Firstly, i also have a license of Collectorz but i do not want to continue with this, and as far as the choice voor MC i do not regret this at all, is is great. I would be able to do everything i want in the windows version. And though i use windows professionally i DO NOT want to reintroduce windows at my home.
my digital music is on a nas, which feeds to mc 19 to a mac mini (no screen, no mouse, no keyboard) that is connected to an Audio Research Dac and from there "there is great sounding music :-)
So what do i want to achieve, basically 2 things :
1. printing, however this is now under control, i managed to get the export working and can do all the reports i want in :
- numbers
- xsl:fo
i found the fields causing problems with funny characters.
2. reading the liner notes (or other info)
the first thing i do when i listen to a cd or lp is read the liner notes. This is not possible of course with digital stuff. Therefor i was thinking on creating the liner notes on the fly with all the information in the tags.
- i do not want to use the tag box at the left of the screen in a client version, this is does not give the liner note feeling
- i was able to achieve what i wanted in the windows version (i downloaded a trial and tried in there) with track info visualisations, but this is on my professional pc and i do not want to use that for listening to music (i can send some screenshots from work tomorrow)
- i switched to jremote and foud it ok to work with, however did not get the Liner note feeling either the tags are represented as a list and it is just not the same
then webremote came to my attention it was basically doing what i wanted it to do, show what you are listening to, and give some information about it. I managed to change the layout, fonts, colorschemes, etc. Which was easy. When i started adding the tags i wanted i saw that some i succeeded and others not. I found out that this was because web remote is using Playback/Info?Zone=-1&Token= in the java script and MrC and Matt pointed me to get info which should be able to do all i want to do and i was a bit optimistic to think that i could simply change the MCWS command in the java script, and it would run but it did not of course, it gives the info in an MPL that is downloaded. that is where i am stuck.
Even though i work in an a software company i am not a technical person, well in any cas not in any programming language that would be useful here (well actually some of there reports i made are done in SAS :-))
My knowledge is limited to :
HTML
XSL (to convert xml's)
i can tweak the odd java script, but can not write them
i hope this is a clear overview of what i want to achieve,
if this can be done, i an stop using collectors and centralise all my music information in MC which i find very good for playback, and better than any other MAC alternative for cataloging. If i can get around visualising the info in MC the next step is to get all the info now in Collectorz into MC but there is lots of info on interact on this and i'm sure this will work ok for me.
thanks
raf
