Improving My Menu System In Kazoo

[DavidHB]

(29-04-2020 15:41)simoncn Wrote:  This is a good suggestion if you have Genre tagged consistently.

Stefano's tagUpdate.txt file looks a little complex for gnomus' stated need. Assuming that all Classical tracks have a Genre tag with the value "Classical", one could have a simple tagUpdate.txt file which reads

@GENRE=Classical
+CLASSICALGENRE=Classical

Enter the location of the tagUpdate.txt file in the tagUpdate property. (For instance, I put my tagUpdate.txt directly in my content directory, which on my QNAP NASs is /share/Multimedia/Music, so the value of my tagUpdate property is "/share/Multimedia/Music/tagUpdate.txt".) Then change the indexTags property so that the Genre entry is at the beginning, and reads:

ClassicalGenre=Classical:Classical library, Genre,

and restart MinimServer. This puts an entry of "Classical Library" at the top of the MinimServer top level menu (immediately below "n Albums", "n Items" and "n Playlists"), with Genre immediately below it. Selecting "Classical Library" does what the label suggests: it gives you a menu applicable to the Classical genre only.

One could obviously expand this arrangement to include menu entries for other Genres, but I have relatively few non-classical albums, and am happy to select them by Genre. The arrangement works in MinimServer 0.8 and MinimServer 2.

It could be argued that the arrangement only serves to cut out a step in the browsing process. In practice, I find that it is an easy and satisfying way to filter the range of available selections to those I mostly want to use.

David