MDE wrote:
> LMS sync still working, so here are some comments on the beta version. I
> think it is a great improvement for classical music lovers. Personally,
> I like the hierarchical view, it does take up a lot less space than the
> "panel" type of view and the "+" signs for expansion are reasonably
> intuitive. It does limit you to 2 levels - whether this is an issue or
> not will become apparent after a bit more usage (personally I would be
> inclined to go for 3 levels). At present I use Custom Browse with
> dynamic menus which effectively allows infinite levels, but I think that
> this approach is overly complex. However, I am having some data/indexing
> problems. For example, I have a 3 CD box set of 5 Beethoven Piano
> Concertos by Alfred Brendel. The tags for this are as follows: Each
> track has the opus and movement information. The album has the Composer
> and opus information, e.g. "Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op.
> 15" (this is for display purposes on squeezebox touch). There are custom
> tags for Opus, CDName (e.g."Beethoven:The 5 Piano Concertos [Brendel &
> Rattle], Disc 1"), and Instrument ("Piano"). The genre is "Concerto",
> which is listed in "options" as a classical genre. The custom tags are
> also declared in "options". The tracks are stored in folders (one for
> each CD) along with the cover art. Using the EditID from dbpoweramp
> verifies that all the tags are consistent for every track and that the
> cover art is linked to all the tracks. Using custom browse, I can drill
> down by composer, genre, opus, instrument etc and consistently get to
> any of the concertos, complete with cover art. Foobar works similarly
> well (with the "panel"-style drill-down). In Muso 1.5, however, if I
> select "composer" under the hierarchy and click on the "Beethoven" node,
> I can see all 5 concertos shown as albums, but No.s 1-4 (Discs 1 & 2)
> have no artwork, whereas No. 5 does have artwork. If I then drill down
> by, say genre or instrument or Opus, then only No.5 appears - No.s 1-4
> are not listed. If I select No.5, then the others are shown under "more
> by this artist". If I go to "edit tracks" then no data inconsistencies
> are apparent, so it would seem to be something to do with how the
> hierarchies are being indexed. It seems to make no difference whether I
> sync with LMS or import the folders directly. Hope that is reasonably
> clear, but happy to explain further or run more tests.
Thanks will look into that after the holidays, but just to note you
aren't restricted to just two levels. It's a bit clunky in this beta
version but you have to RIGHT-click on the first level (i.e left-click
on Hierarchical then right-click on the first level, eg. Composer) to
open up a menu to fix the second level, right-click again on the second
level to set a third, etc. Early January I'll release the panels
mechanism rather than the tree which will I think be more intutuive.
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