ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

[adhawkins]

> Should this be configurable by the way? Or is excluding remote artists a
> sensible setting for the plugin?

As your plugin relies on the local file system and NOT on metadata I'd
say it's reasonable to not include remote content.

[adhawkins]

ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce the availability of the first version of the Simple Library Views plugin. This plugin allows you to easily define library views, simply by entering a list of views to create, and then creating appropriate files in album directories to add albums to a view.

Full details of the plugin are available here:

http://adhawkins.github.io/SimpleLibraryViews/

Thanks to mherger and kidstypike for their assistance in the development of this plugin.

This is my first ever LMS plugin, so I'd appreciate any feedback you can give. Please use this thread for any questions or comments.

EDIT: If you used the original version of this plugin (EasyVirtualLibraries) then please remove all references to this previous version before installing this one.

Thanks

Andy

[kidstypike]

Andy

I uninstalled your original plugin, removed your old repo and old files from album folders, and deleted the old library views.

Added your new repo and installed Simple Library Views, and ... everything seems to work as expected.

Good work.

kidstypike

[adhawkins]

I've just release v0.99.1 of this plugin. The only real difference is that the file can now be called either:

simple-library-views-libname

or

.simple-library-views-libname

This means that the library view files can now be 'hidden' when used on a Linux OS.

Andy

[adhawkins]

I've just released v0.99.2.

Release notes below:

v0.99.2
-------

* Plugin now licensed under the GPL
* Correctly register and unregister library views when changes are made in settings
* Only actually build library views from scanner process, trigger a scan when appropriate
* Performance enhancements in library view building (thanks to Michael Herger)

Andy

[kidstypike]

I've just released v0.99.2.

Release notes below:

v0.99.2
-------

* Plugin now licensed under the GPL
* Correctly register and unregister library views when changes are made in settings
* Only actually build library views from scanner process, trigger a scan when appropriate
* Performance enhancements in library view building (thanks to Michael Herger)

Andy

Wow! that's speeded up the "Create library views" some, was >3:00 mins, now 19 secs.

Thanks

[mherger]

ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

> Wow! that's speeded up the "Create library views" some, was >3:00 mins,
> now 19 secs.

Nice! Interesting ratio, as this pretty much reflects the improvement
I've seen on my SSD based system - though at a different level :-)

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Michael

[adhawkins]

Thanks for the confirmation @kidstypike, @mherger had provided me with some hints as to how to speed things up, but while I was in the middle of implementing them he submitted a pull request with them all done! Still, I learned a bit more about Perl database in the process, so no bad thing!

I've got a sneaky feeling there's still a bug that exists the very first time the plugin is installed and a library view is configured. I see some warning about using undefined variables in a comparison, and I'm not 100% sure the comparison 'works' as a result. I'll investigate that today.

Andy

[adhawkins]

Anyone finding this plugin useful?

I think I've resolved the issue with uninitialized values, but not sure it was actually causing a problem.

Unless anyone has any problems, I'll release a v1.0 of this and consider any potential future developments.

Andy

[srasher]

Anyone finding this plugin useful?

I think I've resolved the issue with uninitialized values, but not sure it was actually causing a problem.

Unless anyone has any problems, I'll release a v1.0 of this and consider any potential future developments.

Andy

Yes, Andy, I'm still playing around with library views a lot and found this a very nice addition to the ways they can be dealt with! Please carry on with the maintenance/development in case you have any new ideas ;-)

Cheers,
Seb

[drmatt]

I will find out useful when I get around to implementing it. Fed up with just genre tags, this is much more scriptable.

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[adhawkins]

Thanks both for the response. If it's useful to more than just me, then I'll try to get a v1.0 release out in the next few days.

I have some ideas for making it more useful, primarily around the configuration of library views. I'd like to be able to specify library views that are combinations of others.

e.g. For the music I use in a random mix at work:

andy and not audiobooks

If anyone has any other suggestions for improvements, then I think the best way is to log them as change requests at GitHub:

https://github.com/adhawkins/SimpleLibraryViews/issues

I'll start adding a few of my own ideas there, look forward to hearing any others.

Andy

[adhawkins]

I've just release v1.0.0. Not much changed, but I'd consider this 'stable' now.

v1.0.0
------

* Correctly initialise preferences on new install

Please let me know if you have any issues or suggestions. Best bet is via GitHub:

https://github.com/adhawkins/SimpleLibraryViews/issues

Andy

[mherger]

ANNOUNCE: Simple Library Views plugin

> I've just release v1.0.0. Not much changed, but I'd consider this
> 'stable' now.

I've added your plugin to the main repository. Thanks!

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Michael

[adhawkins]

I've added your plugin to the main repository. Thanks!

What does that mean exactly? People won't have to add my own repo.xml?

Should I continue to maintain repo.xml?

Andy