Browse By Art 4.9 [MM2]

[durden999uk]

Hey trixmoto, thanks for another update for this great script. Could you tell a novice what I need to add in order to secondary sort the albums by year?

Many thanks,
Ben

[Nebbin]

Thanks so much for the secondary sorting, Trixmoto! It's made it a lot easier to navigate that screen.

Though - I too would welcome this sorting to be extended to the artist sub-nodes, since they're pretty much the only nodes I use (Also, sorting by year would be highly appreciated.)

[trixmoto]

I would love to be able to think of a way to apply it to all nodes, but this would mean having a LOT of extra options. Maybe I'll have to create another options screen to allow you to add lots of different SQL strings.

You cannot currently sort by Year because year is stored in the Songs table and only the Artists and Albums tables are selected from in these queries. Fully adding this second sort order is simply too complicated and should I ever manage to work out the SQL (very unlikely) and manage to build it up in this script (highly unlikely) then it will make the script MUCH slower than it currently is. Still want it?

[Dieter]

I don't think supplying the second sort order to ALL nodes is necessary. For example, the album node does not really need a second sort order since usually there do not exist many albums having the same name. Only for a first order criterion which produces a plurality of album groups having the same first order specification a second order sort is necessary.

For me personally, only the browse by artist node does need a second sort order (by album) since there are always a plurality of artists which have in each case a group of albums (which should be sorted by name within the artist). So in my (subjective) opinion it would be sufficient to have an additional second sort criterion for the artist node. For me this could even be the same sql statement as it has been inputted for the browse album art node (if this would simplify things).

Dieter

[arcspin]

This script i awsome !!!

Here´s one more suggestion for you to consider:
Make an action pop-up when I click on an album.

The pop-up (or what you call it) will have some options for me to chooce from.
For example when I click on an album I will get the option to:
1. View albumart
2. Clear and play
3. Play last
4. Play now
or...see the songs from the selected album (wouldn't that be great), like an playlist previewer.

This is basiclly the same options I get in the Options dropdown menu.
But I can chooce what to do everytime I click on an album.


Thanks again for this script

//P

[Nebbin]

Fully adding this second sort order is simply too complicated and should I ever manage to work out the SQL (very unlikely) and manage to build it up in this script (highly unlikely) then it will make the script MUCH slower than it currently is. Still want it?

hmmm... can I think about it? ...


lol, ok that would be a no

[trixmoto]

@arcspin - nice idea, I've added this to my to do list!

@Nebbin - this is something that I've still got in my mind so hopefully one day I'll come up with a solution. Or of course, MM will start doing this natively and this script will become obselete!

[Dieter]

Do you consider my last post or is that also to complicated to realize?

Dieter

[trixmoto]

I will look into this for the next version, but I can't promise anything.

[Dieter]

Thanks a lot
Dieter

[Dodo]

@arcspin: funny thing, coz I just finished modding my BrowseByArt (v4.6) to obtain a context menu when right clicking. The linked .rar works fine for me, using MSIE7. Keep the folder structure when extracting it. Also modified it a bit, to go w/ the Brushed Steel skin (change background color in BBA options to #efefef).
BrowseByArt-4.6.1

@trixmoto: hope it's ok that I modded your tubular script!

Maybe I'll look into the newer version, if I get around.
Dodo

[Nebbin]

Or of course, MM will start doing this natively and this script will become obselete!

Yeah, I admit I've wondered about that too - that you'll put all this work in only to find MM3 will do it natively. Hopefully the developers could give you a quick "heads up" msg if such was the case. Regardless, I'm sure everyone here appreciates the time and effort you've placed into this script.

[arcspin]

I just wanted to say that BBA is one heck of an script to MM.

I just made an image border and that made the album art look much better. Try it!
In the Option menu/BrowsebyArt setting/Appearance.. there's a Image option, select a color ex "#efefef" and image border "6"

Voila, a nice looking album art frame.

One thing I do not get to work is the View Album.
In the Option menu/BrowsebyArt setting/Click Action:..
You can select view album.

But I can't get it to show any album when I click on my albums in album art ??
Nothing happens when I have this option selected...


Any ideas ?


Thx for all your hard work making this script happend

//P

[trixmoto]

@arcspin - I do already have more context menus on my to do list, and I'll look at adding this. I'll also take a look at the "View Album" action not working for you - this should browse to the node for that album. Is this the case for all albums, or is there one in particular that doesn't work? Do you have the "Album" node visible within the "Library" node?

@dodo - I do not mind you modifying my script. I will take a look at your code and see how much I can include in the official release, if that's ok?

[Dodo]

I will take a look at your code and see how much I can include in the official release, if that's ok?

sure, go ahead. what i started out with is cleaning up the html code, and using css for the layout - this lead to a resulting .html w/ a much smaller file size and should speed up the generation of the album art view. i was thinking about doing a parameterized external stylesheet, so that layout and structure are further separated and thus customization would be still easier...