2016-07-28, 19:07
I've just discovered the filter facility that lives on the side blade of the music library. It has bugs, that I am working on fixing, and leads me to wonder how many people use it or even know it is there? Meanwhile I started thinking that I would personally like some other options on that dialog, so here's the question:
What kind of things do you want to be able to use to immediately filter the lists of artist, albums or songs?
That is of course, in addition to the standard genres > artists > albums > songs navigation provided by the default nodes.
Currently in v16 we have (although not all work or are even visible)
Artists:
FieldArtist - artist name contains
FieldGenre - song genre value(s) from a list
Albums:
FieldAlbum - album title
FieldAlbumArtist - album artist from list
FieldYear - year between values
FieldGenre - song genre value(s) from a list
FieldMusicLabel - publisher label from a list *
FieldRating - rating between values
FieldUserRating - user rating between values
FieldAlbumType - album or single
* as a separate issue I would like to set album label from tag data (TPUB) if present. Currently it can only be populated by NFO.
Songs:
FieldTitle - song tile contains
FieldAlbum - album from list
FieldArtist - song artist from list
FieldTime - duration between range of values
FieldYear - year between values
FieldGenre - song genre value(s) from a list
FieldPlaycount - number of times plays between range of values
FieldRating - rating between values
FieldUserRating - user rating between values
Personally I would not be limited to a list of names for album artist, and have name filtering be exact unless I use wild cards. But more would like to be able to filter by composer, conductor etc. Anything else people would like from the data that Kodi already holds?
Would a dialog more like the smart playlist editor be a good thing or a bad one?
What kind of things do you want to be able to use to immediately filter the lists of artist, albums or songs?
That is of course, in addition to the standard genres > artists > albums > songs navigation provided by the default nodes.
Currently in v16 we have (although not all work or are even visible)
Artists:
FieldArtist - artist name contains
FieldGenre - song genre value(s) from a list
Albums:
FieldAlbum - album title
FieldAlbumArtist - album artist from list
FieldYear - year between values
FieldGenre - song genre value(s) from a list
FieldMusicLabel - publisher label from a list *
FieldRating - rating between values
FieldUserRating - user rating between values
FieldAlbumType - album or single
* as a separate issue I would like to set album label from tag data (TPUB) if present. Currently it can only be populated by NFO.
Songs:
FieldTitle - song tile contains
FieldAlbum - album from list
FieldArtist - song artist from list
FieldTime - duration between range of values
FieldYear - year between values
FieldGenre - song genre value(s) from a list
FieldPlaycount - number of times plays between range of values
FieldRating - rating between values
FieldUserRating - user rating between values
Personally I would not be limited to a list of names for album artist, and have name filtering be exact unless I use wild cards. But more would like to be able to filter by composer, conductor etc. Anything else people would like from the data that Kodi already holds?
Would a dialog more like the smart playlist editor be a good thing or a bad one?