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[mirdle]

Is there any way (mouse-click or keystroke or mjextman command) to skip to the next album (not necessarily the next track) in a playlist that has been sorted by albums?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Mark.

[modelmaker]

Not as far as I know. Skip only works for  next track.

[Alex B]

I have changed full albums in Playing Now by sending them from a static playlist. I use the Album Thumbnails list style. I simply right-click the thumbnails and select "Play" or "Add to Playing Now". That doesn't skip albums, but it is a fast and comfortable way to change them.

[mirdle]

Thanks for all of the help.

I really wish it would allow for a more album-centric approach.  Maybe in future releases.

Alex B -
Your method is what I often do now.  But is there a way to automate this? (like with a keystroke(s) or mjextman command?)  I suppose it might be possible to use a smartlist, but I'm not sure how right now.

[LonWar]

If you are intersted in Album Views, then you should try out this plugin:


http://accessories.jrmediacenter.com/mediacenter/accessories.php
Look for :  Album View

[risingdamp]

Do you use NetRemote with MC?  If so you could automate it easily by writing some lua code that would note the current album name and keep skipping tracks until the album name changed.  Maybe you can do that now with some means other than NR if you know how to get the album name into a variable outside of MC?

[Alex B]

Do you use NetRemote with MC? If so you could automate it easily by writing some lua code that would note the current album name and keep skipping tracks until the album name changed. Maybe you can do that now with some means other than NR if you know how to get the album name into a variable outside of MC?

A future MC version could have that kind of code internally. It could have a configurable "Skip to the next tag change" button. There could be a drop-down list for selecting the desired field: Artist, Album, Genre, etc.

MC could also allow album thumbnails in Playing Now and optionally skip "thumbnails" instead of tracks.

[mirdle]

Do you use NetRemote with MC?  If so you could automate it easily by writing some lua code that would note the current album name and keep skipping tracks until the album name changed.  Maybe you can do that now with some means other than NR if you know how to get the album name into a variable outside of MC?

I use Girder (which has a Lua plugin).  So this would work if I could figure out how to get the album name into a variable outside of MC.  Anybody know how to do this?

[risingdamp]

I use Girder (which has a Lua plugin).  So this would work if I could figure out how to get the album name into a variable outside of MC.  Anybody know how to do this?

I started off a discussion on your behalf on the NR forum.  Hope this helps:

http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11520

[risingdamp]

So does it help?

[mirdle]

So does it help?

Yes very much so thank you!  I didn't know that you could interface LUA with Media Center Interface SDK.  I'm sure it will take some time to do all the programming, but at least now I know it's possible.

Thanks again.