You're right, Blue'. You need to dart about to try and get the best out of what's there, and if you're a newbie like me it's easy to get lost and miss the plot. (You can guess where most of the effort from these clever guys goes! It's usually the documentation that suffers, and that's speaking from personal experience, so no disrespect meant there.)
Thanks, Erland. Not sure if I need less detail, it's probably an understanding of the terminology and how it all fits together that I'm lacking. Like Blue', I can do a bit of programming, but this seems to need a different mindset to what I'm used to. (I'm using SC 7.3.1, Cust'Scan 2.4 and Cust'Browse 2.6 on a Unix NAS). Well, here goes. What I'm trying to accomplish is for a classical organ library. Rather than divide my library I wondered if I could just use Genre -> Organ as an entry point...? I've started to populate my music files (FLAC) with these tags using Mp3tag, as it seemed a good place to start but that's just me guessing :- GENRE - Classical;Organ (standard tag) PERFORMER - who's playing the instrument, usually solo but can be a duet separated by ";" LOCATION - city and venue e.g. "Birmingham, Symphony Hall" COUNTRY - with the option to filter into Location LABEL - (actually ORGANISATION) recording label SERIES - e.g. "Great European Organs" (None of these tags would be needed in my other music.) You'll see that I've gone a different direction to the perhaps more normal Artist/Composer/Work route - which is probably why I came unstuck trying to follow the Wiki example for setting up browsing for classical music. I managed to set these up as custom tags by copying the example in "Setup support for custom tags", and it's working fine, but that's about it. Requirement (initially) is to browse by any of the custom tags in isolation, but Country really scores as a filter into Location. For example, at the moment selecting "Netherlands" shows me all albums with instruments in the Netherlands, whereas I'd like to browse Locations within the Netherlands before I get to albums. I'd like Performers sorted [last_name first_name] and to browse [first_name last_name], but I haven't figured out how to do that either yet. Perhaps someone could let me know if this is all do-able, and how to accomplish it. Alternative suggestions are, of course, more than welcome (as long as you can follow up with instructions!) Thanks. -- losinj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ losinj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16240 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58564 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
