Separating different types of MP3s by views (1 Viewer)

[the_rat]

Hallo all,

I want to separate the Charts MP3s from the album MP3s under
using the music views.

Problem:
When I actually go to the MP view Artist/Album I see all the MP3s of the "Charts One Hit Wonders" in separate Folders mixed with the "real" albums of the Artists.
This makes the handling of the view too difficult, because you have to scroll, scroll, scroll, .... to find something (we talk here about 1000 albums, 3000 chart hits, in sum about 15000 MP3s). The artists are already grouped by first characters, but for the character "S" for example there are round about 200 subfolders -> Happy scrolling !!

So my Idea was to get different views for the charts and different views for the "real" albums. In the chart views I want to see only the chart hits and the other way round.

I tried a solution in following way:

I tagged the chart MP3s in the field "album" with "Charts".
Then I created a new view "Charts" with a like paramerter "album like Charts%".
But this doesn't work. The "like" parameter seems not to work with the field "album". Only the fields "group" and "artist" can be combined with "like".

So this way doesn't work.

Question to the Development Team:

Would it be difficult to implement the "like" operator for the field "album" ?
Also it would be helpful to implement a "not like" operator ?
With this two changes my problem would be easy to solve.

Or has anyone an idea how my problem can be solved on other ways?

best regards
the rat.

 

[hwahrmann]

The "like" operator is working on albums as well.
However due to a recent change a wrong sql statement was built causing the request to fail.

I've corrected it and also added the "NOT LIKE" operator.
Grab the next nightly build and have fun.

 

[the_rat]

Hallo again,

thanks for your very quick support (you are a great development team).

But there a some new problems in the latest snv.

When I switch from one view to another, Mediaportal is hanging up.
I cannot explain why it happend I'm still using the original music views.
With a small number of MP3s the views can be switched, but when
I import all my MP3s to the database (roundabout 15000),
switching is not longer possible. I have waited for 30 Minutes !! Nothing happened.

When I go back to Version 0.2.2.0 everything works fine.
Switching between two views takes roundabout 3 seconds (with all 15000 MP3s).
So I think it is no hardware problem (AMD 4200+ Dual Core).

Any idea ??

In another thread a user is asking for a possibility to filter MP3s without showing it.
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/views_creating_filter_without_displaying-t23143.html

Thats the same thing I need for separating my Charts MP3s from the Albums MP3s.
As I told in my original request, I want to create two views.
For the view "Charts" the "like" operator ("album like charts%") can be used in the first subview. So in all following subviews only the right part of MP3s are shown.

But for the view "Interpret/Album" the "not like" operator ("album not like charts%") can only be set on the third subview (first subview is "Artist group by 1", second subview is "Arstist").

So my problem ist still the same. Only if I reach the third subview the filter begins to work. So when I go to Artist "S" I see all my 200 Artists in subfolder and when I enter some of them they are empty. That's not very helpful, because I still have to scroll through 200 subfolders.

So here the same question as in the other thread.

Is it possible to create a "general filter" for the views on header level for example ?

best regards
the rat.

 

[hwahrmann]

for the performance problem you should post a log.
i ahve more than 20k of songs in my database and don't encounter such a problem.

Well currently, it is not possible to filter without showing it.
when i have time, i'll have a look into it, but don't know when.