the only way to support this right now would be to modify the code itself. we
don't have a plugin architecture for this.
the place to start is the music catalog... add the ability to sort the database
according to some criteria and then modify the UI to display this.
elrod
Tim Williams wrote:
> Hello, all. I've recently found freeamp, and am looking into doing some
> work on it, and I was wondering how to proceed. What I'm looking for in an
> mp3 player is primarily great flexibility in the music browser. I currently
> use realjukebox pro ver. 1. The main feature I use there is it's
> categorization ability. It's musicbrowser ui can build all of the following
> trees:
> artist/album/song (i.e. what the "My Music" tree of freeamp does)
> artist/song
> album/song (extremely useful when an album has tracks from different
> artists)
> genre/artist/song
> genre/album/song
> genre/artist/album/song
>
> I intend to add similar funtionality to freeamp. I have a large music
> collection (over 400 CDs), so easy categorization like this is really
> important to me. Actually, I'd like to make it generic so that any tree
> could be built using any fields in the metadatabase. For example, when
> id3v2 support is in for the metadatabase, I can finally sort by composer (I
> have a large collection of classical music). My question is what the best
> way to proceed is. I've built and traced through freeamp, so I understand
> how it stores the artist list information and how the ui tree is generated.
> Would it be best to work on the base code? I'm sure I could extend what's
> there to do what I want. Or is a plugin the way to go (I don't understand
> plugins yet, but I see references to them)? Any ideas or hints?
>
> Tim,
>
> Win32 developer
>
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