Re: [slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-28 Thread jistme
Just mentioning this in case someone else is interested in this, or one day stumbles onto this thread: I tried to contact the creator of the plugin, but it seems I am much too late to this party, and he has left the premises a long time ago.

Re: [slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-23 Thread jistme
kidstypike wrote: > To play Joni Mitchell's album "Blue" > Search (button) > Albums > "2583" > > press the play button? My memory for album titles is not as good as it used to be (in the years that I owned less than 100 records ;-) 'Blue' by JM I would remember, but especially for newer

Re: [slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-23 Thread kidstypike
jistme wrote: > Wow, that's absolutely brilliant. > Thank you kidstypike! > And of course Stuart Hickinbottoms! > > The only thing that it doesn't seem to be able to do, is search through > Album Artist exclusively? > (I often want to play a full album by an artist that I have in mind, and >

Re: [slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-23 Thread jistme
kidstypike wrote: > Have you tried Stuart Hickinbottoms Lazy Music Search plugin? > > To find the artist "Eagles", press the search button on the remote > > Artists > enter "3245" and up pops Eagles. The Byrds would be "2973", > ABBA "", etc.. The more letters (number buttons) you press the

Re: [slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-23 Thread bpa
jistme wrote: > Hopefully there is a setting for this that I missed? Time between chars is set by WebUI Setting/Interface/Text entry Timing but minimum is 1 sec. bpa's Profile:

Re: [slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-23 Thread kidstypike
jistme wrote: > A longtime user, feeling silly only now asking if/how this can be done: > > Using a Squeezebox Classic, browsing by Album Artist: > If I press a character key on the remote, the display will show the > first artist starting with that letter. > So if I press 'S', that could

[slim] Browsing artists entering multiple characters on SB Classic?

2018-01-23 Thread jistme
A longtime user, feeling silly only now asking if/how this can be done: Using a Squeezebox Classic, browsing by Album Artist: If I press a character key on the remote, the display will show the first artist starting with that letter. So if I press 'S', that could result in Sade. But if I want to

[slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread slartibartfast
Just noticed that 'The Killers' are missing from my artist list when using the Logitech android app. The albums appear in the album list with 'The Killers' as the artist. Orange Squeeze, Squeezer, the web ui and all players show all artists. Deleting the app data doesn't help either.

Re: [slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread slartibartfast
slartibartfast wrote: Just noticed that 'The Killers' are missing from my artist list when using the Logitech android app. The albums appear in the album list with 'The Killers' as the artist. Orange Squeeze, Squeezer, the web ui and all players show all artists. Deleting the app data

Re: [slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread pippin
Probably a caching issue? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7*

Re: [slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread slartibartfast
pippin wrote: Probably a caching issue? Well I deleted the app cache when I deleted the data and it happens on two devices. Do you mean a cache on the server? slartibartfast's Profile:

Re: [slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread pippin
Um, no, I meant the local App cache. So it's probably not the issue. You are not experimenting with the virtual,libraries in today's 7.9 version, aren't you? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free

Re: [slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread slartibartfast
pippin wrote: Um, no, I meant the local App cache. So it's probably not the issue. You are not experimenting with the virtual,libraries in today's 7.9 version, aren't you? No just 7.8.1. Strange thing is if I scroll down the artist list and then up again the missing artists appear but if I

Re: [slim] Missing artists using Logitech Android App

2014-06-11 Thread pippin
Ah, then it's probably loading pages wrongly. I've seen that while scrolling, too. Well, you could use one of the other Android Apps --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [slim] Missing Artists?

2012-06-09 Thread owenhamburg
Dear amey01, I have exactly the same problem. Hank Williams III is for example missing from the artists, though his albums appear and you can search for him. If you click on the links you can find a list of all albums that I have of his, but you cant find him on the artist folder, though his

[slim] Missing Artists?

2012-06-01 Thread amey01
I just upgraded to 7.7.2 (from 7.7.1) and noticed there were less artists (by count) than previously. On going through, I have found there are some artists missing from the list. These artists are searchable without issue, but they are missing from the Artists list. Am I missing something?

[slim] No Artists !

2011-03-09 Thread technojunkie
I have recently installed server version 7.5.3 and, after re-scanning my music library, everything seemed fine. However, when I manually restarted the server, all the artist names had disappeared. All album info and pictures are there but artists is shown as 0. I therefore cleared the cache and

Re: [slim] No Artists !

2011-03-09 Thread Phil Leigh
technojunkie;616684 Wrote: I have recently installed server version 7.5.3 and, after re-scanning my music library, everything seemed fine and all the the library info was shown correctly. However, when I manually restarted the server, the number of artists had changed to 0 and the artist

Re: [slim] No Artists !

2011-03-09 Thread technojunkie
Phil Leigh;616702 Wrote: You should have an error message in scanner.log or server.log - your problem is usually caused by a failure in the very last stage of the scanning process - often anti-virus software is the problem, what are you using? Thanks for the post Phil. I'm using the Avast

Re: [slim] No Artists !

2011-03-09 Thread Phil Leigh
technojunkie;616793 Wrote: Thanks for the post Phil. I'm using the Avast free anti-virus software and haven't previously had this problem. I should also add that the music scan always stops due to Music Scan Terminated Unexpectedly and I have to load the rest of my library by scanning

Re: [slim] No Artists !

2011-03-09 Thread technojunkie
Phil Leigh;616797 Wrote: That error message can be ignored. However, the Music scan terminated unexpectedly error is a real problem. It's hard to explain without a lot of typing, but what you are seeing is a scan failure just before the last step (you will have artists, but they won't be

Re: [slim] No Artists !

2011-03-09 Thread technojunkie
I seemed to have resolved this problem. I deleted the folder containing the last entry in the log before the music scan terminated which was : Slim::Utils::Scanner::scanDirectory (333) Scanning: F:\My Documents\My Music\Music\Tom Petty The Heartbreakers\Greatest Hits\Breakdown.flac I also

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-14 Thread Phil Meyer
its true that you don't need albumarist tags on everything... for SBS. but to just put them on everything doesn't hurt It does change the behaviour a bit in some places within some Squeezebox player UI's. eg. It also means it will list both the artist and album artist in song info, which in

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Yeah I base all of my tagging standards on foobars recommendations - so I use ALBUM ARTIST (rather than ALBUMARTIST or TPE2) for defining VA albums. I suppose you're right that SBS won't use this in any of it's logic - however through the web interface I can now search for Artist Soundtrack (and

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-13 Thread lordgibbness
Yeah I base all of my tagging standards on foobars recommendations - so I use ALBUM ARTIST (rather than ALBUMARTIST or TPE2) for defining VA albums. I suppose you're right that SBS won't use this in any of it's logic - however through the web interface I can now search for Artist Soundtrack

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread lordgibbness
This looks like a complete guide to compilation albums in SBS. I'll have to have a good read... http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Compilations -- lordgibbness lordgibbness's Profile:

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread lordgibbness
Philip Meyer;588703 Wrote: When you say you are setting the albumartist tag, what tag format are you setting? If it is id3, are you actually setting Band (called the TPE2 frame), or an Album Artist tag? Are you aware that SBS automatically detects albums as compilations if you don't

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread snarlydwarf
lordgibbness;589009 Wrote: I just thought I should make clear that I am using the 'ALBUM ARTIST' tag to hold the string Compilation or Soundtrack as per the foobar2000 standards for 'Various Artists' fields. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Encouraged_Tag_Standards

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread lordgibbness
snarlydwarf;589011 Wrote: That would be problematic for me: what is to differentiate a compilation album from a legit release by the artist named 'Various Artists'? http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8e107957-c443-45b4-84f7-8b054499ef78.html there is a difference between an album by the group

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread JJZolx
What do you hope to accomplish by having an album marked as a compilation? If you set ALBUMARTIST to -anything-, and 'Group compilation albums together' is set, the individual artists will be considered 'track' arists and will not appear in your artist list. This is what most people want, so

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread lordgibbness
JJZolx;589023 Wrote: If you set ALBUMARTIST to anything, and 'Group compilation albums together' is set, the individual artists will be considered 'track' arists and will not appear in your artist list. This is what most people want, so that the artist list isn't cluttered by one-track

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread MrSinatra
lord, when i came to SBS, it was confusing because the standards and terms were all conflated, and thats still the case today. you need to understand some non-intuitive things, first check out the id3 standard for mp3s: www.id3.org notice there is no frame for albumartist (or album artist)

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread JJZolx
lordgibbness;589032 Wrote: This is exactly how SBS does NOT work though. I have 'ALBUM ARTIST' set to something (most ppl set it to VA - I set it to Compilation) but SBS requires the COMPILATION tag to be set, I believe. Requires it for *what*? What I'm asking is this What behavior do

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread snarlydwarf
lordgibbness;589016 Wrote: Hmm.. I'm not sure your example makes sense as the second rule from the fb2k article is tag should only exist if an album contains various artists. It should NOT be created when an album does not contain various artists. So you'd only add ALBUM ARTIST tag

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread lordgibbness
MrSinatra;589035 Wrote: lord, when i came to SBS, it was confusing because the standards and terms were all conflated, and thats still the case today. you need to understand some non-intuitive things, first check out the id3 standard for mp3s: www.id3.org notice there is no frame

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread Phil Meyer
I just thought I should make clear that I am using the 'ALBUM ARTIST' tag to hold the string Compilation or Soundtrack as per the foobar2000 standards for 'Various Artists' fields. Good; you're half way there. Because you have set ALBUM ARTIST=anything, by definition it is not a compilation,

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-12 Thread MrSinatra
np, let me just add some things though... its true that you don't need albumarist tags on everything... for SBS. but to just put them on everything doesn't hurt, AND makes for a more or less uniform exp across pretty much most every app. ...except foobar (it seems). if you are using TXXX

[slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread lordgibbness
Hi, I'm just wondering if the various artists logic works correctly? I have many compilations and soundtracks where i set the albumartist tag to 'Compilation' or 'Soundtrack' accordingly - but still have the artist set correctly (so that it is correct on a track-by-track basis. I can show

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
The method that works fine for me is (and always has been): 1) do NOT set albumartist to anything! - leave it blank. 2) set the COMPILATION tag to 1 All comps now appear under Various Artists in the various Browse menus. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread Phil Meyer
I'm just wondering if the various artists logic works correctly? Yes, it does work. I have many compilations and soundtracks where i set the albumartist tag to 'Compilation' or 'Soundtrack' accordingly - but still have the artist set correctly (so that it is correct on a track-by-track basis.

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread lordgibbness
Hi, the compilation tag sounds like a workaround which could work, but I'd like to see about getting the albumartist tagging working if I could in the first instance (no need to retag anything). I'll post back with full examples to help you understand what isn't working correctly. cheers. --

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread Phil Leigh
lordgibbness;588709 Wrote: Hi, the compilation tag sounds like a workaround which could work, but I'd like to see about getting the albumartist tagging working if I could in the first instance (no need to retag anything). I'll post back with full examples to help you understand what isn't

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread garym
Phil Leigh;588711 Wrote: If you set ALBUMARTIST to anything, SBS will not treat this as a compilation... unless you also set the COMPILATION tag to 1. There aren't any other choices. easy enough to pull up all your compilation albums in mp3tag and add COMPILATION tag with value of 1 for

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread snarlydwarf
Phil Leigh;588711 Wrote: If you set ALBUMARTIST to anything, SBS will not treat this as a compilation... unless you also set the COMPILATION tag to 1. There aren't any other choices. And a clarification as to why this is the case: if you have a tribute album that is composed of a dozen

Re: [slim] Various Artists

2010-11-11 Thread lordgibbness
Phil Leigh;588711 Wrote: If you set ALBUMARTIST to anything, SBS will not treat this as a compilation... unless you also set the COMPILATION tag to 1. There aren't any other choices. On the settings page 'My Music' there is a Compilations section which has the following options (which I

[slim] Various Artists Tagging Query

2010-01-10 Thread Richard Scales
Historically I have always tagged albums which contain tracks by various Artists so that each track has the Artist Name set to the Artists Name, the Track Title set to the Title of the Track and the Album Title set to the Title of the Album. I and using Tag Rename to do all my tagging. In

Re: [slim] Various Artists Tagging Query

2010-01-10 Thread Richard Scales
just be it - it's all in the tags (and how many times have I read that on these forums!) From: discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of Richard Scales Sent: 10 January 2010 15:31 To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: [slim] Various

Re: [slim] Various Artists: Is this the intended behavior?

2009-03-07 Thread Lleo_
This is it! not sure when I changed this setting, or whether an update to Squeezecenter came with this set as default, but now I know. Thanks a lot for helping! Good listening, Lleo_ -- Lleo_ Lleo_'s Profile:

[slim] Various Artists: Is this the intended behavior?

2009-03-06 Thread Lleo_
When I navigate on my SB3 to a specific genre, and within that to Various Artists, it brings up all the Various Artists albums I have, not just the ones in the genre I selected. On the screen it displays: 'selected genre'/Various Artists 1 of 139 'Title of my first Various Artists album' but

Re: [slim] Various Artists: Is this the intended behavior?

2009-03-06 Thread slimkid
settings - music library - Filter genres at the album track level. -- slimkid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wUP07DVq9E http://youtube.com/watch?v=nlrpe8Ig5m8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=dC9tGlwPln8

[slim] Rhapsody artists split in slimserver 7.1

2009-02-12 Thread y360
Rhapsody artists under Home Rhapsody My Library Artists in the default slimserver 7.1 skin are split into numbered pages (1 2 3 4 5 6 Next) with no indication as to what artists are under what number Can we have a single list like in SN (best solution IMHO), or else if you

[slim] 0 Artists in library after clean scan

2008-09-22 Thread taconaut
Hello, As I finished putting the stereo together, I wanted to set up the SqueezeServer again. To have a clean environment I made a clean scan of the library (Clear library and rescan everything). During the scanning process everything looked fine, but as soon as it had finished scanning, the

Re: [slim] 0 Artists in library after clean scan

2008-09-22 Thread Siduhe
This error has come up a few times and the general consensus appears to be that it's either virus scanner related or being caused by the MIP import choking on a character or tag. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37612highlight=FOREIGN+KEY I would try disabling your virus scanner

Re: [slim] 0 Artists in library after clean scan

2008-09-22 Thread taconaut
Hi Siduhe, I would try disabling your virus scanner and doing a full clear and rescan to see if that solves the problem The on-access scan is currently disabled in my McAfee antivirus as I had other Problems with SC accessing the DB. do you have any files with foreign characters in the tags

Re: [slim] 0 Artists in library after clean scan

2008-09-22 Thread Siduhe
What's interesting is that this error hasn't come up in a while - I thought it was fixed in 7.1, so curious that it has come back for you with 7.2. It might be worth trying a 7.2.1 nightly, since they have all the latest bug fixes. You could also try running the scan (either from within SC or

Re: [slim] 0 Artists in library after clean scan

2008-09-22 Thread taconaut
That's probably why I didn't find any thread mentioning my problem :) Am I being thick or is there a problem with the nightlies? If I go to the 7.2 version (actually the others as well), the folder is empty in http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/latest/ -- taconaut '@ last.fm'

Re: [slim] 0 Artists in library after clean scan

2008-09-22 Thread taconaut
Yippy, doing a rescan with the latest nightly build (7.2.1 - 23233) fixed my problem! AFAICT with the few clicks I did, everything is back to normal. Thanks for helping out! -- taconaut '@ last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/transcendentalA), 'using MusicIP Mixer' (http://www.musicip.com)

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-16 Thread ralphpnj
Interesting thread and related to this earlier thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43750 Only thing was during the discussion on the earlier thread I was told many things, some true and some not true, but the one thing I was not told was Boy, what a good idea!. So how come now

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-16 Thread egd
ralphpnj;329770 Wrote: In any event, I'm glad to see that others are beginning to see the potential of a fully linked music library/database and that the discussion is continuing. Hopefully this thread will ultimately bear more fruit than that earlier thread. I doubt it will result in any

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-15 Thread egd
gusi;326229 Wrote: I thought there was already a many to many relationship between artist and track in the schema. (Last time I looked it was 6.x). So you should be able to enter multiple artists.They are catered for insofar as you can browse all albums/ tracks an artist is involved in so

Re: [slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-10 Thread dundon00
Thanks guys. Last question: what's the way to do a full delete-and-re-scan nightly? In the iTunes section of SC settings it has an interval, so there's no start time. I'd like to to run at 2am daily. -- dundon00

Re: [slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-10 Thread erland
dundon00;328033 Wrote: Thanks guys. Last question: what's the way to do a full delete-and-re-scan nightly? In the iTunes section of SC settings it has an interval, so there's no start time. I'd like to to run at 2am daily. Configure the settings of the bundled Rescan Music Library

Re: [slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-09 Thread Siduhe
First thing to check is that you've got the right iTunes file listed in Squeezecenter for syncing purposes. Sorry if this sounds like a dumb suggestion, but a couple of people have been caught out by iTunes changing the name of the .xml file (following an upgrade) and not updating the link in

Re: [slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-09 Thread dundon00
Hi Siduhe, Thanks for the reply. I verified that my iTunes XML file location is right and that the relevant entries are indeed removed/changed in the XML file. Here's what's odd. I have iTunes and SqueezeCenter on the same box. When I originally set up SqueezeCenter, I set the iTunes XML

Re: [slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-09 Thread Siduhe
Is your music on the same hard drive as SC is installed on? The only reason I ask is that file://localhost/C:/MP3/classical/Mozart/SongName.mp3 doesn't look quite right if so - it should be file://localhost/MP3/classical/Mozart/SongName.mp3 or file://C:/MP3/classical/Mozart/SongName.mp3. I

Re: [slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-09 Thread erland
Make sure the Music Folder setting in SqueezeCenter setting is empty ? Make sure you don't have any playlists in the Playlist Folder that contains references to the songs you like to disappear. I think the automatic iTunes rescan triggers a New/Changed files rescan which won't remove any files

[slim] Remove Artists/Albums from Index

2008-08-08 Thread dundon00
I have my SqueezeCenter hooked up to itunes, and it refreshes every so often. However when I remove an album from my itunes index (i.e. go into itunes and hit Delete on a song to remove it from the index, but do NOT delete the file on disk), the change does not appear in my SqueezeCenter index

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-05 Thread gusi
I thought there was already a many to many relationship between artist and track in the schema. (Last time I looked it was 6.x). So you should be able to enter multiple artists. Try tagging your jazz albums where there are few 'fixed' bands but many collaborations between artists. It is no easy

[slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
Seeing the recent tagging related post on Tom Petty vs Tom Petty the Heartbreakers vs Mudcrutch etc. I've been thinking that it would be useful to have the ability to add an additional tag to audio tracks that SC recoginises and consequently allows users to capture the relationship between

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread funkstar
I guess this is the same as the relationship between Nick Cave The Bad Seeds vs Grinderman? Could also be used for artists that go by several different aliases, such as Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook and many other dance acts. -- funkstar

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
Yes, the utility being the ability to navigate/ identify those relationships and thus explore more music by an artist long after your grey matter has forgotten that Eric Clapton can be found playing on: Blind Faith, Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek the Dominos, John Lennon the Plastic Ono Band,

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread bhaagensen
This would be cool, but I would propose a more ambitious variant. Integration with the musicbrainz database. The musicbrainz database already contains lots of information like this. The benefits of integration with musicbrainz could be vast. Specifically for this thread e.g. potentially more

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread bhaagensen
egd;325825 Wrote: Yes, the utility being the ability to navigate/ identify those relationships and thus explore more music by an artist long after your grey matter has forgotten that Eric Clapton can be found playing on: Blind Faith, Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek the Dominos, John Lennon

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
bhaagensen;325829 Wrote: That is also within the realm of musicbrainz. Don't know how good the data are for the examples mentioned, but something like this would do exactly what you want. http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=739494 If it could be made to work without requiring

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread bhaagensen
egd;325832 Wrote: If it could be made to work without requiring Internet access once the data is loaded that'd be great, otherwise not. I guess it could. Similar to how taggers such as Picard pull data from MB for use in tags, SC could pull data and store in its database. -- bhaagensen

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread Khuli
egd;325825 Wrote: ... or that Gary Moore appears on Thin Lizzy, G Force, Skid Row and Greedy Bastards. and Colosseum II -- Khuli http://www.last.fm/user/khuli Khuli's Profile:

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread funkstar
I can see why you would want the meta data to be incuded in the iles themselfs, but for me, integration with MusicBrainz and having the data pulled down periodically would be great too. Perhaps it could be done in bulk as an option after the main library scan, with a scan option to just update

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
funkstar;325903 Wrote: I can see why you would want the meta data to be incuded in the iles themselfs, but for me, integration with MusicBrainz and having the data pulled down periodically would be great too. Perhaps it could be done in bulk as an option after the main library scan, with a

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread erland
Just information, if you don't already know this. If you use the LastFM scanning module in the Custom Scan plugin and also use Custom Browse, you will get access to the Similar artists statistics collected by LastFM. I've thought about implementing something similar towards musicbrainz, but

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
Khuli;325865 Wrote: and Colosseum II I knew that ;-/ -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*'

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
erland;325972 Wrote: Just information, if you don't already know this. If you use the LastFM scanning module in the Custom Scan plugin and also use Custom Browse, you will get access to the Similar artists statistics collected by LastFM. I've thought about implementing something similar

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread erland
egd;326058 Wrote: Thanks Erland, sounds like it could be pretty useful. Does it link related artists/ bands in one's library or does it suggest you may like b because you like a? I'm most keen to be able to explore interrelationships in my existing library. It's limited to the artists in

Re: [slim] Missing artists after complete scan in 7.0.1

2008-06-24 Thread Enoch Soames
I discovered a week or so back that I'm missing a number of artist folders. I can access and play them via the controller by browsing 'music folders,' but in the regular artist listings on Squeezecenter and the controller they're invisible. I can find individual albums in those folders when I

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread erland
slimkid;314225 Wrote: Hi Erland, sorry to abuse your time and patience, but could you just confirm what I think I understand (or assume) from all this: I just did some tests based on MP3 files with TPE2 tags and no custom tags. slimkid;314225 Wrote: If there is a unique ALBUMARTIST

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread Phil Meyer
What's wrong with putting Various Artists in the Album Artist tag if you are saying that you want this as the Album Artists name. Nothing really wrong with doing that. It's just a name after all. However, I don't consider Various Artists to be an artist name; it's another miss-use of the tag.

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread BBear
Folks - could someone please explain to me why we need this TPE logic at all. Over the last 2 years I have been following the guidelines for ripping my music collection using EAC into flac files. These are stored in the recommended ARTIST\ALBUM or VARIOS ARTIST\GENRE\ALBUM structure. Until SC7.01

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;314375 Wrote: What's wrong with putting Various Artists in the Album Artist tag if you are saying that you want this as the Album Artists name. Nothing really wrong with doing that. It's just a name after all. However, I don't consider Various Artists to be an artist name;

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread NigelC
I used to have my library and Slimserver set up just how I like it - Compilations were correctly listed under Various Artists and contributing artists did not appear in the main list of Artists. This seems to have changed, now that I've moved to SC 7 The problem occurs when an album with a main

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread MrSinatra
BBear;314411 Wrote: Folks - could someone please explain to me why we need this TPE logic at all. not sure what you mean by that. one thing is treat TPE2 as ALBUMARTIST which is fairly straight forward. the other thing is a function SC has of VA detection logic. i contend we don't need the

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread Phil Meyer
why does SC conflate an albums property, with how that album is named (named via album artist?) what i would do, is if something seems like a comp to SC, and there is no album artist or TPE2 tag for it to use, it should then use the ALBUM name, and set the COMP field in the positive. i know you

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-23 Thread Phil Meyer
I have just re-ripped Supernatural using the latest dBPoweramp (V13 Reference) and this automatically sets Compilation=0 which is helpful. It also sets Album Artist = Santana I think you'll find that dbPowerAmp stores Album Artist in a band tag. I have dbPowerAmp (don't use the ripper, only use

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread erland
I really don't understand the reason to start this discussion again, but I guess I've probably missed something. No, I'm not trying to silence anyone, I just don't understand why you guys keeps spending energy on something that's already solved instead of doing something useful with your time.

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread Phil Meyer
I really don't understand the reason to start this discussion again, but I guess I've probably missed something. No, I'm not trying to silence anyone, I just don't understand why you guys keeps spending energy on something that's already solved instead of doing something useful with your time. I

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread Phil Meyer
in other words, if it finds a string like Various Artist in TPE2 or an album artist tag, to then go ahead and classify it as a comp? doesn't that make sense? Absolutely not. A compilation album is when there are multiple artists on an album. If you have guest performers on an album and thus

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread MrSinatra
erland;314024 Wrote: I really don't understand the reason to start this discussion again, but I guess I've probably missed something. No, I'm not trying to silence anyone, I just don't understand why you guys keeps spending energy on something that's already solved instead of doing something

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread Phil Meyer
in such a case, if there is a mismatch, it WILL call that a VA album. i know this b/c that was the case with one of the 2 albums that was ID'd i mentioned in my previous post. the code andy quotes shows this. one mismatch on one track (out of two or more) is enough to get the classification. It

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread Phil Meyer
we may have discovered a bug with it that also relates to this 8324 issue, in that i can't find my 'TPE2=Various Artists' albums under the 'Home-Artists' list. I find this a strange thing to do. An album artist of Various Artists seems contradictory. Any artist name being Various Artists

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;314027 Wrote: I really don't understand the reason to start this discussion again, but I guess I've probably missed something. No, I'm not trying to silence anyone, I just don't understand why you guys keeps spending energy on something that's already solved instead of doing

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;314030 Wrote: in other words, if it finds a string like Various Artist in TPE2 or an album artist tag, to then go ahead and classify it as a comp? doesn't that make sense? Absolutely not. A compilation album is when there are multiple artists on an album. If you have guest

Re: [slim] Various Artists Logic... is it necessary?

2008-06-22 Thread MrSinatra
Philip Meyer;314035 Wrote: we may have discovered a bug with it that also relates to this 8324 issue, in that i can't find my 'TPE2=Various Artists' albums under the 'Home-Artists' list. I find this a strange thing to do. An album artist of Various Artists seems contradictory. why is

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