Categories and sub-categories to organize music
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Database can make things very interesting. It is possible to make impossible things (or at least very difficult to implement).pety said:
For example you could identify as:
-The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Laidback Luke remix)
part of the song:
-The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
(And use this as a filter in PLGen Pro)
And make filters very interesting for PLGen Pro.
For example:
Songs of the 90s that are slow. (in a very simple way)
Also see a list of these songs very simple. See this link http://www.djsoft.net/smf/index.php/topic,4651.msg22897.html#msg22897
Obviously all this is a job of programming (on the side of RadioBOSS) Organization and classification of music. (users)
We don't need all the features and filters with urgency, but I think that it is a way to go.
I agree that can be cumbersome for some users the connection to the database and may arise a lot of queries on the stand.djsoft said:Currently for RadioBOSS 5.6 we want to add custom user fields, but that's mostly for reporting purposes. Custom fields can also be used in filters in Playlist Generator. I'm not sure about database, it's not much work to add this actually, but I also remember "RadioBOSS Pro" experience (years ago), where we used external database, and it was nightmare for customer support
But alternatives such as SQLite that are local, I think you could establish the connection string from the source code (have done this in Android apps from Delphi and I have had no problems). and avoid all these problems that have inexperienced users.
I remember that some time ago we talked about the theme database and you proposed to optional use of database users.
But in terms practical perhaps become very cumbersome to keep two options, mostly because things that are implemented very simple database cost much work to implement as they do now.
It is only my point of view
This can be done without database as well... There's already partial artist matching in RadioBOSS. Same can be added for track title too (although this feature was never requested).nelson c said:
This is possible using the Comment field... Database is not required here either. The problem is that UI is not that good for managing using the Comment - and that's going to be improved soon.nelson c said:
No MSSQL server, that's for surenelson c said:
We'll give a choice on what database to use, I think start with SQLite and MySQL should be enough.It's buried and it was back in 2004 or so - I don't have a distribution that is able to startnelson c said:Did not know that it existed a version of RadioBOSS with database.
Is it possible to send me a download link to test?
It was failed project, so not much a loss anyway. It used Firebird database and we had lots of problems (user reported) with server setup, configuration, conflicts with other software, etc etc.Yes, custom fields will be added in 5.6. Categories are not complex, but it requires some planning on how it all should work, and I also RB should be prepared for this, at least convert current XML database to embedded SQL (eg SQLite) to make it all manageable.nelson c said:
