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[phatanhappy]

I have receintly inhereted a teenager that has an affinity for music that is in appropriate for his age.  Is there a feature that will lock the music if selected?  A   "V" button (chip) for media center?

It would be nice to be able to password a group of songs and not let them play unless you have a PW. 

Is it something that could be considered for a future version?

[phatanhappy]

p.s. - it would also be nice to be able to use it to prevent songs from being played at a gathering that grandparents might not appreciate.......

[GHammer]

I can see where a Parental Control kind of thing would be handy.

[JimH]

MC11 has a feature called "Access Control".  It's under the View menu.

It was built for movies, but I believe it will work for music.  It restricts access to certain ratings -- R, etc.  I think you'll have to rate the music somewhere.  I can find out more if necessary.  It may be in the MC Help.

[zxsix]

The atagger plugin will fill in the official rating for albums, fyi.

[KingSparta]

Interesting idea is if J river would think about this.

If the song name, artist name or other tags to include "lyrics", "notes" etc...

have any profane language and (or language entered by the admin) is found and the user who is logged in does not have admin rights the files would not be seen and or playable by the user.

[zxsix]

I have a completely 3rd party possibility for the profane language....
I use an internet filter for my kids called Cyber Sentinel.
What I like about this program is it doesn't act as a proxy for certain programs.  Other filters will only work with certain instant messengers and certain browsers and not at all with programs it doesn't know about.
This one monitors what's displayed on the screen.
So if ABCDE is a profane word, anytime that appears on the screen, whether it be in an instant messenger chat, web browser, or inside the playing now track info plugin with lyrics showing in MC.
It can be configured to shut down the program, cover the entire display area in gray, or just silently alert you that the content was viewed (including a screen shot).
You can also add words to the "dirty words" filter.  So if you don't want him listening to a certain artist at all, just add the artist name to the word list.

Perhaps using atagger to fetch the ratings for all your songs, then build a view scheme that excludes those you don't want, using access control in MC (I don't know about that) would work, and then Cyber Sentinel will let you know if there are any breeches.

[LonWar]

Isn't the rating in aTagger the Album rating.. ie 1 to 5?

I didn't think the Source captured if the album was R rated or not.

[zxsix]

I'm not talking about the album rating field.
It also has a field called Parental Advisory.

[@l@n]

I use aTagger's Parental Advisory lookup and a 4 letter word text scan of King Sparta's lyrics to determine if a song is R/X rated.

If the data source's Type files contains the text "Parental Advisory", aTagger will set the user specified tag to true.

--@l@n

[LonWar]

I'm not talking about the album rating field.
It also has a field called Parental Advisory.

How did I miss that .....

Maybe I need new glasses?