Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-03-13 Thread Philip Meyer
I think the problem is in this element. textarea name=page_content rows=40 cols=120 onfocus=clear_default_content(this) As soon as you type inside this box, it wipes out the right hand scroll bar and messes up somehow. This was the same problem that I experienced when I tried to write the

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-03-13 Thread Philip Meyer
If you find the time, could you add to and correct the info in the table? In particular, can you clarify the use of BAND, PERFORMER, and ALBUMARTIST, whether they're treated as equivalent, or if there's a difference, please note what that might be. Could cue sheet tags be added to the table (or

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-27 Thread Steve Tregidgo
on 2006-02-26 18:30 Michaelwagner said the following: OK, I can understand why you'd want multiple genres and multiple artists for a track, but why multiple titles? Is this for, like The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) Cher ? So it would show up under both if I recoded it as The Shoop

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-27 Thread slimpy
JJZolx Wrote: 2.2 is different, but what about 2.3 and 2.4? If a tag new to 2.4 is used in a 2.3 formatted id3 tag, will it be recognized by SlimServer? If so, then there's no need to document them separately. I use TSOP frames (new as of 2.4) in existing 2.3 tags without any problems.

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-27 Thread slimpy
Michaelwagner Wrote: While it's a bit tough to plow through, the definitive reference, such as it is, for id3 tags (the ones used in mp3 files) is located here: http://www.id3.org/develop.html For the three sort order tags, here is the explanation from that web site: TSOA The

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-27 Thread JJZolx
slimpy Wrote: Not having a sort tag related to TPE2 (Band) is a major flaw. There's no reason SlimServer couldn't create some (non-standard) sort tag for BAND/TPE2/ALBUMARTIST. ALBUMARTISTSORT? If I'm not mistaken, ID3v2.3/4 permits freeform tags by using its TXXX tag, so it could have the

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread dean blackketter
On Feb 1, 2006, at 12:08 AM, ceejay wrote: A quick look in the wiki suggests that someone (finnie ?) has started to create a page on this subject but as yet it is empty. A case of watch this space, perhaps? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags I've updated this

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Michaelwagner
I added comment about ; separating multiple genres. I think this semi-colon feature works for several tags, but I don't know which (other than genre). -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile:

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread JJZolx
Michaelwagner Wrote: I added comment about ; separating multiple genres. I think this semi-colon feature works for several tags, but I don't know which (other than genre). It's in the server settings. I changed your comment. :) Does SlimServer support id3v2.4? I thought I'd read something

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Dan Sully
* JJZolx shaped the electrons to say... Does SlimServer support id3v2.4? I thought I'd read something about the library being used only supporting v2.3. Or maybe that was some other software. Yes - it supports v2.4. And is preferred even, from a Unicode standpoint. -D -- weezyl $6.66: The

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Michaelwagner
OK, I can understand why you'd want multiple genres and multiple artists for a track, but why multiple titles? Is this for, like The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) Cher ? So it would show up under both if I recoded it as The Shoop Shoop Song;It's in His Kiss -- Michaelwagner

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread JJZolx
Michaelwagner Wrote: OK, I can understand why you'd want multiple genres and multiple artists for a track, but why multiple titles? Is this for, like The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) Cher ? So it would show up under both if I recoded it as The Shoop Shoop Song;It's in His Kiss

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Dan Sully
* JJZolx shaped the electrons to say... It appears to only apply to album titles. If this is new for 6.5, we should probably also document differences between SlimServer versions to show which are only beta. Beats the hell out of me why this was needed, but I vaguely recall a forum thread

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Michaelwagner
Dan Sully Wrote: It should just grow as you add columns. I think the problem is with the editing box shown to you by the wiki when you try to edit the table. *That* doesn't grow, and moreover mangles the right hand side badly for long lines. -- Michaelwagner

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Dan Sully
* Michaelwagner shaped the electrons to say... Dan Sully Wrote: It should just grow as you add columns. I think the problem is with the editing box shown to you by the wiki when you try to edit the table. *That* doesn't grow, and moreover mangles the right hand side badly for long lines.

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread JJZolx
Dan Sully Wrote: SlimServer does support Lyrics tags - which is why they're on the Wiki. I wasn't aware of this support, but you need to rethink that is why they're on the Wiki. With folks like myself with only a 1/2 understanding of the inner workings of SlimServer editing the wiki, I'm sure

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Michaelwagner
Dan Sully Wrote: Ah, ok. I can make that bigger. Dan: I looked at this some more. As soon as you type new text into the request element for the table, the formatting on the right hand side gets all messed up, to the point where there are 4 or 5 character positions where you need to type blind.

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Dan Sully
* JJZolx shaped the electrons to say... have the version separation there for now. 2.2 is different, but what about 2.3 and 2.4? If a tag new to 2.4 is used in a 2.3 formatted id3 tag, will it be recognized by SlimServer? If so, then there's no need to document them separately. I haven't

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Michaelwagner said the following on 02/26/2006 06:30 PM: OK, I can understand why you'd want multiple genres and multiple artists for a track, but why multiple titles? Is this for, like The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) Cher ? So it would show up under both if I recoded it as The

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Michaelwagner
Robin Bowes Wrote: One pertinent example that springs to mind is alternative titles for classical works, e.g.: The Well-Tempered Klavier;Das Wohltemperierte Clavier;Le Clavier bien tempere; Il clavicembalo ben temperato Ah, thank you, Robin. Sometimes a concrete usage example goes a long

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread dborn
Wow, thanks to everyone for documenting the tags that are used by SlimServer. This will simplify things for many people I'm sure! Looking at the list of supported tags, most of them are straightforward and self-explanatory, others are a little less clear what they are used for (and how they

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread JJZolx
dborn Wrote: Wow, thanks to everyone for documenting the tags that are used by SlimServer. This will simplify things for many people I'm sure! Looking at the list of supported tags, most of them are straightforward and self-explanatory, others are a little less clear what they are used

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-26 Thread Michaelwagner
While it's a bit tough to plow through, the definitive reference, such as it is, for id3 tags (the ones used in mp3 files) is located here: http://www.id3.org/develop.html For the three sort order tags, here is the explanation from that web site: TSOA The 'Album sort order' frame defines a

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff B
On 2/1/06, dborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1 or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 various artists albums. Now it takes too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then rescan the whole database. This makes a

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-20 Thread dborn
Yes, thanks Geoff. Doing that little subset allowed me to quickly fix most of my problems. The disc and discc tags ended up just being user-entered tags so the one I had to use was discnumber or something similar (the one that gets mapped to TPOS) and that worked. Now I have my multi-disc sets

Re: [slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-16 Thread Philip Meyer
A quick look in the wiki suggests that someone (finnie ?) has started to create a page on this subject but as yet it is empty. A case of watch this space, perhaps? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags Sorry, that was me. I created the entry and wrote a load of stuff,

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-03 Thread dborn
Thanks Jim, I exclusively use MP3 files and use Mp3tag to maintain the tags. I can create a tag named compilation and set it to 1 but will it be recognized by SS? I guess I could go digging in the perl code to try to understand what it does but I would think that some people here (especially the

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-03 Thread Michaelwagner
There is a tag already for this but I'm at work and don't have the source here. Either someone can step in or else I'll research it over the weekend. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile:

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-03 Thread Siduhe
There's a lengthy discussion of compilation behaviour over in the Ripping thread - largely me trying to get my head round a particular type of behaviour by the SB - which may help. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20595 Tag Rename does a fine job of adding the compilation tag

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-03 Thread Michaelwagner
There you go. Now I don't have to look it up. Thanks, Siduhe -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-01 Thread ceejay
A quick look in the wiki suggests that someone (finnie ?) has started to create a page on this subject but as yet it is empty. A case of watch this space, perhaps? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServerSupportedTags However this page has been blank for a while so I'm not sure if this

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-01 Thread dborn
You got my vote... :-) I guess I should try a small subset of my music collection with maybe 1 or 2 multi-disc albums and 1 or 2 various artists albums. Now it takes too long to go change everything (even if Mp3tag is good) and then rescan the whole database. Last time I tried to use the

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-02-01 Thread JJZolx
dborn Wrote: Hi, I've read many threads and have had my share of tagging questions concerning slimserver. It would be very useful to have documentation on the subject of what tags should be used and how, in order to use all the great features in slimserver. Maybe it's just me but I can't

[slim] Re: Documenting the use of tags in Slimserver

2006-01-31 Thread Michaelwagner
One of the problems is that development in this area moves so quickly, it's hard to document ... -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: