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

[ZvezdanD]

PS. Just seen that your node: "Artists with more then one album" should be "Artists with more THAN one album."

PS Thanks for that. English is not my mother language and I would be really grateful if you or someone else inform me about similar errors in my scripts.

[MM3 monkey]

I have a couple of suggestions. It's more work for you, I don't even know if they are possible and MN is already fantastic as it is - so please feel free to ignore me!

1. When we add Statistics it would be great if after selecting e.g. "Count" from the drop-down, MN could automatically move to the next drop-down. I would personally love it if "All" was automatically selected by default as soon as I selected "Count".


2. Could we not have to select the radio button next to "Group"? Could it be made so that just selecting the drop-down arrow would automatically select the radio button?


3. When moving a mask from e.g. #170 to #1, we have to hold down our mouse on the little arrow and wait for it to get from 170 to 1. Could there be an entry box there in which we could just enter a number?


4. When I add a new mask in an existing Group, despite your recent fix re. duplication, the mask gets put in another group of the same name - until you restart MediaMonkey. So I've taken to restarting MediaMonkey every time I create a new node. Mildly irritating.

Before restarting MM:

After restarting MM:

Thanks very much, ZvezdanD.

[ZvezdanD]

1. When we add Statistics it would be great if after selecting e.g. "Count" from the drop-down, MN could automatically move to the next drop-down. I would personally love it if "All" was automatically selected by default as soon as I selected "Count".

"All" is a nice choice for Count function, but what about other aggregate functions (Avg, Min, Max, Sum)? Which field should be automatically selected for them?

2. Could we not have to select the radio button next to "Group"? Could it be made so that just selecting the drop-down arrow would automatically select the radio button?

Could be done.

3. When moving a mask from e.g. #170 to #1, we have to hold down our mouse on the little arrow and wait for it to get from 170 to 1. Could there be an entry box there in which we could just enter a number?

Well, it could be done but what about confirmation? I need to add one more button in that case, right? I am not sure if it could fit with current design. Anyway, moving with this up/down arrows are much faster then using Up/Down buttons in the Export/Import dialog box. Unfortunately, MM still don't have OnMouseDown event handler for its controls

4. When I add a new mask in an existing Group, despite your recent fix re. duplication, the mask gets put in another group of the same name - until you restart MediaMonkey.

I could reproduce a problem and going to resolve this.

Thanks for report and suggestions.

[MM3 monkey]

"All" is a nice choice for Count function, but what about other aggregate functions (Avg, Min, Max, Sum)? Which field should be automatically selected for them?

No idea!! I don't currently use them. Even just to take us over to that next drop-down would help. The less mouse clicking the better.

Well, it could be done but what about confirmation? I need to add one more button in that case, right? I am not sure if it could fit with current design. Anyway, moving with this up/down arrows are much faster then using Up/Down buttons in the Export/Import dialog box. Unfortunately, MM still don't have OnMouseDown event handler for its controls

Sorry it's all a bit over my head. I only use the re-ordering when I want my mask to be e.g. before the mask it is currently after. All I ever do is send the mask right to the beginning (i.e. Number 1) because it's not worth the effort to go looking for what the numbers of the masks are. You can't see where the mask is going in the list as you do it.
Actually, I haven't worked out why the Edit Magic Node dialogue needs to be different from the Magic Nodes Settings dialogue.

Thanks. Got to go now. All the best, speak soon.

[ZvezdanD]

Even just to take us over to that next drop-down would help.

What do you mean by this? Do you want to transfer a keyboard focus to the next dropdown control? You need to click on that dropdown to choose specific field anyway. Only improvement could be if the script automatically select some field from that list, but as I said I don't know which filed should be used for functions other than Count.

You can't see where the mask is going in the list as you do it.

You could see it if you use Export/Import dialog and its Up/Down buttons, but as I said in that case you need to click on that buttons for every move, which is really boring for long movements.

Actually, I haven't worked out why the Edit Magic Node dialogue needs to be different from the Magic Nodes Settings dialogue.

Well, its name is telling everything. With it you could "Edit" some mask, but not Add/Delete/Move masks. You get that dialog by click on the number of some specific mask in the Export/Import dialog or by right-click on specific node in the tree panel. So, this means that you want to edit just that selected node/mask, not to add new node or to remove that selected node (there is another option for deleting node if you use right-click on node). If you have some another suggestion about that, please let me know.

[ZvezdanD]

There is a new release of this script (2.2.3). Thanks to MM3 monkey to all reports and suggestions.

[MM3 monkey]

I love that you've taken my suggestion about Count(All) even further. I just made a long mask and forgot to put in the Statistic fields. I wen back in ... and out again in seconds, fully updated. Coool!! Thank you very much, Z-Dandy.

Sorry when I don't answer all your questions - sometimes my brain fills up or I just think I'll confuse the issue further. I will keep you posted.

Did I tell you yet: I love Magic Nodes.

[unnicorn_here]

Hello,

Is it possible to multiply the avg rating and the count of songs and display it against each artist as a value....

So suppose an artist has 8 songs with avg rating of 4 on expanding the node it should display
Artist - 32

Thanks

[Big_Berny]

Hello,

Is it possible to multiply the avg rating and the count of songs and display it against each artist as a value....

So suppose an artist has 8 songs with avg rating of 4 on expanding the node it should display
Artist - 32

Thanks

Don't know how to make such a node but IMHO what you mean is just the sum of the ratings of all songs. Maybe it's easier to createa node this way...

[ZvezdanD]

Is it possible to multiply the avg rating and the count of songs and display it against each artist as a value...

It is not currently possible, but I think Big_Berny is right - you just need to use Sum function, for example:

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My node\<Artist|Statistic:Sum(Rating)>

Maybe you want to display wighted ratings, i.e. something like: Sum(SongLength * Rating) / Sum(SongLength)? Well, as I said... not now.

[unnicorn_dumb]

Yes that was dumb ....thanks guys

[nynaevelan]

Hi ZvezDanD:

I need some assistance again, is it possible to create a node like this except using the original year?

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<Group|Name:Album Info>\Decade Released\<Decade>\<Year>\<Album Artist>\<Album>

Nyn

[ZvezdanD]

Well, instead of <Year> you should use <Original Year>, but there are not <Original Decade>. However, if you don't mind to get only 3 digits for captions of decades, you could try this:

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<Group|Name:Album Info>\Decade Released\<Original Year|Trim:3>\<Original Year>\<Album Artist>\<Album>

[nynaevelan]

Thank you, that is closer than what I was getting.

Nyn

[justin_f]

Perhaps someone here can help me wrap my head around this node I'm working on. I have it working, but in a pretty inelegant manner, and I was hoping to clean it up a bit. What I have is a node called "Best of...", and underneath that I have All-Time, Artist, and Year. My problem is the year node. Currently I have this:

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<Group|name:Best of ...|Show Tracks:no|icon:33>\<Group|name:Year|Show Tracks:no|icon:2>\<Group|name:2008|Show Tracks:no|icon:2>\Albums|Filter:<Grouping> Like '%Albums - 2008%'|Child of:Library|icon:16\<Album|Unknown:No>

and that gives me this:



The problem becomes keeping them straight , because for each year the node is named Albums, i.e. I have three nodes named Album based on the picture above (1997, 2007, 2008). I'm trying to think of a better way to keep them straight, such as using the release year instead of manually creating the year group, but I can't figure out how to accomplish it, while getting the same result. Anyone have any suggestions on how to modify the node settings in a better fashion?

Justin