PasTim wrote:
> I recently tried a UPnP sever that has a novel (to me anyway) interface.
> I was wondering if there is any way to do the same with Custom Browse.
>
> The menu strategy is as follows.
>
> 1) You nominate the tags you are interested in - that's effectively
> already done using the mixed tags and custom tags defined for use in
> Custom Scan
>
> 2) The menu shows a list of these tag names and you pick one
>
> 3) The menu now shows, for the selected item, a list of tags for which
> there is more than one possible track, suppressing those where there is
> no track and where there is only one match display that instead of the
> tag name (eg Chopin instead of Composer) and not allowing selection
> using that tag
>
> 4) Repeat (3) until you decide to play or list all tracks which match a
> selected item.
>
> This allows you to select, say, an Artist, find all Composers for which
> there's a track with that Artist on it, select a Composer and see if
> there are there are tracks which also have an Orchestra you are
> interested in, list all the matching Works or tracks and play one.
>
> I hope that explanation is enough to explain how it works and to show
> the flexibility of the structure. The question is whether this is
> do-able with Custom Browse. I assume it is technically feasible if one
> writes the code, but I don't see a way of using the Custom Browse menus
> to achieve this.
>
> Any ideas?
The closest is probably the Tags menu which is based on the Dynamic Tags
menu type.
Generally it's hard to do dynamic menus like this with Custom Browse,
the "Tags" menu solves it by implementing the menus through programatic
logic instead of hardcoding the menu structure.
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