RE: Re: xPLMediaNet - How to deal with Various Artist Albums

["Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mal,

> What's the practical difference between "unknown" and
"no
> album"?  Are unknown items dropped from the database?

With 'unknown' the album is regarded as actually having a title of unknown,
so appears as such everywhere

What I'm thinking with 'no album' is that the tags helper will return a
blank value, so we don't have album(s) called unknown?

> Sounds reasonable.  I don't know how your modules
> communicate, but if it's anything like xPL where all devices
> receive all messages, it should be fairly straighforward to
> snoop the play commands.

The modules interact totally independtly of xpl (with the exception of
interfaces, like web, which use xpl to control a device), they pass
parameters around as either one of several shared structures or a string
array

Since each client will have already grabbed (in theory) sufficient info on
the track it's playing, it just calls the new stats helper which either

A) finds the track hash in the data passed and simply adds it to stats

B) builds the hash from other supplied info (artist/album/track/filesize)
and add's it

Have decided to allow hashing of all stats, whether or not there is a match
in the media database, as these stats could be used by other modules at a
later date. In theory all existing modules (media, playlist, queries,
browser) should provide sufficient info to create a valid hash match :-)

Regards
Tony



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