Display abums you don't have.

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Display abums you don't have.

2023-02-12 03:36:53

If you were to display albums that you don't currently have but might wish to get in the future, how would you do that in fb? I'm hoping for something like this, I display an artist using artist filter, the albums I don't have, just have one greyed out entry for the title of the album. Don't need the individual songs for this yet.

Re: Display abums you don't have.

Reply #1 – 2023-02-12 13:21:29

Not displayed in your library exactly, but you can drop the Find & Play script (in Spider Monkey Panel) and it can pull a list of the (mostly) full catalogue of releases from MusicBrainz, for the selected / playing artist. *

Since it does load that information from the internet for every track change (of artist), I would probably recommend putting the panel behind a Tab (where I think it stays inactive?) or otherwise in a pop-up window, like I have -

Besides it has plenty of worthwhile features, creating library + "Auto DJ" playlist mixes and so forth...

* Also, together with Youtube Source, click on an album and it can assemble the tracks into a playlist, ready to play / stream directly from Youtube. (Fantastic!)

** Also, together with m-TAGS, it can save that remote album to your library. (I suppose these features work best if the artist / tracks are popular enough to have "official audio" uploads to Youtube)

Re: Display abums you don't have.

Reply #2 – 2023-02-12 22:31:19

Thanks, will have to fiddle around with that.

Re: Display abums you don't have.

Reply #3 – 2023-02-13 12:52:12

Speaking of m-tags, you could manually do that with them. i.e. m-tags are like virtual files, so you may create a virtual file for every album you want without needing the SMP plugin.

Obviously you can mix that approach with Find and Play (for playback or extra tagging). Just saying, to make it clear you don't need Find and Play to have the virtual albums. It's just an extra.

Re: Display abums you don't have.

Reply #4 – 2023-02-14 21:12:20

Quote from: regor on 2023-02-13 12:52:12

Speaking of m-tags, you could manually do that with them. i.e. m-tags are like virtual files, so you may create a virtual file for every album you want without needing the SMP plugin.

Obviously you can mix that approach with Find and Play (for playback or extra tagging). Just saying, to make it clear you don't need Find and Play to have the virtual albums. It's just an extra.

Thanks

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