Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-02-02 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Klanderman wrote: > SS does support multiple, custom genres: you have to set the option to > allow multiple tags and tell it the separator you want to use. Seems > a number of people are using semicolon ";". Aksherly that works rather well and it does what I

RE: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Peter van Cooten
Slimserver is perfectly capable of handling multiple genres: check the "multiple items in tag" in the behaviour settings. Another question is what happens when you have the genre tag "rap;indecent", and start a random mix INcluding "rap" and EXcluding "indecent". I don't know, but I guess it stil

Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Snarlydwarf wrote: > In other words, it's an "or" of the tags, which may bite you if you use > multiple-genres per track (ie, there's no way to make 'Rock' not play > the first track at the moment). And that's the crux of the issue as I'd like to exclude 'bad lan

Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richie wrote: > Slimserver does read multiple genres in separate tags. > > Mp3tag and foobar2000 also allow you to set multiple genres in separate tags. Ah thanks, It sounds like it's worthwhile me pursuing that line in case Random Mix is ever updated to include

Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Richie
> Actually, thinking about this some more I'm a bit confused. ID3V2.3 > supports multiple genres so shouldn't Slimserver just follow the > standard? (not that there are many programmes around that allow the input > of multiple genres in this way - ID3-TagIT is the only I've come across). Slimserve

Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Klanderman wrote: > SS does support multiple, custom genres: you have to set the option to > allow multiple tags and tell it the separator you want to use. Seems > a number of people are using semicolon ";". Actually, thinking about this some more I'm a bit

Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Kevin Weller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Klanderman wrote: > I haven't tried Random Mix yet, but judging from threads on this forum > it does not yet support including and excluding genres which is really > needed for this to work right. Oh yes, you're quite correct of course and I'd forgotten that.

Re: [slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Greg Klanderman
> Kevin Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (It just occured to me that if I add pseudo-genres to music (bad > language, party, exercise...) I could exclude them based on genre but > is Slimserver capable of decoding multiple genres in a tag and is the > genre table for random mix populate

[slim] Random Mix: Limiting what is played

2006-01-31 Thread Kevin Weller
I'm not sure how I can achieve this and I suspect it's not possible but here goes anyway. My Squeezeboxes are on random mix pretty much full time. That can give me an issue if music with bad language is played at an inopportune time such as when children or 'sensitive' people are in the house.