Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS - Random Mix - New Music
AF1 wrote: > I find virtual libraries most useful when I want browse menus. > The date you -added- music to your LMS library is what I'd use: install > '*Dynamic Playlists*' (https://github.com/AF-1#-dynamic-playlists) (DPL) > and '*Dynamic Playlist Creator*' > (https://github.com/AF-1#-dynamic-playlist-creator) (DPLC). In DPLC > *create a new custom dynamic playlist* using the *Random Tracks - > Advanced* template. Choose a descriptive name, then scroll down to > "Limit to last added tracks?" and select a time period, e.g. 4 weeks > before the last library import. Save and then go to the DPL menu (in the > LMS home menu) and find your dynamic playlist. It should play all tracks > added to your library up to 4 weeks before the last library import. And > since it's tied to the last library import, it's a rolling date, no need > to update your dynamic playlist. But that's just how I would go about > it. Thank you. It's a solution. To reiterate, I was simply requesting an expansion of the 'core' Random Mix functionality (songs, artists, albums, years), to include LMS's handy New Music feature... Cheers, Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117194 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS - Random Mix - New Music
kidstypike wrote: > Yes, I changed it, but I don't see it matters at all, it lists newest at > the top, getting older as you scroll down. Those at the bottom must be > 20 years old. :p You & I have different expectations of "New Music"! Much of the time, I listen to my collection with Random Mix > Songs. I'd also like to listen to Random Mix > New Music, where New Music is stuff I bought recently (not in the past 20 years!). Btw, do you really have stuff that's still got 20+ years old timestamps?! Or, do you mean you saved an Advanced Search that lists stuff by YEAR tag? So, I guess Random Mix > New Music is indeed a 'new feature request'. I'd vote for it :D Thanks for your feedback, kidstypike. jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117194 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS - Random Mix - New Music
kidstypike wrote: > If you save the search as a Library View, then it's dynamic, any new > scanned music is automatically added. > > Again, what do you call "New music", pic below shows my "New Music" > page(s), 1409 albums, that's the number of albums in the folder that LMS > scans? > > For me, Home > New Music is (the most recent) 100 out of 2310 albums. I have not changed any Settings related to New Music. I like the concept of the most recent 100 purchases :-) Cheers, Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117194 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS - Random Mix - New Music
kidstypike wrote: > Depends what you deem "New Music"? > > You can make a random mix of new music tracks using Advanced search > using your own criteria, and play all found tracks shuffled. > > You can save the search results as a Library view or a Saved Search. > > Yeah, get that, thanks. Needs updating every time (I buy a lot of music - bandcamp junkie!). By "New Music", I mean the "New Music" category on the LMS homepage. Cheers, Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117194 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS - Random Mix - New Music
I can't see a way to select 'New Music' as a Random Mix choice - am I missing a trick? Or is this in the realm of feature request? Kind Regards, Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117194 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Material Skin :: Composer field in Track View
cpd73 wrote: > Material can be configured to show the composer for certain genres - see > the 'Material Skin' settings in LMS's server settings. Ah. Thanks! Don't quite get why display of Composer should be limited by Genre (I've set it to '*')! Conductor, sure. (Bear in mind that most Musicbrainz, CDDB, etc. downloaded tags don't seem to include Genre!). Now, in all those acres of space that exist on the Right-Hand side of the Track view, could also show *Comments* (Might be a bit contentious, as [e.g.] iTunes makes extensive use of the TXXX tag, with all sorts of unpleasant UUID type rubbish.) I tend to paste stuff like recording session info / remix artist info / etc. into the Comments tag. Would be lovely to be able to see that. Thanks cpd73, Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116059 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Material Skin :: Composer field in Track View
I've got the Default Skin to show the ID3v2 TCOM field in the Queue view. Was wondering if it might be possible to display it in Material Skin (perhaps in the Track view)... High-quality mock-up(:o): 37380 Cheers, Jon +---+ |Filename: ksnip_20220301-102625_scaled.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37380| +---+ jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116059 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library
d6jg wrote: > @johnd > > What the above means is you just need to find an image for The Family - > name it artist.jpg and put it in your Artist folder for The Family and > do a rescan and it should be picked up. Thanks Slarti' & Jim. Sure plonking an artist.jpg in the Artist folder does what you describe. As I said, I'm not particularly bothered, but thanks anyway! All gone a bit off thread, so hoping @Roland0 will check back, and see my request :) Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112602 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library
slartibartfast wrote: > You define the artist artwork folder in "Music and Artist Information" > settings. Yeah, sure, aware of that. And, as per your screengrab, I too have it disabled. (I don't want to bother with providing my own Artist artwork; just let the plugin do it.) jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112602 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library
slartibartfast wrote: > You can change the artist pics yourself if you like. Just find the > incorrect one in the artist artwork folder and replace it. > I don't think that's so simple with mherger's 'Music and Artist Information' plugin. (I don't provide my own Artist artwork, and rely on the plugin to do that (with it's default settings).) Certainly can't find a 'artist artwork folder' anywhere under /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/. Tbh, I'm not that bothered with odd 'issues' like my Family / The Family artwork. But would be good if the get_albums HTML output was correct :D Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112602 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Standing Ovation
The only 'electronic product' in my life that truly enriches it. Thanks so much to everyone involved. Jon jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115995 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library
And those 2 artists appear like so in the UI (shame that slimserver pulled the same artist pic for the 2 [wildly different!] bands): 37302 Jon +---+ |Filename: ksnip_20220223-120454.png| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37302| +---+ jonhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=864 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112602 ___ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] How to list all Albums and Artists in LMS library
Thanks so much Roland0 for lms_getalbums - pretty much exactly what I
needed. I have but one request (would have a go myself, but my Python
knowledge is VERY rudimentary - pretty much do everything I do with Bash
scripts...).
Here's the issue (fyi, I use the --no-sortcase --sort-ignorearticles
options):
- Artist 1 Name: *Family* (both TPE1 & TPE2 tags are "Family")
- Artist 2 Name: *The Family* (both TPE1 & TPE2 tags are "The
Family")
- In LMS Settings > My Music > Articles to ignore when sorting, I
have: The El La Los Las Le Les
lms_getalbums produces:
36279
The first 5 albums are by Artist 1; The 6th album ("The Family") is by
Artist 2. But, everything is grouped under the "Family" artist name.
So, what would be really good(!) would be something like IF ArtistName
includes an "Article to ignore when sorting", THEN append ", " to ArtistName. So, in my example, I would see the first 5
albums listed under ArtistName "Family", and the 6th album listed
separately under ArtistName "Family, The".
Hope that makes sense. And I rather suspect it would require a lot of
rework in your script (not to say the possible addition of a further
command line switch... "--append-ignorearticles").
Regards, Jon
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