Global Music Search v2.0.0 [2014-02-19] (2 Viewers)

[Mr. V]

Is it possible that the song, duration, genre act tags can be used on the main screen?

Last time i tried to implement this in the search xml they worked, but the values would not update when i scrolled to a different song.

 

[Dadeo]

I know ysmp - and that made sense when Now Playing was not fully supported, but now that it is, it COULD be consistent with music. I am willing to admit it is a 'feature' request due to the evolution of this plugin.

 

[mysteryboard]

Global Music Search (version 1.7.5) - Problem with sorting

Hello,

many thanks for Global music search. But I have found a problem with sorting. When I search for an album, f. e. Back in Black, and I add the album to the playlist, the album isn't sorted by titlenumber. I haven't the possibility to sort the titles in the playlist.
Is it possible to change this?

Greetings

 

[IchBinsShort]

AW: New Plugin: Global Music Search (version 1.7.0)

I have a found a little bug, for the first Song in the Playlist the Contextmenu don't work. It works only after the second song.

 

[pedu]

First of all - i love this plugin. Not sure if it's being actively developed anymore, but I discovered a bug when two or more artists have released an album of the same name, like

Artist: Real Life
Album: Heartland

Artist: Sko & Torp
Album: Heartland

The albums of course are completely different apart from sharing the album title. If I search for SomeTrackName which is included on the second album above the plugin finds the correct track and dispalys the result. Now if I select Enter on the track and choose to add the complete album to the playlist, the plugin adds the wrong album - in this case the album by Real Life, not the album by Sko & Torp. Hope this can be easily fixed?

Cheers,
Peter

Just took a look at the source and I think it's obvious why the wrong album is added to the playlist

ArrayList _album = new ArrayList();
String sAlbum = song.Album;
MusicDatabase _mdb = MusicDatabase.Instance;
bool _songsFound = _mdb.GetSongsByAlbum(sAlbum, ref _album);

The method call _mdb.GetSongsByAlbum(sAlbum, ref _album) takes a string parameter and natutally returns the songs from the first found album with sAlbum name. For this to work it should take an albumId in the form of an integer to return the correct result, something like

ArrayList _album = new ArrayList();
integer AlbumId = song.AlbumId;
MusicDatabase _mdb = MusicDatabase.Instance;
bool _songsFound = _mdb.GetSongsByAlbumId(AlbumId, ref _album);

Since I don't know the MediaPortal API I don't know if this is even possible?

 

[ltfearme]

Thanks pedu, sounds like your right. What would make sense is a overloaded method that takes a unique id (doesnt look like there is one).

I changed it to use an alternative method GetSongsByAlbumArtistAlbum which takes both artist and album as parameters. Thats the best I can find in the API.

Anyway, see if this test dll does the trick

 

[ltfearme]

Re: Global Music Search (version 1.7.5) - Problem with sorting

many thanks for Global music search. But I have found a problem with sorting. When I search for an album, f. e. Back in Black, and I add the album to the playlist, the album isn't sorted by titlenumber. I haven't the possibility to sort the titles in the playlist.

mysteryboard, can you test the dll above...I haven't changed anything to do with sorting but the new method might already do this (atleast from my test it seems sorted by tracks). Anyway I want to know if it works for you so I dont need to explicitly sort by track.

 

[pedu]

Thanks pedu, sounds like your right. What would make sense is a overloaded method that takes a unique id (doesnt look like there is one).

I changed it to use an alternative method GetSongsByAlbumArtistAlbum which takes both artist and album as parameters. Thats the best I can find in the API.

Anyway, see if this test dll does the trick

Thanks mate
I'll check it tonight after work and post my findings in this thread. However it would make sense to assume that GetSongsByAlbumArtistAlbum() would actually do the trick

 

[pedu]

Hi Damien
The use of GetSongsByAlbumArtistAlbum() solved my problem - the correct album is added now - Thx alot mate

BTW The problem regarding the sort order when adding an album to the playlist seems to be solved as well. At least tracks are added in the expected order- I guess that if tracknumber is missing from ID3 tag or the files are named in a way that doesn't make them sort correctly alphabetical they might be added in random order? Unfortunately I don't know how GetSongsByAlbumArtistAlbum() work/sort internally, so this is just a gues. All my files have track numbers in ID3 tags and are named in a way that make the sort correctly in alphabetically ascending order.

Thanks alot for you help in sorting out this issue

 

[ltfearme]

Yeah, I guess the issue is to do with missing tags in ID3 for track numbers or something to do with old method being used (perhaps it did not return a sorted array).