Music Database - Wow!!

[ClearSong]

Wow!!! Incredible!! Fantabulous!! Outstanding!!! ...the new Jonathan Marshall overseen........hmmmn..... "marshalled" music data base with the Smart Playlist GUI interface is absolutely awesome!!

I updated from a March version and I am enthralled with the new functionality. I added a network storage device that I got for Father's Day/Birthday...and now I'll be able to greatly expand on my 900 CD FLAC music collection with a 500 GB NAS!! http://xbmc.org/forum/images/smilies2/laugh8kb.gif
:laugh:

I use XBMC solely as a digital music server and the last couple of months have seen some incredibly powerful enhancements.

Smart Playlist capability from the interface.

Search capability expanded dynamically....shortening search time!

Saving the last search! Great thought!

Much easier building playlists on the fly!!

I did have some work refarkeling my Compilation CDs.....over 40 of them did not have Various Artists in the AlbumArtist field...each song for these CDs was showing as a separate CD until retagged appropriately.

And, I thought I saw some spurious behavior for some classical CDs with various database sensitive characters in the title - commas, dashes, periods, quotation marks. etc.

Seemed like these tracks were confused...I got rid of them (the symbols that is....not the CDs!) and now all is good.

My question - are there database sensitive punctuation or symbols that one should be leery about introducing into the music database?

Clearsong



My question.....

[WeirdH]

My question - are there database sensitive punctuation or symbols that one should be leery about introducing into the music database?

Well, that depends on your skin, and what font it uses. For example, PM3 doesn't display 'õ' and '½' (and probably a lot more as well, but these are the ones I encountered). They just show up as a square.
In Vision, however, the characters mentioned above show up no problem.

HTH

[jmarshall]

They're stored in UTF8 in the database, so no characters should have any issues whatsoever.

If you do find some that appear to have a problem, please provide a sample and I'll get it fixed.

Glad you like it btw ;)

Cheers,
Jonathan

[ClearSong]

Thanks, Jonathan!

Oh...and last night I found the Playlist Editor function...another gasp from the audience....way cool!!

Quick question..is there a way to delete songs from a saved playlist with the new Playlist Editor?

Thanks again for all your, and everyone else's, hard dedicated work to make this application really shine.

Clearsong

[don_camillo]

I can give an example which is not concerning the database, however resulting in character problems in the sources.xml. A bookmark name containing German 'Umlaute' is not displayed correctly:

<music>
<default></default>
<bookmark>
<name>Flügel</name> <path>F:\Music\</path>
</bookmark>
</music>

The character ü results in a square.

[jmarshall]

Add the bookmark via the GUI and it should be fine. Please confirm.

It's due to character encoding.

[ClearSong]

Please forgive me .... if the answer to this question appears in the Online Manual...I didn't find it.

"Quick question..is there a way to delete songs from a saved playlist with the new Playlist Editor?"

Thanks!

Clearsong

[don_camillo]

@jmarshall

Yes, this was the solution: I have added the bookmark via the GUI. If you are interrested, the sources.xml NOW looks as follows:

<music>
<default></default>
<bookmark>
<name>Flügel</name>
<path>F:\Music\</path>
</bookmark>
</music>

THX a lot :nod: