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Networks and Remotes => Media Network => Topic started by: DaveL on January 05, 2011, 08:15:00 pm
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I'm trying to get a list of unique albums in a library using the MCWS/v1/Library/Values URI. However this isn't really possible since the same album name can be used by more than one artist (think "Greatest Hists"). What I need to get the entries where the "Album Artist" + "Album" returns a unique entry. Is this possible?
Note that I can "sorta" get this information by parsing the single "AutoDir" field. But this doesn't seem reliable for all users since it depends on how the directory\files are organized on disk.
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I'm trying to get a list of unique albums in a library using the MCWS/v1/Library/Values URI. However this isn't really possible since the same album name can be used by more than one artist (think "Greatest Hists"). What I need to get the entries where the "Album Artist" + "Album" returns a unique entry. Is this possible?
Internally we often use an album key which is a combination of "Album Artist (auto)" and "Album".
However, it's not currently possible to get this using MCWS/v1/Library/Values.
As an aside, I don't know if you're doing search, but MCWS/v1/Library/Values is what powers Gizmo search. You can specify multiple fields and also a filter.
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Internally we often use an album key which is a combination of "Album Artist (auto)" and "Album".
However, it's not currently possible to get this using MCWS/v1/Library/Values.
Any chance of adding support for this? You could either add a new auto field similar to the other auto generated fields like "Artist - Album (Year)") or add support for a composite field to the Values field parameter.
As an aside, I don't know if you're doing search, but MCWS/v1/Library/Values is what powers Gizmo search. You can specify multiple fields and also a filter.
I'm building a list of all albums for browsing (and playing) on my Windows Phone 7. Very similar to Gizmo, just with WP7 look and feel.