value of "CUSTOMSCAN_MIXEDTAG_COMPOSER" for classial music and the value of "ARTIST" for pop/rock music. The advantage of the first solution is that you can have completely different layouts, but I think the second solution would be good enough. I think the only situations that the second solution doesn't cover is that you can't use the internal keyword of MusicInfoSCR. As an example it wouldn't be possible to show the progressbar on pop/rock music but don't show it on classical music. The advantage of the second solution is that the title formats would also be usable in other places, for example in the track listings in the web interface. Independent on the solution, there is a problem that needs to be solved. How do you select which layout to use. Genre is certainly one way, but what do you display if a track has multiple genres, for example both "Classical" and "Pop" ? The Multi Library plugin would be another way, but it has the same issue, the same track can be in two virtual libraries at the same time. -- 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=34483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
