As per pippin's reply to my 'orignal request'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?51929-iPeng-support-thread=862354=1#post862354)
posted in the ipeng thread, i'm reposting my question here as it seems
to be rather a LMS question than an ipen question -)
Toothless wrote:
> Hi iPengers,
>
> i've just started using LMS icw iPeng and I wondered if there is any way
> on how to search on track/song names...
> ipeng is giving me a browse folder named 'artists, albums' on the left
> hand side of the app... but there is no 'trackname' feature. Ok I know,
> when you do a search it's giving some hitlists per
> artist/album/tracks... so one needs to scroll to the 'track' section and
> scroll through that list in order to find the track you're looking
> for...
>
> I'd like to have a 'tracks' menu. When you click on it shows the list of
> tracks (maybe the first x tracks of course, cause loading al x-K tracks
> is a bit too much). I'm able to create a menu item 'tracks' through the
> "additional browse modes" setting, but after that i'm a bit stuck. It
> seems one is only able to choose from 2 'filters' - the 'artists' and
> 'albums' setting in 'browse by' field? This will show me all albums or
> artists when clikcing on the 'tracks' menu i've just created. In the
> 'contributing roles' i can only use ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, BAND, COMPOSER,
> CONDUCTOR, TRACKARTIST it seems? So not 'track/song'? (see screenshot
> below)
>
> Any idea on how I can create a 'track' menu which really lets me scroll
> through tracknames?
>
> In addition: how can i search for a track without this system displaying
> the artist/album list. Any operators i can use in order to find a track?
> For example: if i search for the trackname 'Time' - it will show me ALL
> songs where 'time' is in the trackname... this is annoying as there can
> be a lot of results. I've tried to search "Time" - 'Time' - %Time%
> ...but that's not giving me what i want?
>
> Thanks for your help/feedback already!
pippin wrote:
> OK, a few answers, if you want to discuss details please open a new
> thread because this is primarily a server configuration question.
>
> First: a complete "tracks" menu is not a good idea, on a weak server it
> can easily crash it with a large library and in any case with a large
> library you can expect a few hours of load time for that menu
>
> Regarding "Additional Browse Modes": I don't see you creating a tracks
> menu, I only see artists menus, I don't think you can create any
> "tracks" menu. There is "Top Tracks" which shows top rated tracks, no
> idea how that's determined.
>
> Regarding the Search: first, you can use the global search instead of
> iPeng's local search, just check the globe icon on iPad, on iPhone it's
> under "Extras". There you can select "My Music->Songs".
>
> Regarding search from the beginning of the title or from within the
> title, there's a server setting for that: Settings->My Music->Search
> within words.
1-> hence my remark to show only X-amount of hits in the first page? I'm
coming from a Sonos system and there one has the search through 'tracks'
option. I'm missing this feature.
2-> The screenshot is just one from the default settings. I removed the
"track" folder already, but if you put whatever what, you can only pick
the settings which are predefined under 'browse by' and 'Contribiton
roles' (no song/track names there). Question was on how to add this (if
possible?)
3-> i'll check the two other options, thanks!
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