RE: Re: v6.0 question

[Craig, James (IT)]

Cool.
I looked at the skins to edit a copy of the default and it did occur to
me that this might be intentional.
In the context of a playlist it means you can jump to the artist/album
pages directly. Doesn't look very nice though...

What would be nice would be if the functionality that generates the
user-defined format also put in web links as well.
(although it might be tricky as the 'track' link would be different
depending on if you're in the playlist or the browser: play track as
opposed to jump to position in playlist)

James

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Sent: 09 February 2005 10:36
To: Slim Devices Developers
Subject: RE: [Developers] Re: v6.0 question

Quoting "Craig, James (IT)" <James.Craig (AT) morganstanley (DOT) com>:

> KDF,
> I have mine set to TITLE - ARTIST - ALBUM everywhere.
> In 5.4 Fishbone left hand side, when viewing a playlist I see this:
>
> Browse Playlists / Library
>
> Hush Hush Tip - N-Tyce feat. Method Man - by N-Tyce feat. Method Man
> Substance - Dot Allison by Dot Allison
> Tell Her Tonight (Paul Sings) - Franz Ferdinand - Michael CD2 by
Franz
> Ferdinand from Michael CD2
> Temptation - Kid 606 - by Kid 606
>
> If I 'browse albums' and drill down to a specific track it is
displayed
> correctly.
> In fact I notice this is the same for the default skin - so really it
is
> just the display of tracks within a playlist that troubles me!

Thanks. I've checked in a quick fix to the Fishbone skin in 5.4.1 that
should
make that work better for you. If not, let me know. If you dont have
svn
access, it might be too late for this to hit the Feb 09 build, so look
for it
in Feb 10.

-kdf

[kdf]

Quoting "Craig, James (IT)" <James.Craig (AT) morganstanley (DOT) com>:

> Cool.
> I looked at the skins to edit a copy of the default and it did occur to
> me that this might be intentional.
> In the context of a playlist it means you can jump to the artist/album
> pages directly. Doesn't look very nice though...

That's why the server supports skins. You can change all of this to your own
sense of style.

>
> What would be nice would be if the functionality that generates the
> user-defined format also put in web links as well.

that would mean venturing into the infoformat regex. definitely not for anyone
who wishes to hold on to any remnants of sanity. :)

> (although it might be tricky as the 'track' link would be different
> depending on if you're in the playlist or the browser: play track as
> opposed to jump to position in playlist)

I belive this has been brought up a few times. Like most things, its simply
waiting for someone to come along who is inspired to have a go at it.

-kdf
>

[Robert Moser]

kdf wrote:
> Quoting "Craig, James (IT)" <James.Craig (AT) morganstanley (DOT) com>:
>>Cool.
>>I looked at the skins to edit a copy of the default and it did occur to
>>me that this might be intentional.
>>In the context of a playlist it means you can jump to the artist/album
>>pages directly. Doesn't look very nice though...
> That's why the server supports skins. You can change all of this to your own
> sense of style.
>>What would be nice would be if the functionality that generates the
>>user-defined format also put in web links as well.
> that would mean venturing into the infoformat regex. definitely not for anyone
> who wishes to hold on to any remnants of sanity. :)

I wrote that regex and can confidently say that adding links there would
be a nightmare. My suggestion is to edit the skins, replacing the [%
FROM | string %] and [% BY | string %] with the dash, if that is what
you want to see, and you want to have the link functionality.