>My goal is to add a music folder menu using custom browse. To get >MusicIP to work, it looks like I cannot have a string in the SC music >folder settings. >
The MusicIP plugin as it stands now is more of an "export" than an "import" plugin. It exports info from MusicIP into SC, rather than SC importing information from MusicIP. If you don't set an SC music path, SC will just depend on information from MusicIP. You can also define an SC music path, and SC will scan all music on this path, and then export info from MusicIP and merge it into the SC library. It means the music is effectively scanned twice. I saw absolutely no benefits in MusicIP being the only source for music in SC: 1. MusicIP import (actually the plugin calls it export) is very slow compared to SC scanning. 2. MusicIP doesn't understand tags as well as SC scanner. i.e. doesn't allow multiple genres, artists, album artists. sorting. I think other tags like lyrics, comments, composer, band, etc are not imported too. 3. MusicIP understands less music formats (m4a, m4p, mp3, wma, ogg, flac and wav on Windows). 4. Instead of one "No Album" for all music without an album tag, MusicIP creates many "Miscellaneous" albums. Similar problems exist for no genre, no artist, etc. 5. It does the whole scan every time, rather than find only new songs. I thought it seemed totally wrong for SC to use MusicIP as the master source for music. MusicIP adds the benefit of defining what songs are mixable, but that's it. So I tweaked the plugin and provided a patch on an enhancement request. It provides an extra option in the MusicIP settings page "Read Song Data". If this is unticked, the SC scanner will only ask MusicIP whether songs are mixable. It only does this for songs that it doesn't already have the mixable status for, and thus is a lot quicker. It doesn't corrupt SC tags with MusicIP weirdness. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5637 I think the developers might look at the patch I provided for inclusion in SC 7.3. Phil _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
