More information in server playlists?

[gr0tus]

I checked in the change to prettyTitle allowing for greater
configurability, the current set of keywords are
TITLE, ARTIST, TRACKNUM, YEAR, ALBUM, COMMENT, GENRE, FILE

These are taken from the mp3tag information. However GENRE just
returns the code, not the description. FILE isn't really in the
mp3tag info, it returns the same info as what the plainTitle does.

I modified Misc::standardTitle to send the client specific format
string when it gets the prettyTitle so this will show up in the Music
Library and the Playlist on the Slim, I did not modify the HTTP
module, so the browser will continue to show things as before.

For brand new clients the default value of '%TRACKNUM. %TITLE' will
be inserted into their prettyFormat preference value, for existing
clients add the following line (correcting for your ip address:port
and desired formatting):

192.168.1.69:69-prettyFormat = %TRACKNUM. %ARTIST - %TITLE




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[John Ruttenberg]

I'm not married to the % as the marker that a keyword is coming next,
I chose it mainly because that is what EAC and LAME use. The
TITLE, ARTIST, TRACKNUM, YEAR, ALBUM, COMMENT, GENRE

I think this will be fine for now.

<b>1. Drive My Car</b> from <i>Rubber Soul</i> by The Beatles
Which worked out quite nicely and was quite compact.

OK for popular music, not so great for classical and jazz where the artist
list can be long and the titles can be very long.

It isn't really so hard to do the hierarchical listing:

artist = 0
album = 0

for each track
if track.artist != artist
// We have a new artist -- outdent and print it.
artist = track.artist
// assume we also have a new album
album = 0
if track.album != album
// Outdent and print
alubm = track.album

If we want to get fancy, though, we could try for some kind of
The Beatles
Rubber Soul
1. Drive My Car
....
Help
1. Help
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Alfred Brendel
The Piano Concertos - Disc 1
...
I don't think this would be so hard to do. It does make parsing

the

result of the status command harder, though. Ideally, there

should ba

a variant ot the status command for human readability and one for
remote applications to use, possibly with results in xml.

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[Scott McIntyre]

Great idea!

Something to watch out for tho: currently, we don't display the tracknumber
or the period if it's zero.

Scott

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Subject: [slimp3-dev] Re: More information in server playlists?

I was going to work on the prettyTitle function when I got home
tonight. I'm going to change it to accept a format string to choose
how to construct the pretty title (with the default being as it is
now). If I have enough time I'll also make it configurable on a per
client basis (and stored in the prefs file). The format string will
'%TRACKNUM. %TITLE'
I'm not married to the % as the marker that a keyword is coming next,
I chose it mainly because that is what EAC and LAME use. The
TITLE, ARTIST, TRACKNUM, YEAR, ALBUM, COMMENT, GENRE

It'd be nice to have to option for the server to display artist and
album as well as track title in the playlist and track number.
Especially with classical music, this can be pretty confusing,

since

track names are often things like "allegro".

Agreed.

The easiest thing to do would be just to list all of this

information

for each track. Really, I don't think this would be too bad. The
playlist scrolls anyway, so what if each track uses an extra line?

My old music system (that formed the basis for the web interface

for

<b>1. Drive My Car</b> from <i>Rubber Soul</i> by The Beatles
Which worked out quite nicely and was quite compact.

If we want to get fancy, though, we could try for some kind of
The Beatles
Rubber Soul
1. Drive My Car
....
Help
1. Help
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Alfred Brendel
The Piano Concertos - Disc 1
...
I don't think this would be so hard to do. It does make parsing

the

result of the status command harder, though. Ideally, there

should ba

a variant ot the status command for human readability and one for
remote applications to use, possibly with results in xml.
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[gr0tus]

I was going to work on the prettyTitle function when I got home
tonight. I'm going to change it to accept a format string to choose
how to construct the pretty title (with the default being as it is
now). If I have enough time I'll also make it configurable on a per
client basis (and stored in the prefs file). The format string will
look something like this (this being the current default):

'%TRACKNUM. %TITLE'

I'm not married to the % as the marker that a keyword is coming next,
I chose it mainly because that is what EAC and LAME use. The
keywords will be the same as the MP3::Info uses:

TITLE, ARTIST, TRACKNUM, YEAR, ALBUM, COMMENT, GENRE

It'd be nice to have to option for the server to display artist and
album as well as track title in the playlist and track number.
Especially with classical music, this can be pretty confusing,

since

track names are often things like "allegro".

Agreed.

The easiest thing to do would be just to list all of this

information

for each track. Really, I don't think this would be too bad. The
playlist scrolls anyway, so what if each track uses an extra line?

My old music system (that formed the basis for the web interface

for

<b>1. Drive My Car</b> from <i>Rubber Soul</i> by The Beatles
Which worked out quite nicely and was quite compact.

If we want to get fancy, though, we could try for some kind of
The Beatles
Rubber Soul
1. Drive My Car
....
Help
1. Help
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Alfred Brendel
The Piano Concertos - Disc 1
...
I don't think this would be so hard to do. It does make parsing

the

result of the status command harder, though. Ideally, there

should ba

a variant ot the status command for human readability and one for
remote applications to use, possibly with results in xml.
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[dean blackketter]

It'd be nice to have to option for the server to display artist and
album as well as track title in the playlist and track number.
Especially with classical music, this can be pretty confusing, since
track names are often things like "allegro".

Agreed.

The easiest thing to do would be just to list all of this information
for each track. Really, I don't think this would be too bad. The
playlist scrolls anyway, so what if each track uses an extra line?

My old music system (that formed the basis for the web interface for
SliMP3) displayed tracks like this:

<b>1. Drive My Car</b> from <i>Rubber Soul</i> by The Beatles

Which worked out quite nicely and was quite compact.

The Beatles
Rubber Soul
1. Drive My Car
....
Help
1. Help
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Alfred Brendel
The Piano Concertos - Disc 1
...
I don't think this would be so hard to do. It does make parsing the
result of the status command harder, though. Ideally, there should ba
a variant ot the status command for human readability and one for
remote applications to use, possibly with results in xml.
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[johnruttenberg]

It'd be nice to have to option for the server to display artist and
album as well as track title in the playlist and track number.
Especially with classical music, this can be pretty confusing, since
track names are often things like "allegro".

The easiest thing to do would be just to list all of this information
for each track. Really, I don't think this would be too bad. The
playlist scrolls anyway, so what if each track uses an extra line?

If we want to get fancy, though, we could try for some kind of grouping:

The Beatles
Rubber Soul
1. Drive My Car
....
Help
1. Help
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Alfred Brendel
The Piano Concertos - Disc 1
...

I don't think this would be so hard to do. It does make parsing the
result of the status command harder, though. Ideally, there should ba
a variant ot the status command for human readability and one for
remote applications to use, possibly with results in xml.








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