Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Classical music example with Custom Browse/Custom Scan ?
Thanks to your help I have what I need in a very straightforward manner though no doubt it could be further enhanced. I use the composer, artist, title, album and track number tags only but how they are used does depend on the type of piece. For a multi-part work, eg. a symphony or sonata, then the album tag is used to store the work name (eg. Symphony #1) and the artist is appended to this in the form of conductor and orchestra though one could use other artists involved such as a singer. Whatever helps identify the particular performance really. Your basic 'composer' menu then works fine for me. Jump to composer then scroll through the works. The title should force the order of playing - it does matter that the 4th movement doesn't come before the 2nd! The obvious extension (or complication) would to add the the artists tag as the next level down but I'm happy with this as I don't have that many of the same works by different artists. I do complete the tag with fuller artist info but I don't feel the need to browse by it. For a single-part piece I use the title as the album name as well. These often come from an artist's recital where several composers may be featured on one album so one may want to access the recital as a whole or find individual pieces by a composer. The first of these I do by browsing the music folder as the recital will have been stored in a sub-folder under the artist's folder. The second type of access, of course, is as for the multi-part works. As I say, I'm happy with this but I think I'll have to look at your multi-library plug-in next as I have classical mixed up with jazz and rock in the libray (though not on the disks). I've thrown away all rock and pop composer info to thin down the menu but I find jazz composers info useful - just need to split it up from classical. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35420 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Classical music example with Custom Browse/Custom Scan ?
Perhaps I should have also said that I use the SB3 menus almost exclusively - I don't have a PC in the room with the hi-fi.So I don't know anything about the right-click stuff. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35420 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse help please
I've deleted re-extracted and created 2 folders for the config templates. I tried to create a Composer menu using the defaults and I do now get a menu again - it just doesn't match the data though I realise this could be a database issue rather than CustomBrowse. I can see that there are 4 album tags under 'Mahler' for 4 different performances of a work (i.e. work+artist) - one shows up correctly and the others don't - they just still show the original tag of just the work and so are duplicated. Perhaps I should delete and recreate the library? Well, that's what was I'm trying now. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35186 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse help please
Clearing the library completely has sorted it - sorry for the red herrings! Thanks for your support. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35186 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse help please
Thanks, yes that's what I want but I seem to have tied things in knots. Above I described overwriting the composers.cb.xml file with the contents of the composers.xml in the templates folder. It did give me I wanted briefly though the menu contents seemed out of date despite a forced rescan or 2. It didn't stick either and composers.cb.xml reverted - I can't repeat this either, the browser window just gives an error when I try to save the file. The menu is now completely blank. I thought I'd go back to square zero - stopping SS, deleting the CB folder from plugins, restartting SS, stopping SS and re-extracting the CB zip file but it doesn't seem to be 'clean' process and I can't get back to the situation with CB installed and nothing configure. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35186 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse help please
I wanted to be able to browse by Composer through albums. I added the Custom Browse plugin (as well as few others from the same source) and thought I'd followed the instructions to add the basic menu into the basic menu. Sure enough a menu item called 'Composers' appears at the level underneath 'Browse'. However underneath it is another browse hiearchy with items for music folder, artists, playlists etc. Assuming I'd misunderstood and/or messed up I thought I'd remove that Composers menu but I can't see how to do that. Composers doesn't appear as an item on the Custom Browse website nor under the 'Enable/Disable menus' option nor even under the 'Edit menus' option. Is there a way to rub all of this out? Thanks -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35186 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse help please
OK - I can see how to modify the elements under the Composers menu. I disabled all but albums but that's not what I want I think as that's all that appears - just a menu item . Do I have to persuade it to scan for the composer tags before the menu is of use? -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35186 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Custom Browse help please
Still can't work out how to get back to the original but I did manage to re-add the Composer menu and replaced the XML with that in the templates folder. It caused a browser error but seems to have done the job. -- lyteroptes lyteroptes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7344 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35186 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
