janui wrote:Hi HJLK,
The latest version of MPD will be included in 0.6b.
janui
Hi janui,
Might we be so lucky that version 0.6b will also include browse by composer that does not list tracks but albums, so that all classical music freaks can get on the Runeaudio train? (I am currently running 0.5b+rern but his addon garbled the reboot/poweroff functionality as well as albums under classical genre, so I would like to get by without his addons, because I don't need all the things he is integrating anyway.)
One implementation that would suit me would be a Composer button that leads to a list of all composers and clicking a composer will lead to a list of albums for said composer. I tried during a weekend to implement this myself (6 months ago, there are a few questions in a thread somewhere here on the forum) basically by copying the artist functionality in the relevant .js to a new composer button and then substituting composer as the tag to use. I managed to get the albums for each composer to display, but when I clicked the album there would be an MPD-error that I never managed to solve.
Obviously people will have tagged their classical music collections differently, so no implementation would fit all, so if Composer->Album appears sub-optimal to you maybe we could organize a vote on the forum for what implementation to chose? Or make a skeleton structure where end-users have to edit some lines in order to get their favourite traversal of their collections.
Actually this makes me think of another possibility: would it be doable to include a custom browsing implementation that is variable-based rather than based on hard-coded tags? Then end-users would just edit variables X and Y in a file or in the GUI (which in my case would be x=composer and y=album, but someone else might enter x=conductor y=album). Image if there were variable-based browsing set up, one button for two levels, and one button for three levels, and then people would be able to tweak these and/or duplicate them at will! composer+album, conductor+album, composer+performer+album, style(baroque,renaissance)+composer+album.... the possibilities would be endless and Runeaudio would finally "rune them all".
If duplicating a skeleton end-users would be required to maintain variable separation X1/Y1 and X2/Y2 to keep the routines separate, but I think classical music lovers would gladly do the search-replace needed in the source files.
Anyway, even if nothing of the above sees daylight, I want to thank you for the great work you're already doing!