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[bobertuk]

Yes, the final program will work on Macs as well..

The first version(s) will make a copy of your database (for more than one reason), so if the file library.db is visible from any device (windows, linux, OSX) attached to the NAS, of if you can download a copy of the database, it should work - well, albumart won't, as I would need file access to that as well.

Hmm.. maybe I should work out a path substitution of sorts for all the folks running Squeezebox server on a NAS..

I'm interested to find out, if there could be made som sort of one-fits-all solution - also for users of older versions of Squeezebox/Slimserver (running mySQL).

I wondered about scraping the squeezebox webservice, but I think it will be too hard - and far too easily broken after updating SBS and so...


Thanks for feedback

Wonderful

Having artwork available would be nice as well.

Bob

[HeadBanger]

@ DK_Dennis. Good stuff this is somesting I'd definitely use. Please keep us all posted on your progress!

[DK_Dennis]

Just this morning, I've found another way of doing things; a way, where it will work on any platform - and on all versions of squeezeboxserver - also when it's running on a NAS.

This new approach will also make some other things possible, that I've been wanting to do for a while. More on this later...

So it's kind of back to square one, though I can probably re-use a lot of GUI programming.

[DK_Dennis]

The project is still chucking along, though I've had a few setbacks.

Among them:
- I've had to change to another GUI toolkit completely. (Square one again!) Some things were simply not possible (- at least with my still rather limited set of skills).
- an internal modelling structure in the new GUI toolkit was obviously far too slow. I've created a new model that performs a lot better
- I've, just now, encountered what seems to be a bug in the LMS server's JSON interface. I can work around this to some extent, so tracks and albums can be catalogged as expected, but sorting tracks is still quite troublesome. (Bugreport filed on http://bugs.slimdevices.com)

Also, I've added options for catalogging a connected player's playlist, as well as saved playlists.

I'm still contemplating a plethora of design ideas for the output (and so also learning a lot more HTML/CSS).
It's still not too late, if anyone should have a design idea or two for the output - feel free to contact me.

And now - on with the coding...

[maximus]

Any news?

[DK_Dennis]

No "real" news, I'm afraid.

Mostly due to improved coding skills (I'm learning lots about a plethora of issues/challenges), I need to change some things, in order for it to be more readily maintainable. This goes for both the internal workings, as well as some output routines.

In effect, this is another total overhaul of the code, which has recently been postponed, due to "real life" issues like paying customers, family stuff and so...

At the moment, I can produce CSV files and a single HTML "look".
I would, however, like to implement a "standards" HTML output, where the user is able to choose among various templates, or simply extend the output with their own CSS template.

I've also found a way to directly produce MS Excel files, and am contemplating whether to include this as a function or not (the idea isn't bad, it's just that the final program will be cross-platform, not only running on Windows).

I'm also still struggling a bit with some internal functions, like letting user right-click on a tree item, and catalog from there, etc..


So, no real news, at the moment, but the project isn't dead.

[jmschnur]

Very interested in this. Glad you are still working on it.


J

[docPhil]

I posted a few weeks ago onto a different thread. I'm only producing an rtf document at the moment of my albums+songs but Word can open this. Instead of talking directly to the database, I got the album list from the server using JSON. This way it's safer, and I can run it on a different machine to the server. It runs on windows or a mac using mono. (I assume it would also work on linux with mono).


http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...l=1#post705750