Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-03-02 Thread SilverRS8
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-29 Thread gw43
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-29 Thread robroe
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-29 Thread chill
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-28 Thread MuckleEck
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.

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-28 Thread chill
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-28 Thread shvejk
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Lanctot
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-28 Thread shvejk
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:

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-27 Thread MuckleEck
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-27 Thread mlsstl
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-27 Thread Craig
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-27 Thread thing-fish
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-27 Thread JimC
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

Re: [slim] Wife's music accessible easily and quickly??

2008-02-27 Thread erland
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