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dtc:
--- Quote from: cncb on September 07, 2022, 10:20:31 am ---I just was about to write this as I didn't see your edit. I think you are saying the same thing. If you uncheck the "Playable" tag for your Christmas files, then they don't play with other artist tracks. Is this sufficient or would you prefer a new library field specifically for the JTalk Play Artist? We could potentially use the "Custom" tag for this.
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Ideally I would like a way to play albums and songs at any time on my own but not have them included in commands which do a random selection of tracks, like Play Artist and Play Doctor. The Playability tag turns off all playing, which means I would have to toggle it at Christmas time or if a family member wanted to play a Christmas album off-season. I would prefer a mechanism that, once set, does not need to be reset, and that only applies to the random commands. I know that is pretty picky, but having to change tags should be avoided if possible. I think (not sure) Play Doctor may already have a mechanism for not playing Christmas, but that is probably built into the MC Play Doctor code.
People already use the Custom tag, so I would suggest not using it for these specific Alexa commands.
Thanks for working on this.
cncb:
Matt came up with a good idea to use the Users feature to exclude certain genres from playback for JTalk. So, go to "View | User | Add user..." and put this in the Files To Show field: -[Genre]=[XMAS]
Select this new user in the "View | User" menu and when you use JTalk it won't attempt to play any Christmas music. When you want to be able to play Christmas music, simply select the original Administrator user in the same menu.
Note that this won't work completely until the next version of the skill and MC30 build.
dtc:
--- Quote from: cncb on September 08, 2022, 12:16:18 pm ---Matt came up with a good idea to use the Users feature to exclude certain genres from playback for JTalk. So, go to "View | User | Add user..." and put this in the Files To Show field: -[Genre]=[XMAS]
Select this new user in the "View | User" menu and when you use JTalk it won't attempt to play any Christmas music. When you want to be able to play Christmas music, simply select the original Administrator user in the same menu.
Note that this won't work completely until the next version of the skill and MC30 build.
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The idea is to be able to play Christmas music directly, but have it not play in commands like Play Artist. I have not been a big Play Doctor user, but I believe it excludes Christmas. Can you incorporate that logic into a Play Artist implementation? Excluding Christmas is probably enough. I would not worry about Xmas.
Unfortunately, Matt's solution is just too complicated for the average user and I do not believe it addresses playing Christmas directly but not include it in Play Artist. If I want to exclude Xmas from playing, then setting Playability is probably easier, but again not particularly user friendly for the average user.
I just trying to reproduce what other online services do by default.
Thanks.
JimH:
This may now work (or soon will work) with MC29.0.86 if you have installed an MC30 license.
The license install lets you remove the old license and install the new one if necessary. Help > Registration
dtc:
It looks like Play Artist now plays a random selection of tracks and excludes Christmas music. I need to do more testing, but this looks great.
THANKS.
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