That's exactly my use case (except that my daughter can read now). I was
referring to KidsPlay because she asked me to leave the KidsPlay setup
(simply pressing buttons) but add a selection menu for SOME of her stuff
where she can browse through the list. The library approach seems to be
the right one. But is it possible to switch to the library view from the
server/from a plugin?
I must admit that the library creation isn't the most user friendly so
far. But you usually do this once, and _you_ are a tinkerer :-).
Once defined you can use it in various ways:
- you can tell LMS to use tracks included in a library view only,
providing all the usual menus (Artists, Albums, Genres etc.). That's the
default for my office SB, where I use the "No Kids!" view by default.
- you can use a library view to create an additional album or artists
menu filtered by that view. That's how I create the "Kids" home menu
(albums) item in the otherwise un-filtered regular LMS access. This
gives them quick access to their stuff, while I can still access all the
music through the regular menus.
I have played around with SqueezePlay yesterday after my mail and
increased the loglevels. I saw that selecting the music folder on the
Radio lead to a big JSON structure being sent around that contained the
displayed entries. Wouldn't it be possible somehow to send this JSON
from a script or something (KidsPlay offers an API to run an arbitrary
command on the server).
Somehow yes. But LMS is already doing a lot of processing of the raw
data. What you see is the result to the "browselibrary" command IIRC.
That command uses IDs based on your navigation structure, not the file
system.
--
Michael
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