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[cavitycr33p]

Im looking to navigate xlobby similiar to myhtpc. My Music is set up like this

D:Music\Metallica\Master of Puppets\Tracklist.mp3

I have multiple albums in folder under the Metallica folder

No matter what skin I use, the music is always scattered, it usually shows all the folders under D:Music, and doesnt catagorize them like I have them set up

For instance, it will show Weezer-TBADE, Weezer-Pinkerton, Weezer-Green album

Instead I want it to just show Weezer, and let me navigate to the albums under that folder, on a seperate screen

Any ideas? If anybody has used Myhtpc, you will know what im talking about.

[dalanik]

I'd like to know this as well, whether it's possible....

[Arthur]

Ok, I've no solution but maybe it will help.
As far as I can see you can either use a filter or create your own metamask.
If you use the filter the database is imported using the default Xlobby settings. The filter lets you select an artist and then it shows you all the albums by that artist. This implies that your mp3 tags are very well organised as Metallica is seen as completly different from metallica.

The other way is creating your own database, by using a metamask.
Using this this metamask:

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\\(?<artist>.*)\\(?<album>.*)\\(?<name>.*)\..*
Other settings are:
Import type: custom
Folder: container

You will import a database in which the top level is the bandname.
Now the only problem is how to show this information on your screen. (yeah I know, create a category field, but as you are now using 3 levels, in stead of 2 its a bit harder, anyway, haven't figured it out)

By the way, a lot of people are looking for something like this but I haven't seen a complete solutions nor a skin which can handle this.

Arthur

[oneman]

Here's a round about way...

Place some cover art in the top folder (metalica)...

Then go to F2 -> Databases -> highlight music -> then edit...

Add a new item called metalica and then drag all of you metalica albums
under it as sub items...

On the right side browse to your coverart...

This will give you a metalica folder in album view...

It's a lot of work if you have a big collection, hope this helps...

[dcdell]

I too am considering a change from myHTPC but for the life of me I cannot figure out why the default would not be Artist, then click it and a sublevel for Albums are displayed. That is how the vast majority of users organize their music collection because this IS how they want to see it. Why would a front end for a music/video system not follow this rule?
If this could be accomplished easily then I am sold- I love the program!

[mattdisaster]

I'm sure its just a matter of working with the import template and the meta masks. I'll mess around with it once i get the htpc back up.

-matt

[Arthur]

By using a metamask to import your own database you can have the following:
A list of bands in which you can click, then it will show a list of albums of that band, which when you click on it will show a list of tracks. The musicdetails field will show one level down, so if you hover over a band it will show the albums, if you hover over albums it will show tracks.

Althoug it may seem that this solves your problem, it does not. I can't get a field showing the artist name once I've clicked on the list (it then shows the albums, with no reference to the artist) I think it has something to do with the database structure.

Arthur

[lar282]

man I would love to make this work.
The meta mask was a good idea but like u said then u dont get any info at all in the sublevels.


//Lasse

[cavitycr33p]

A bit of a example of what I'm looking for is here

http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8628#8628

For the people who havent messed with myhtpc and don't know what the directory structure is.

thanx guys for the help, I hope somebody gets this down.