flimflam wrote: > OK, thanks Joerg, I think I got it now: Logitech Web UI uses CLI > queries, but iPeng uses some other query system in order to show > duration, file type etc in the track list? > No. More or less the other way around :) Technically, both use the CLI over JSON. But the Web UI and the Logitech App don't query the library using the documented CLI but instead they query a menu that gets prepared on the server side, including the full text being displayed.
iPeng queries a list of tracks with information about the tracks, one of these information types is the "trackartist". That's what iPeng displays unless there is no "trackartist" being returned, in which case iPeng displays the default "artist" (another field iPeng queries) instead. I don't know what the server uses to display the artist in this menu, it's undocumented in the sense that there is only a way to get a menu, you have no control over or information about _what_ is in that menu. It could be track or a list of configuration settings or metainformation, it's not typed. That's why it's not really useful for iPeng. > > I have just now tested LMS 7.7.2 I had left on my PC, and the iPeng > result is the same as back in 2013. LMS 7.9 on OSX adds those > additional problems (b) and (c), so these may well be a regression. > Problems b) and c) probably happen on tracks where there is no track artist at all. I suspect the issue here is that there are too many possible configurations and not all of them might be well-tested because it takes so long to switch between them and do a rescan in the process. I, for example, use two separate lists for artists and albumartists in LMS 7.9 and I don't see your issues, I have all tracks in compilations listed with the track artist. And I unfortunately right now don't have the three hours to spare that re-configuring, scanning, testing and reversing the configuration would cost me (a scan of my library takes well above 1 hour over the network from my LMS 7.9 Mac). Especially since there wouldn't be anything I can do short of confirming or not confirming your observation. You are using a recent LMS 7.9 build, right? > > I guess I should ask Michael about this? as you can tell I can offer no > technical assistance other than user testing I'm afraid. Yes, definitely. The Beta-Forum would be the right place for this. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
