Hi, I'm developing a new plugin and have got it to the stage where 'it works for me'. If anyone's interested I'm looking for someone that can help bring it to production standard. It should have a sourceforge project soon . . .
WHAT'S IT DO? It is a screensaver that runs while your music is playing. It remaps numeric keys (0-9) to actions that change the genre of the playing track. WHY IS IT USEFUL? I wanted this because I (ab)use the genre system to encode my rating preferences. I have a genre for 'Good' and 'Great'. This allows me to listen to a mix (with random mix) and if a great track comes up I can just hit a button and record that fact. Over time I now have the ability to play 'Great' tracks in a random mix. HOW DOES IT WORK Currently the approach has been: 1) when the button is pressed record the action in a SQLLite database (no changes occur on slimserver.db) 2) periodically (overnight) slimserver is shutdown and all the entries in the new db are read, and the music file (FLAC or MP3) tags are updated. Ie all information is preserved in the music file so it is completely independent of the slimserver.db. You can (and I do) delete the slimserver.db and all the assignments are preserved. 3) slimserver is restarted and rescanned. ADDITIONAL TOOLS I have a very rough web based tagger that lets you browse a music directory tree and add/delete genres and reset track details etc. It works well, but it's not pretty. STATE OF DEVELOPMENT It works reliably and consistently for me, but I would need to give a reasonable amount of help to get even another developer to install it. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I tweak a little and share it, and it sits in a backwater, OR some other developers take a look and get interested and we make it 'production quality' Reply to this mail if: a) you're a user and want the functionality b) you're a developer and could help develop the functionality. As for me I'm happy the way it is so if I get no responses I don't mind. Cheers All Malcolm PS A very great thank you for Random Mix - for me it's a perfect way to listen and my plugin would be meaningless without it. -- mwphoto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mwphoto's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=652 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18832 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
