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tagFormat - some suggestions - Oliviander - 24-04-2013 18:26
Hi Simon,
with all the new 0.71 features MinS evolved to my favourite
Computer Game <g>
Especially the tagFormat section gives many options
to fit MinS to my liking.
MY experiences by now:
In some cases when you use a tag for Tagformating
and you have maaany entries in for this Tag
the result of the Tagformating might be toooo long.
So an option to limit the use of a tag to a fixed number of entries
might often be useful.
Only of cosmetic interest would be the option to show up
a specified text when there are more entries than used.
Example:
If you have 4 Soloists
Soloist_A
Soloist_B
Soloist_C
Soloist_D
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists^[^]^/)
results in the following artist display
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C/Soloist_D]
An option
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists^[^]^/^3)
resulting only in
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C]
even when there are more than 3 entries to the soloists tag,
would be imho often be useful.
The cosmetic part would be a 5th option:
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists^[^]^/^3^etc.)
resulting in
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C]
when there are only 3 soloists
or in
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C/etc.]
when there are 4 or more soloists
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And now for something completely different:
using
Discsubtitle.displayFormat
doesn't lead to an error but doesn't have any effect either.
I don't really need that, but I wondered if it should work ?
RE: tagFormat - some suggestions - simoncn - 26-04-2013 16:40
(24-04-2013 18:26)Oliviander Wrote: An option
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists^[^]^/^3)
resulting only in
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C]
even when there are more than 3 entries to the soloists tag,
would be imho often be useful.
The cosmetic part would be a 5th option:
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists^[^]^/^3^etc.)
resulting in
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C]
when there are only 3 soloists
or in
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C/etc.]
when there are 4 or more soloists
I think this would be a useful enhancement. I'd prefer a slightly different syntax:
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists[3]^[^]^/}
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists[3]/etc.^[^]^/}
Note that there is a '/' before 'etc.'. This allows for specifying:
artist.displayFormat={$Soloists[3]...^[^]^/}
to produce:
[Soloist_A/Soloist_B/Soloist_C...]
Quote:And now for something completely different:
using
Discsubtitle.displayFormat
doesn't lead to an error but doesn't have any effect either.
I don't really need that, but I wondered if it should work ?
The DISCSUBTITLE tag isn't sent to the control point in DIDL-Lite, and it doesn't appear as an index choice, so it isn't valid for either displayFormat or indexFormat. The next release will check for this and disallow it.