INTERACT FORUM

More => Old Versions => Media Center 17 => Topic started by: MM_switcher on April 18, 2012, 01:15:54 pm

Title: "Nodes" with Genre / Subgenre
Post by: MM_switcher on April 18, 2012, 01:15:54 pm

Hello,

I've been a user of Mediamonkey over years, but unfortunately development seems to go into the wrong direction.
Accidentially I discovered the JRiver Media Center (for me only the audio-part is interesting): seems to be the "right direction of the MM-development". Having played aroung with MC17, I was impresed, the number (and quality) of features is really great  :)

One thing I realised positively is the creation of trees ("nodes" in MM), especially the "Genre" node is one thing I'd like to change. As my Genres are tagged like "Genre / Subgenre" the following MM-expression "Genres|Icon:7\<genre|left of:/ >\<genre|right of: />\<album artist>\<album|sort by:max(year)>" creates the attached dynamic node.

I know, that it is possible to do that with the MB as well, but despite having read the posts about regular expressions and other commands, I don't have any clue how.

Can you help me, to move from MM to the MC17?

Title: Re: "Nodes" with Genre / Subgenre
Post by: Matt on April 18, 2012, 01:22:10 pm

Welcome. 

You're sort of jumping into the deep end, but you can add a category based on an expression.  Try an expression like this:

Code: [Select]

[Genre]&DataType=[List]

If you use a forward slash instead of a backslash as the delimiter, you'll need to fix that like this:

Code: [Select]

Replace([Genre],//,\)&DataType=[List]

Title: Re: "Nodes" with Genre / Subgenre
Post by: MM_switcher on April 19, 2012, 04:40:52 am

Thanks a lot for the fast reply.

Quote from: Matt on April 18, 2012, 01:22:10 pm

You're sort of jumping into the deep end

Sorry for that, but the basic end is very comprehensive and intuitive, so I don't need assistance here (well done  :))

In general, MC looks very promising.

Title: Re: "Nodes" with Genre / Subgenre
Post by: Jonahsdad on April 22, 2012, 06:58:51 pm

I use subgenres as well.  I created a simple custom field, data type=String, Edit type= Standard.  I use it in a panes view with Genre, Subgenre, Artist, Album as the panes.  If I've selected a Genre, only Subgenres that have that Genre appear.  It works quite well.

I've been using this program for about 8 years, and I still can't figure out expressions.

Hope this helps.

Title: Re: "Nodes" with Genre / Subgenre
Post by: rick.ca on April 22, 2012, 08:04:46 pm

Quote

I've been using this program for about 8 years, and I still can't figure out expressions.

[Genre]\[Subgenre]&DataType=[List] and [Artist]\[Album]&DataType=[List] work nicely as panes in this case. ;)

Title: Re: "Nodes" with Genre / Subgenre
Post by: Jonahsdad on April 23, 2012, 10:20:47 am

Quote

[Genre]\[Subgenre]&DataType=

and

[Artist]\[Album]&DataType=

work nicely as panes in this case. Wink

Very nice, thank you.

I've got another question,but I'll start a new topic so as not to thread-jack.