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

[dypsis]

I started MM today, and I was asked if I wanted to add additional Magic Nodes. I hope it won't ask me again in another weeks time.

[mortis42]

I have been trying to download this for the last couple of days and can not connect to the server.

Is there an alternate location to get this script, or another means for me to obtain it?

Thanks

[hintergrundrauschen/]

No problem downloading here...

[mortis42]

No problem downloading here...

Must be something on my end then, ISP or maybe OpenDNS? I dunno. I was able to get it using my Tor-enabled browser on my USB stick.

Thanks

[Danne]

Hi!

If I would want to create a Magic Node identical to the standard "Year" node in MM (that is sorting by century, and then by year), but instead using "Original Year" what would the mask look like?

I know I probably should be able to work that out for myself, but I'm extremely stupid, and can't make it work.

[ZvezdanD]

If I would want to create a Magic Node identical to the standard "Year" node in MM (that is sorting by century, and then by year)

It could be displayed by century or by decades, but not on the same node level as it is displayed with the built-in MM node. (Anyway, I don't know if it is a bug or a feature, but century nodes don't work as expected in the built-in Year node.) Displayed captions are somewhat different, but you could try it:

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Centuries|Icon:Top level\<Year|Trim:2>\<Year>

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Decades|Icon:Top level\<Year|Trim:3>\<Year>

[Danne]

Thanks a lot, it was something like that I had in mind!

[danhackley]

Hi, can anyone help me with a magic node for recently added albums ? By recently added I mean the last 50 albums added, with newer ones displacing older ones in the list. It must recognise new albums when I add them to the library by going to file>add/rescan tracks to the library and then adding just the new albums.

I don't need it to recognise the last 50 I have already added (though this would be useful), but once it is activated it should recognise all newly added albums.

[ZvezdanD]

can anyone help me with a magic node for recently added albums ?

You really expect to much from this script: 1. you cannot automatically refresh the content of some node after e.g. Add/Rescan Tracks to the Library (however, you could do this manually after this command is applied by collapsing/expanding a node); 2. you cannot "recognise the last 50" "once it is activated", instead you could add a filter condition to exclude tracks added before some specific date, for example:

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Filter:<Date added> > '2008-07-22'

Here is what you could try:

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Oldest added albums|Icon:Top level|SQL filter: Songs.IDAlbum IN (SELECT IDAlbum FROM Songs GROUP BY IDAlbum HAVING Count(TrackNumber) = Max(Cast(TrackNumber As integer)) AND Count(TrackNumber) > 3 ORDER BY Min(DateAdded) LIMIT 50)\<Album|Sort by:Max(Days since added)|Sort order:Desc>

[Guest]

ZvezdanD - thank you very much for your input - it is much appreciated.

I tried your suggestion. Here is what I found:

A magic node appears called "recently added albums". On opening the node I am present with a list of 50 items. The format of the items seems to be:
"152 days ago - [album title]"

This list is, as far as I can tell, not the latest 50 albums added. The list comprises albums from 3 particular genres - I am not sure why this is. Also, I do not remember adding all these particular albums 152 days ago.

However, the important thing is that it remembers new albums added. I added a new album by going to "file>add/rescan tracks to the library", locating the album and ticking the box next to it before clicking OK. I see that the album has been added to the library. However, when I refresh the "recently added albums" node, this new one does not appear in the list. I tried restarting MM3 but this made no differece.

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, but I guess what I am looking for is
1) for the format to be "Album artist - Album (x days ago)" (ideally)
2) for the node to recognise newly added albums and keep a list of the last 50

Thanks for your help so far,
Dan

[danhackley]

The above message is from me (as you have probably guessed) - I forgot to log in ! And "present" should read "presented".
And point 1) should read:
1) for the format to be "Album artist - Album (added x days ago)" (ideally)

Thanks

[ZvezdanD]

This list is, as far as I can tell, not the latest 50 albums added.

Sorry, I don't know what I was thinking This was for oldest added albums (I edited my previous post to reflect that) and here is the correct one:

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Recently added albums|Icon:Top level|SQL filter: Songs.IDAlbum IN (SELECT IDAlbum FROM Songs GROUP BY IDAlbum HAVING Count(TrackNumber) = Max(Cast(TrackNumber As integer)) AND Count(TrackNumber) > 3 ORDER BY Min(DateAdded) DESC LIMIT 50)\<Album|Sort by:Max(Days since added)>

1) for the format to be "Album artist - Album (x days ago)" (ideally)
2) for the node to recognise newly added albums and keep a list of the last 50

As I already said, this script cannot automatically "recognise" when you add some new album, you need to do this manually by collapse/expand this node. Speaking about a format, only you can do is to replace <Album|...> with:

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<Album artist with Album|Sort by:Max(Days since added)|Sort key:0|Statistic:Max(Days since added)>

[danhackley]

Many thanks ZvezdanD - your lastest code has given me exactly what I was looking for, as far as I can tell. This code should be standard with MM as when albums are regularly updated it's easy to forget about recently added ones without such a list.
I've added the code |Child of:Artist| so that the node appears with all the others rather than as a magicnode subnode.

I'll keep informed on this thread of how I get on.
Dan

[hhggrr]

Been trying to create a new node unsuccesfully. What I am trying to achieve is to generate a list of artists in my library with just one song ... perhaps by genre. Any help with this would be appreciated.

[Robokopi]

hello,

i have questioned Zvezdan befor and he told me to put the question in here. so before i come to the remaining question, i give you the original mail:

i would like to have to most easiest code: albums and interprets, each for their own, listed from A to Z.
someone gave me the code for it:

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Artist|child of:library\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

but then, the new folder isn't listed into the library but stands on the same hierarchy. i would like to have it INTO the library-folder (as alternative to the original artist-folder). so i found one of your codes, which is installed into the library-folder. its:

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<Group|Name:Problematic tracks|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\Tracks without lyrics|Filter:<Lyrics> = ''\<Title>

i now tried to combine both - the location of the new folder with the function i would like to have. unfortunately i can't do it. i don't know why, but mm says it's an invalid code:

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<Group|Name:Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

would you please tell me where the error is?

the next thing i would do is to sort the various albums for the single interpret not after alphabetical order but after year. can you give me a hint how to do this?

Last question: Where can I define the bands with "the" are sort under "T" and not under their firts main letter?

he answered

the new folder isn't listed into the library but stands on the same hierarchy. i would like to have it INTO the library-folder (as alternative to the original artist-folder).

There are two ways for this - you could use Child of:Library|Position:Last child or just Child of:Artist.

i don't know why, but mm says it's an invalid code:

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<Group|Name:Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

You didn't specified a global level node, i.e. node which is not surrounded by angled brackets. Instead you tried to create a new group. A correct mask could be like this:

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<Group|Name:My Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\Artist|Show tracks:No\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

But if you want it without additional group node level, you could write just like this:

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Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

I am just curious, why you want two trimmed level, one with the first character and next with two first characters? It is usual to use just trim:1 without trim:2, like this:

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Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist>\<album>

the next thing i would do is to sort the various albums for the single interpret not after alphabetical order but after year.

You know, there is already a mask included with the script which has almost all what you want, except of the node position - it is called "Album Artist [A-Z], Album (by Year)". For sorting by year you should add Sort by:Max(Year) to the album node like this:

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Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Artist>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist>\<album|Sort by:Max(Year)>

You should know that with the Magic Nodes script you could add new nodes, but you could not remove existing built-in MM nodes. So, if you enter mentioned mask you would have two Artist nodes inside of the Library node. If you want to remove built-in Artist node, you should uncheck Artist check box in Tools/Options - Library/Filters and Views - None (Show all Tracks)/Configure/Default View Options. Alternatively there is a faster way to get this dialog box: right click on any node and select Options/Choose Tree nodes.

Where can I define the bands with "the" are sort under "T" and not under their firts main letter?

This is not possible through a MN mask, but if you want such display permanetly you could clear a text box in Tools/Options - Library/Appearance/Ignore prefixes when sorting by Artist.

now to what it had led

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i don't know if i am to dumb, but the codes you gave me don't work. there is always the info: The mask is not correct.

The only one which work is:

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<Group|Name:My Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\Artist|Show tracks:No\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

but you are right: then i have a subnode "main artist" (like i want it) and a sub-sub-node "artist" (which i don't want). and furthermore, i have e.g. in letter A another sub-sub-sub-node "A", "Ad", "Am". I suppose, this is what you was wondering about - the second trim order.

these codes don't work and i don't know where the error is

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Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist|trim:2>\<artist>\<album>

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Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist>\<album>

i would thought, that if i don't want the second sub-node (before the letters) and the second trim-order, i just delete it, that it will look like:

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 <Group|Name:My Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\>artist>\<album> 

does'nt work.

you gave that proposal, it doesn't work either.

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Artist|Show tracks:No|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\<artist|trim:1>\<artist>\<album>

but if i leave

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|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>

out, i habe a valid entry with

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Artist|Show tracks:No\<artist|trim:1>\<artist>\<album>

But I don't have it into the library as well as in the beginning of this post. So there seems to be a problem with the "group" and "child of:" order.

Nevertheless, to sum it up, I now have achieved to put it into the library folder, to sort it after A-Z, to show the tracks in every level (by leaving the "show tracks: no" order out) and to sort the albums of every artist by year, newest upside.

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<Group|Name:My Artist|Child of:Library|Position:Last child>\Artist\<artist|trim:1>\<artist>\<album|Sort by:max(Year)|Sort order:desc>

i need a hint how to take the first sub-node "artist" out for having the "trim"-order after "my artists". maybe the grouping is useless. i don't understand that function at all. and i don't understand, why, when i left the <group> order out and have only <child of:> it won't work.

additional question: for saving some space, can i sort the albums like above, but hide the year? now it says: "2008 - XYZ" but it should be without the year. I know for myself, that the newest is on top.

thanks a lot.

regards,
rob