As per pippin's reply to my orignal request posted in the ipeng thread, i'm reposting my question here as it seems to be rather a LMS question than an ipen question -)
1-> hence my remark to show only X-amount of hits in the first page? I'm coming from a Sonos system and there one has the search through 'tracks' option. I'm missing this feature.
2-> The screenshot is just one from the default settings. I removed the "track" folder already, but if you put whatever what, you can only pick the settings which are predefined under 'browse by' and 'Contribiton roles' (no song/track names there). Question was on how to add this (if possible?)
3-> i'll check the two other options, thanks!
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Originally Posted by Toothless
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Hi iPengers,
i've just started using LMS icw iPeng and I wondered if there is any way on how to search on track/song names...
ipeng is giving me a browse folder named 'artists, albums' on the left hand side of the app... but there is no 'trackname' feature. Ok I know, when you do a search it's giving some hitlists per artist/album/tracks... so one needs to scroll to the 'track' section and scroll through that list in order to find the track you're looking for...
I'd like to have a 'tracks' menu. When you click on it shows the list of tracks (maybe the first x tracks of course, cause loading al x-K tracks is a bit too much). I'm able to create a menu item 'tracks' through the "additional browse modes" setting, but after that i'm a bit stuck. It seems one is only able to choose from 2 'filters' - the 'artists' and 'albums' setting in 'browse by' field? This will show me all albums or artists when clikcing on the 'tracks' menu i've just created. In the 'contributing roles' i can only use ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, BAND, COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, TRACKARTIST it seems? So not 'track/song'? (see screenshot below)
Any idea on how I can create a 'track' menu which really lets me scroll through tracknames?
In addition: how can i search for a track without this system displaying the artist/album list. Any operators i can use in order to find a track? For example: if i search for the trackname 'Time' - it will show me ALL songs where 'time' is in the trackname... this is annoying as there can be a lot of results. I've tried to search "Time" - 'Time' - %Time% ...but that's not giving me what i want?
Thanks for your help/feedback already!
i've just started using LMS icw iPeng and I wondered if there is any way on how to search on track/song names...
ipeng is giving me a browse folder named 'artists, albums' on the left hand side of the app... but there is no 'trackname' feature. Ok I know, when you do a search it's giving some hitlists per artist/album/tracks... so one needs to scroll to the 'track' section and scroll through that list in order to find the track you're looking for...
I'd like to have a 'tracks' menu. When you click on it shows the list of tracks (maybe the first x tracks of course, cause loading al x-K tracks is a bit too much). I'm able to create a menu item 'tracks' through the "additional browse modes" setting, but after that i'm a bit stuck. It seems one is only able to choose from 2 'filters' - the 'artists' and 'albums' setting in 'browse by' field? This will show me all albums or artists when clikcing on the 'tracks' menu i've just created. In the 'contributing roles' i can only use ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, BAND, COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, TRACKARTIST it seems? So not 'track/song'? (see screenshot below)
Any idea on how I can create a 'track' menu which really lets me scroll through tracknames?
In addition: how can i search for a track without this system displaying the artist/album list. Any operators i can use in order to find a track? For example: if i search for the trackname 'Time' - it will show me ALL songs where 'time' is in the trackname... this is annoying as there can be a lot of results. I've tried to search "Time" - 'Time' - %Time% ...but that's not giving me what i want?
Thanks for your help/feedback already!
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Originally Posted by pippin
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OK, a few answers, if you want to discuss details please open a new thread because this is primarily a server configuration question.
First: a complete "tracks" menu is not a good idea, on a weak server it can easily crash it with a large library and in any case with a large library you can expect a few hours of load time for that menu....
Regarding "Additional Browse Modes": I don't see you creating a tracks menu, I only see artists menus, I don't think you can create any "tracks" menu. There is "Top Tracks" which shows top rated tracks, no idea how that's determined.
Regarding the Search: first, you can use the global search instead of iPeng's local search, just check the globe icon on iPad, on iPhone it's under "Extras". There you can select "My Music->Songs".
Regarding search from the beginning of the title or from within the title, there's a server setting for that: Settings->My Music->Search within words.
First: a complete "tracks" menu is not a good idea, on a weak server it can easily crash it with a large library and in any case with a large library you can expect a few hours of load time for that menu....
Regarding "Additional Browse Modes": I don't see you creating a tracks menu, I only see artists menus, I don't think you can create any "tracks" menu. There is "Top Tracks" which shows top rated tracks, no idea how that's determined.
Regarding the Search: first, you can use the global search instead of iPeng's local search, just check the globe icon on iPad, on iPhone it's under "Extras". There you can select "My Music->Songs".
Regarding search from the beginning of the title or from within the title, there's a server setting for that: Settings->My Music->Search within words.
2-> The screenshot is just one from the default settings. I removed the "track" folder already, but if you put whatever what, you can only pick the settings which are predefined under 'browse by' and 'Contribiton roles' (no song/track names there). Question was on how to add this (if possible?)
3-> i'll check the two other options, thanks!