willyhoops;241097 Wrote: > > I have already given a few examples and said my structre is basically > like a record shop might lay out their music but it's as complicated as > I like so its hard to describe everything without writing for hours. > > These are a few examples of the path to some cds.. > > \\Classical\Compilations\Horowitz in Moscow > \\Classical\Early Music\Gregorian Chant\Canto Gregoriano > \\Classical\Bach\Cantatas\Volume 6 > \\Classical\Bach\Mass in B Minor > \\Modern\1960s\Kinks\You really got me > \\New Age\Hu Song Meditation > \\Soundtracks\Pulp Fiction > > So I can easily and quickly build a custom complex structure using BMF > (I do really miss the ability to have shortcuts both to real albumns > and track lists however in my tree). > Just to confirm, if you like a structure like this Custom Browse will not be the best way to do it.
Some questions to clarify how you would like it to work. If we use your sample shown above: On which level in this structure do you expect so see cover art ? - On the top level when you have just entered BMF ? - After you have clicked on Classical ? Which album cover arts would be shown and where would the cover.jpg files be ? - After you have clicked on Bach ? Which album cover arts would be shown and where would the cover.jpg files be ? I haven't looked at the SlimServer code regarding this, but if the code is folder based and not database based, it might be possible to implement this by checking all sub folders for a cover.jpg and show that. Of course that would assume that you haven't embedded your cover arts in the MP3/FLAC files as tags and that you haven't got several albums stored in the same directory. The advantage for a solution like this is that you would be able to show pictures also for directories that aren't an album, for example you could put a cover.jpg in the "Classical" directory which represents classical music. The optimal solution would be to do something similar to what Microsoft's thumbnail view looks like, it automatically scans the sub directories for images and if it contains more than one it creates an image with four smaller images. As a side note, in your example it looks like you like to mix menu levels as in your example where a directory might contain both sub hierarchy directories, album directories and maybe even songs. If this is the case I really think BMF is the easiest way to accomplish this. Finally, I'm just asking these question to get a better understanding how you like it to work, someone else will have to do the real work. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39082 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
