Add items to My Music "More" menu?

[cncb]

Is it possible to add and edit items in the "More" menu when browsing the My Music library items? What I had in mind is to add a "Play shuffled" item which would explicitly turn shuffle on before playback and likewise modify the existing "Play" to turn shuffle off before playback. If this is possible could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks.

[pippin]

Finally somebody who likes that feature (so many used to complain about it in iPeng, although, mysteriously, no longer recently)

I'd have a look at e.g. the PlaylistManager Plugin which does add a menu item to the top of the context menu.

I'm not sure about the default behavior, though, that might require a server patch.

[mherger]

> Is it possible to add and edit items in the "More" menu when browsing
> the My Music library items?

Yes: check out the various implementations of the TrackInfo menu handler.
Eg. in Slim/Plugin/RadioTime/Plugin.pm

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Michael

[cncb]

Thanks to both of you - I'll take a look. By the way, are the basic (built-in) functions available to plugins defined or documented somewhere? For example, what function do I call to turn shuffle on? Can I call the pre-defined function used when "Play" is selected from the More menu from my plugin?

[cparker]

Thanks to both of you - I'll take a look. By the way, are the basic (built-in) functions available to plugins defined or documented somewhere? For example, what function do I call to turn shuffle on? Can I call the pre-defined function used when "Play" is selected from the More menu from my plugin?

To turn Shuffle off;

$client->execute( [ "playlist", "shuffle", 0 ] );

Change that to 1 or 2 depending on what shuffle mode you want.

[cncb]

To turn Shuffle off;

$client->execute( [ "playlist", "shuffle", 0 ] );

Change that to 1 or 2 depending on what shuffle mode you want.

Thanks for that. It appears that is calling the "CLI" which I see the documentation for.

I am still in the dark about how to exactly add items to menus, what properties the items need, how selection is handled, all the menus that exist, etc. Is the "Slim::Menu" class (I don't know exactly what it is called in PERL) documented somewhere or do we just have to guess?

[cncb]

I have this working for everything but the more menu shown for a "Favorites" item. Is there an equivalent "Info" menu class for Favorites that I can add to? Thanks.