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Do you not need the complexity of the Library node and just want to see all your music by clicking on the first node (and navigate with the trackbrowser/search like in itunes)? Do you want to set up your filters but then be able to access them by having a separate node for each?

The new filters in MediaMonkey 3 work well. They let you define subsets of music that you would like to group together when browsing (not unlike separate databases). The only problem is that you have to right click on the Library node each time you want to see a new filter.

Filter Nodes creates main nodes with the same names as your filters. Simply click on these nodes and MediaMonkey willl activate that filter and show you the all tracks associated with it.

- you don't need to expand the node to then click on the "Artist" node
- because each view uses a different filter, it remembers your view settings.. so each of these nodes can have different columns set up!


Setting up Subnodes:
If one of your filters can be divided up into more categories, you can created subnodes off them by setting up another filter with a certain naming convention:
If you main node is named

My Music

Then you can create a subnode by naming another filter

My Music -- subnode name

(The important thing is to divide it with 2 consecutive hyphens)


Using Keywords for assistance:
Filter Nodes also gives some assistance with certain keywords.
At the moment, these include "Albums" and "Non-Albums"
Extending on the example above, you could name a filter

My Music -- Albums

(giving it the same criteria as My Music) and it would only show songs in which the Album Name is defined.
(the reason this has been included is because currently, it is complicated in MM3 to create a filter which does this)

The keyword "Non-Albums" doesn't restrict the tracks, it simply makes the "default" sort order Artist then Title.
(restricting the tracks to only songs without albums can be done by including the criteria within your filter;

Album is Unknown

Options (accessed through tools/options/"Filter Nodes Settings"):

- hide / unhide the Library
- auto expand playlist node on startup
- expand main filter nodes on startup
- alternative icons for now playing & library
- keyword assistance


Hope you all like the script.
Dale.


bugs:
- currently the trackbrowser doesn't work properly with "script created nodes" and the album art views - this bug has already been fixed and should affect upcoming MM releases

feature additions:
- in a future release, MM3 will support changing the view mode via script.. at which point a new release of Filter Nodes will remember view modes for each filter node.

Dale:

This looks like a powerful script, however I get the following error when trying to select a node. BTW, it's fuzzy like that because that message just keeps flashing:



Also, once I rebooted MM it just locked up on me and I had to close it. Any ideas??

Nyn

EDIT: A reboot of Windows fixed my errors, now I will continue to check out this scipt.

nynaevelan wrote:Dale:

This looks like a powerful script, however I get the following error when trying to select a node. BTW, it's fuzzy like that because that message just keeps flashing:

Also, once I rebooted MM it just locked up on me and I had to close it. Any ideas??

Nyn

EDIT: A reboot of Windows fixed my errors, now I will continue to check out this scipt.

Hi nynaevelan, sorry you had to experience that!
Unfortunately, at the moment, if there's an error in the sql it will do that..

the error you had in your sql was that there was no sql (show ALL tracks) and I hadn't allowed for that.
Your other nodes should work.. but don't click on "Show all tracks" until I release the a new version to fix it.

Dale.

Dale:

Ironically enough I never use that one, but of course that was the first one listed when I first implemented your script. But now that I have implemented the subnodes, it no longer shows in the list.

BTW this is awesome, it is a perfect compliment to my nodes in the My Custom Nodes scipt.

Nyn

Dale:

Any idea why the Filter Nodes are displaying in the opposite as how they are positioned natively in MM? For example in MM, they are:

Album Art
Audiobooks
Podcasts

But in FN, they display as:

Podcasts
Audiobooks
Album Art

Nyn

Great script. I don't use filters that much, but this script has me using them a lot more. Is there any way to have the filter views collapse into one expandable node? I have a bunch of filter views now and they're taking up a lot of space. Great script.

Bluegimme:

DaledeSilva wrote:
Setting up Subnodes:
If one of your filters can be divided up into more categories, you can created subnodes off them by setting up another filter with a certain naming convention:
If you main node is named

My Music

Then you can create a subnode by naming another filter

My Music -- subnode name

(The important thing is to divide it with 2 consecutive hyphens).

It works like a charm.

Nyn

Ah-ha! I read that but didn't understand exactly what it was about. Thanks for the flashlight. So, I've created a "false" filter view that is the "folder" name and then added that folder name to the beginning of every filter I want in it. This gives me what I was looking for.

Dale - Just downloaded your script & extracted the .mmip file. I don't know why but i can't seem to open .mmip files at the moment. My system just locks up. I had the same problem with one of Bex's scripts & had to install it manually. I'll have to do the same with yours.

Should your script be copied to MM Scripts or Auto

David

yep

Dale - Is that "yep" Scripts or "yep" Auto.

David

It's yep to Auto.

Nyn

Davo wrote:Dale - Is that "yep" Scripts or "yep" Auto.

David

isn't it frustrating when you wait all day for someone to reply to your post and then they say something ambiguous cause they didn't read the question properly!

Dale:

Any idea why the sorting is not working??

Nyn

when is it not working?