Greetings and salutations

[elfranger]

Hi all. I have just installed xlobby on my laptop located in my living room. I have copied the client files onto my Qtek S200 and it looks as I am able to control xlobby with my Qtek. Atleast I get all the songs and albums listed.

I am looking for general help in ultimating xlobby for my use. The laptop is generally used for playing music when party is on so I really have no need for movie or pictures and such.

I noticed when browsing the music gallery, that it kind of reads some info from the folders/files and groups the songs accordingly. I have some album folders, but then I have one folder with unsorted material. I would expect it to sort by folder names, but it sorts the contents of the Misc folder into several categories... Can I change that somehow?

Also, if I select Play all, is there any way of searching for a song, using my Qtek? That would be just awesome. I can imagina a view where it says "Now playing", and then a list of songs available and a search button next to a text field. Is that present, or is it a request for enhancement?

Btw, I have been reading around on the forum, but not found answers to all these questions...

[ironcamel]

I found the easiest way to fix the misc issue was to create a custome database in Access or mySQL or something (I happened to have mine in one already) and have it export an xlobby format .xml. Then you can decide what you want each to be classified as. I'd recommend creating the table, altering your actual directory structure to exaclty how you want it to display, and then use a metamask function to populate using your directory structure.

That way you have far more control since you are maintaining the database outside the program. I happen to have a SQL server so I'm trying to set it up where Xlobby does a VIEW query of the selected information and uses that instead of .xml. Not necessary in the least, but I like tinkering.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

That is exactly what i have been planning to do too... have real database in MySQL, and form a snapshot of that for Xlobby at startup as XML. So far havent had time to do it yet, cause there is lot of stuff to take care before u r ultimately happy with your Xlobby system.

However if u have coded some general apps (like one which issues a custom query to MYSQL and forms .xml based on that or Xlobby plugin which allows send custom SQL sentences to MYSQL, well or any SQL based DBMS) I and prolly many others would be very interested to get our hands on them....

[ironcamel]

soon as I have it functional and stable I'll post with Docs.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

Very cool.