Magic Nodes 4.2 w/ 380 masks & real GUI (2011-07-01)[MM2+]

[dtsig]

Artist = Director
Album = Series
Lyricist = Screenwriter

Other video fields are not currently implemented, but the development is in progress.

Sorry for the delay .. am i reading right that the season and episode information is not available in Magic Nodes? Any idea when they will become available.

Thanks

[ZvezdanD]

am i reading right that the season and episode information is not available in Magic Nodes? Any idea when they will become available.

Actually, the remaining video fields are already implemented, but I need to finish other additions and fixes before I publish the new version.

Folks, if you want to see the new version sooner, there is the information on the add-on's download page how you could help its development. Hint: it is under the "Donation" section.

[dtsig]

am i reading right that the season and episode information is not available in Magic Nodes? Any idea when they will become available.

Actually, the remaining video fields are already implemented, but I need to finish other additions and fixes before I publish the new version.

Folks, if you want to see the new version sooner, there is the information on the add-on's download page how you could help its development. Hint: it is under the "Donation" section.

<G> sounds good to me ... Thanks

[dtsig]

Is it possible to 'create' a new output string?

What I am trying to do is that while using dlna I want to get a list of 'unwatched' episodes. So starting with TV I then use 'played' to limit tracks to only those that haven't been watched. and you get just a list of episode titles. I would like to view the info with Season# Episode# - Title.

Is there a way to do that that I haven't found? I am reviewing the pdf but not seeing it.

Thanks

[ZvezdanD]

Is it possible to 'create' a new output string?

What I am trying to do is that while using dlna I want to get a list of 'unwatched' episodes. So starting with TV I then use 'played' to limit tracks to only those that haven't been watched. and you get just a list of episode titles. I would like to view the info with Season# Episode# - Title.

Is there a way to do that that I haven't found? I am reviewing the pdf but not seeing it.

Thanks

The combination of several arbitrary fields or any another custom string for displaying in captions of local nodes (e.g. <Album> myText <First Album Artist> some other text
<Main Genre>) is on my ToDo list almost from the begin. Unfortunately, that thing is not so simple as it sounds and I am not sure when/if I will ever add it.

There are few questions regarding to such syntax as well and here are just two ones which comes to my mind right now:
1. how to implement opening and closing angle brackets ("<" and ">") per one local node? I could implement the syntax where we would have first defined fields and text for caption and after that all related qualifiers (e.g. My Node\<Album> myText <First Album Artist> some other text<Main Genre>|Sort by:Avg(Year)\<Title>). However, that could lead to the broken compatibility with all existing masks where qualifiers are inside of <> brackets, but not outside.

2. on which field should be implemented Sort by qualifier (and probably many other qualifiers as well)? Let say that you want to add Sort by:Avg(Year) qualifier to my example - should it be implemented to <Album> or <First Album Artist> or <Main Genre> or to complete resulting field "<Album> myText <First Album Artist> some other text <Main Genre>"? You know, Avg(Year) is different for Artist than for Album or any other field.

Also, there is the question of complexity for users. The Magic Nodes Settings dialog is already too hard to understand for many users, if I add a possibility to create custom captions for nodes on local levels it would be a total disaster.

I think it could be a lot simpler, both for me and for users, if I add one or more new hard-coded fields that would return the wanted text, in your case it would be "Season# Episode# - Title".

However, I am not sure if I understand what you meant by "and you get just a list of episode titles." Did you try the suggestion that I sent to you by e-mail? I think it displays what you want, but on 3 levels instead of just one (just add \<Title> on the end):

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Test|Position:First child|Child of:Library|MM filter:Video\<Album>\<Season number>\<Episode number>

By the way, I think we should continue with this conversation in e-mail since you are referring to the fields that exist only in beta version that I sent to you.

[dtsig]

You are right, since I used video fields from the new beta ... I should have just used Year-Album as an example. That would be another that I want for looking at music. But will continue this on email.

[ZvezdanD]

You are right, since I used video fields from the new beta ... I should have just used Year-Album as an example. That would be another that I want for looking at music. But will continue this on email.

Well, if you want to display Year - Album then you could use Sort by qualifier:

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Test 1\<Album|Sort by:Min(Year)>

or if you want to display Album (Year) you could use Statistics qualifier:

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Test 2\<Album|Statistics:Min(Year)>

However, in that case you would get only one node per album, not matter if some album has tracks with different years.

EDIT: Actually, I think that using this technique you could get something similar to your initial request with Season# Episode# - Title, assuming that you have only one Title for each Season#/Episode#. For example, you could get Season# - Title (Episode#) with:

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Test 3\<Album>\<Title|Sort by:Min(Season Number), Min(Episode number)|Statistics:Min(Episode number)>

or, you could get Episode# - Title (Season#) with:

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Test 4\<Album>\<Title|Sort by:Min(Season Number), Min(Episode number)|Statistics:Min(Season number)|Show sort key:2>

[caffeine]

I'm going through the Magic Node documentation, but didn't get far before I hit my first question. I'm wrestling with this:

Lyricist|Child of:Artist\<Lyricist|Trim:1|Min tracks:10>\<Lyricist>\<Album>

I understand what each field and qualifier does, but I can't seem to find this node in MM. My understanding is that it's supposed to be "under" the node Artist, but I don't see this node. I seem to have a node named "Artist & Album Artist", not "Artist".

I can certainly create:

Lyricist\<Lyricist|Trim:1|Min tracks:10>\<Lyricist>\<Album>

and it goes right where I expect it to. But when you qualify with "Child of:Artist" exactly where is the node supposed to go? Directly underneath "Artist & Album Arist"?

Thanks!

[ZvezdanD]

when you qualify with "Child of:Artist" exactly where is the node supposed to go? Directly underneath "Artist & Album Arist"?

If you have MM4 and since you haven't specified Collection (MM filter qualifier) the node should be created after the Artist & Album Artist sub-node of the Entire Library node.

[Peter023]

I've posted this before, but probably in the wrong place as I've never gotten a reply. I thought I'd give it one more try. The abstraction of what I'm trying to do is to have a Magic Node that has a mask like this: Genre\Album but would like to have it sorted by Album Artist first and then by Album name. Another way to think of it is that I'd like the mask to be defined as Album Artist\Album, but not have it display the Album Artist. I would have hoped that a Mask of Album with a sort key of Album Artist would have done it, but it still sorts by Album name and the sort keys appear to be numeric only. Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Peter

[ZvezdanD]

what I'm trying to do is to have a Magic Node that has a mask like this: Genre\Album but would like to have it sorted by Album Artist first and then by Album name. Another way to think of it is that I'd like the mask to be defined as Album Artist\Album, but not have it display the Album Artist. I would have hoped that a Mask of Album with a sort key of Album Artist would have done it, but it still sorts by Album name and the sort keys appear to be numeric only.

That is possible with the new version of this add-on which is not freely available to the public.

Maybe you could use the <Album Artist With Album> instead of <Album> field with the last published version, but it will display Album Artist anyway.

[Peter023]

Hi ZvezdanD,

Thanks for the post. When you say "this add-on," you are referring to Magic Nodes? Is the version to which you refer going to be released at some point?

I'm intrigued by the <Album Artist With Album> idea, but where do I enter it? Magic Nodes doesn't seem to let me paste it directly into the mask

Thanks,

Peter

[ZvezdanD]

When you say "this add-on," you are referring to Magic Nodes?

Of course, this is its thread.

Is the version to which you refer going to be released at some point?

I am afraid that it will not be released to the public at all. However, it is already available to the donators.

I'm intrigued by the <Album Artist With Album> idea, but where do I enter it?

You could enter it directly in the Mask text box on the Magic Nodes Settings dialog box or you could choose the corresponding "Album Artist - Album" item from the Field list box.

Magic Nodes doesn't seem to let me paste it directly into the mask

Pasting to the Mask text box works just fine. If you are trying to enter the complete masks to the Caption text box - that doesn't work with the last published version, but it is possible with the new version even when the purpose of that text box is to enter node's caption, but not full masks.

[Peter023]

What is a donator? I've already purchased the Gold package.

[Magico]

I hope this is the appropriate place to post this.

I found a node option in magicnodes of "first album artist - album" and I love it, but what I'd really like is if the album folders were then sorted by the Album title rather than the first Album Artist.

Anyone know how I could get that going? Thanks in advance.