selecting 'Hide Contents' may crash MinimServer

[simoncn]

(16-08-2012 15:31)mikejazz Wrote:  

(14-08-2012 12:32)simoncn Wrote:  I don't usually sit down and think "I want to play X". Normally I think "how about something from this composer and/or this artist, let's have a look at some options and choose one".

I also usually start to browse and direct myself to a Genre, then I like the system to help me choose.

I have a question regarding this.
Let's say I "want to play some Patricia Barber". So I navigate Genre "Jazz" > Artist "Patricia Barber". Here I find currently 5 containers:
- albuns
- items
- composer
- date
- style
OK, let's say I decide to narrow by composer. I find "Cole Porter" and find 11 items from 2 albuns of Patricia.

What if I now would like to use this Tag of Composer = Cole Porter, and wide open the selection to find all items where Cole Porter is the composer.

This is a nice feature of JRemote.

Do you also feel that this "drill-across" could be useful? Would it be complex to implement?
I see it as something similar to "Complete Album", but widening to all the database instead of only using the Album container.

This would be even more used in Classical; we might be interested to focus a search on a conductor, say "Haitink", drill down to "Bruckner", and from here, drill-across to discover all Bruckner in our library...

This was part of my initial vision for MinimServer, and I would really like to be able to do this when I'm browsing my collection.

Unfortunately, the UPnP protocol makes it practically impossible to do this on the server side, because each of these "drill-across" links would need to be represented as a further step down in the hierarchical tree of containers. However, it would be possible to implement something like this in the control point.