oyvindo wrote: > Hi Jezbo, > > Now that I have made my investment and decided to use Muso, it's time to > ask some questions. :-) > I have my LMS running on a QNAP Linux server with some near 7000 albums > totalling close to 100.000 tracks. > Muso handles this amount surprisingly well and I just love the new Pivot > view. > > However, I wish to produce a portable catalog-file of my entire CD > library. I've used a nice utility named AlbumCatalogCreator (ACC) > previously, but it failed to support my growing library at a certain > point, and the author abandoned the project when LMS moved from MySQL to > SQLite. > > Now I'm anxious to see if Muso can accomplish this task for me. > I started out by generating a Web export of full albums only (no need > for track listings). > The resulting web view is not perfect (see below) > 14175 > The album art partly overwrites the album label and the label + year is > displyed using a tiny font which is impossible to read without first > enlarging (zooming) the view in my web browser. (I use IE9 running on a > Win7-64bit machine, and the enclosed caption was zoomed 200%.) > And then there is a dotted line hashing right trough the fonts, making > it even harder to read. > > I guess I could ask a number of question about such details, but perhaps > a better question is; > 1. Is there a way to customize the template used to generate these HTML > scripts so than I myself can design the final layout? > 2. I triet to click the star (show all) symbol, and IE9 went into an > infinit loop and never returned. Somehow - generating a listing of 7000 > albums was beyond its (or the scripts?) capability. I left it running > overnight just to check, but it never produced anything except a bunch > of animated zebrastripes with the text "Loading..." overlayed. > 3. My aim is to generate a PDF file (or some other tangible format), > that is designed to manage a booklet of 500-1000 pages. If I could get > an HTML result, I know I can convert it to PDF by using a PDF > print-driver. > > Awaiting your reply. > Rgds > Viking
I'll revisit the catalog generator to try generating without track listings or album details to produce the multi-albums per line format I think you are wanting - I haven't tried this in quite a while so it's possible some later layout modifications affected this. If you want to print an entire catalog I would suggest turning off the Dynamic Index feature since this is intended for more interactive index-based browsing on the internet. If you know CSS you can copy an existing theme and edit it to control the layout. This isn't a documented feature but you can see the pre-defined theme folders under C:\Users\Public\Music\muso\catalog_themes - copy one that's closest to what you want, edit the folder name and the internal CSS and hey-presto, that should then be available to you in the next catalog generation. NB. Don't get too attached to the pivotviewer feature, it was only ever experimental and it may have to be shelved since I think it's too demanding on resources - how does it perform for 7000+ albums? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jezbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9888 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91575 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
