I'm not sure I can answer the OP's question. I know that having a per artist or album rating tag is not the easiest thing to implement, and trying to work that into use in Squeezebox could be a challenge.
I suppose one way to work it would be to utilize an ARTISTRATING field as if it is a generic descriptor field like GENRE. However, those multi-artist tracks would be challenging. It would be easy enough to generate a multi-valued field, but it seems that you'd have to make that multi-valued field behave similar to a sort field... i.e. associate each RATING value with the appropriate ARTIST: e.g. ARTIST = artist 1, artist 2 ARTISTRATING = #1, #2 I'm not sure if it would be easy to do that. You'd still have to adjust the ARTISTRATING externally, unless there was a plugin available to edit it. It sounds like the conceptual Categorize plugin would have accomplished something similar, except, you'd want the script to be intelligent enough to update ratings for all tracks by a certain artist rather than the selected track. I could see that choking the server given enough tracks by an artist. The maintenance issue is still complicated as Erland pointed out, too. You'd have to make sure you fill in the blanks as you add tracks, and you'd have to make sure you edit all of the tracks consistently if you adjust the rating for any reason. -- emalvick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92347 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
