Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
A new idea to solve this? We have playlists ofcourse where we create different once for each family member but isn't it a good idea to have Genre playlists/filters? Meaning the playlis/filterst would only consist of the in/exclusion of genres not actual tracks. This way you could create a playlist only including 'child music'. If you have tagged albums with i.e. genre; 'wife' you could easily create playlists including wife and a playlist excluding wife. Before browsing by album with the controller you could select such a playlist (or is a better name; filter?), then only browsing the albums you would like to see. Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm)- for SqueezeCenter SlimServer SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
PLynas;273320 Wrote: So what I basically am looking for is some way of making it so that she can easily access her subset of albums. One thing I did that was relatively quick and easy was just to create a playlist containing my wife's CDs. She can then either navigate to this or use the other playlists, or the general collection. -- gw43 gw43's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11327 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
chill;273595 Wrote: Last night I 'discovered' Erland's excellent Multi Library and Custom Browse plugins. My SB3 experience has been transformed! ... However, using the Multi Library plugin I was able to include all my best quality files files in my 'Standard Library' (defined as anything on my S: drive) and all the iTunes files in their own 'iTunes Library' (defined as anything on the P: drive). I'm not sure whether you have already done this or whether this is what you want, but there is an option in the multi library plugin to make a library only display the best format version of a song. I use have a few albums in mp3 and FLAC and I use this option to only view the best version when browsing my library or creating random mixes etc. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=217863 -- robroe robroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14248 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
Wow, I didn't know that. That's useful advice, thanks Robroe. -- chill chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
erland;273527 Wrote: If you are talking about the Multi Library plugin I don't think there is a template for defining a library through a tag scanned with the Custom Scan plugin. It is still possible to do but you will have to customize the library definition and edit the the SQL statement. Erland, Many thanks for the advice...however I am using the comments tag for information about the artist/album/piece so would prefer to use custom scan. I shall persevere with it. -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short MuckleEck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11301 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
Last night I 'discovered' Erland's excellent Multi Library and Custom Browse plugins. My SB3 experience has been transformed! At my wife's request I had included her iTunes library (principally because she wanted her playlists accessible), but the big downside was that many of our CDs and tracks were listed twice when browsing - once as the original FLAC file in the main library, and once as the MP3 created for use on an iPod. Worse still, it took a lot of button presses to find which version I was looking at. However, using the Multi Library plugin I was able to include all my best quality files files in my 'Standard Library' (defined as anything on my S: drive) and all the iTunes files in their own 'iTunes Library' (defined as anything on the P: drive). Using the Custom Browse plugin I was able to set things up so that at the top level of 'Browse' I see only 'Music Folder', 'Search', 'Standard Library' and 'iTunes Library', and entering either of the libraries I then get all of the original Browse options. Much simpler, and my wife and I can each find our own files without confusion. -- chill chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
I don't think there is a way for a plugin to put menus directly on the home menu of the SBC but I haven't investigated it in detail. Yes, it can be done using Player Settings - Menus Thank you Erland for the excellent plugins. Cheers, -- shvejk shvejk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
shvejk;273627 Wrote: I don't think there is a way for a plugin to put menus directly on the home menu of the SBC but I haven't investigated it in detail. Yes, it can be done using Player Settings - Menus On the SBC? As opposed to an SB3? -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon. SB2, Transporter, beta SBR, beta SBC, pre-production SBC Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
Mark Lanctot;273629 Wrote: On the SBC? As opposed to an SB3? I was thinking about SB3. Sorry -- shvejk shvejk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
I am in a similar, but reverse, situation in that I don't want to trawl through the 100s of CDs belonging to the kids to get to mine. I have setup a custom DB tag in each FLAC file using MP3Tag but am struggling to get Erland's plug in to work!...I think it is just patience and time to read the FAQ...etc...but this sounds as though it would work for you and your wife -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - Linn - Acoustat - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short MuckleEck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11301 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
Besides unique tagging, you could also just create a special sub-directory/folder that only contains her music. She could then browse directly to just that music folder and see only her CDs. If it is a small collection as you say, she probably knows what is on each CD that she wants to hear so won't require the fancier multiple search options that is important for a larger collection. However, since her music would also be tagged, it'd show up as easily available to you when you search for a specific artist, genre, album, etc. -- mlsstl mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
My daughter's SB only has a subset of my library on it which is defined by putting her name in a comments tag, I use Erlands plugins to achieve this. I'm not sure whether you can add a new menu to the SBC that just lists the subset though. Craig -- Craig MC2Slim - Windows Shell and J River Media Center Integration for Squeezebox. http://www.duff-zapp.co.uk Craig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=96 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
PLynas;273320 Wrote: So what I basically am looking for is some way of making it so that she can easily access her subset of albums. My wife and I use MusicIP Mixer. We set up a filter with her name and it's the default filter for the Squeezebox. Through it, she doesn't hear any of my Frank Zappa. Similarly, there is a filter with my name that's the default for my Softsqueeze player at work, and through it I don't hear any of her George Michael. While it doesn't stop either of us from browsing the whole collection, we generally listen to mixes and it solves that issue perfectly (as well as making truly outstanding mixes...I LOVE the MusicIP mixer) -- thing-fish ' Most Recent Tracks' (http://www.last.fm/user/thing-fish/?chartstyle=basicrt10) thing-fish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5288 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
thing-fish;273436 Wrote: ...she doesn't hear any of my Frank Zappa. ...I don't hear any of her George Michael. Opposites DO attract! -= Jim -- JimC well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that. -- BKlaas' college buddy JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??
MuckleEck;273327 Wrote: I have setup a custom DB tag in each FLAC file using MP3Tag but am struggling to get Erland's plug in to work!...I think it is just patience and time to read the FAQ If you are talking about the Multi Library plugin I don't think there is a template for defining a library through a tag scanned with the Custom Scan plugin. It is still possible to do but you will have to customize the library definition and edit the the SQL statement. If you like to define the library by a tag the easiest way is to put the information in the COMMENT tag because this won't require Custom Scan and the default library template in Multi Library allows you to limit a library to a specific value in the COMMENT tag. If you are talking about the Custom Browse plugin there are some menu templates that can be limited to a specific custom tag, but I think the best way to accomplish what you like is by defining the library with the Multi Library plugin and use Custom Browse menus limited to the defined library. Craig;273347 Wrote: My daughter's SB only has a subset of my library on it which is defined by putting her name in a comments tag, I use Erlands plugins to achieve this. I'm not sure whether you can add a new menu to the SBC that just lists the subset though. With the latest beta version of Multi Library/Custom Browse you should be able to use the Custom Browse menus also on the SBC. They will be put inside the main Music Library menu, I don't think there is a way for a plugin to put menus directly on the home menu of the SBC but I haven't investigated it in detail. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43917 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
