Album Overlay

[karaoke]

I am using Colby2 skin.

Is there a way to add "artist" to the Album overlay. This would help when looking at compilation albums where there are several artists on the album.

Thanks

[karaoke]

OK, I worked this out. Just added “. - %artist%” to the category line.

I have now tried to solve the same in the music search overlay.

Looking for, say, My Way” brings up (in my case) 4 My Ways. Again it would be good to have the artist displayed as well.
I have not been able to sort this out – any help appreciated.

Thanks

[marque]

I had this problem as well. What I did was rename all my files as trackname - artist.mp3, then in your music database add the line <sort>trackfilename</sort> and put it between the <sortable>tags.
Then in setup change "set filter track" event from "track" to "trackfilename".

It does the job but I'm not sure if it is the easyest way.

[karaoke]

Yes, this works fine.

I already had my mp3s named that way.
I did not find out how to add the line in the music database - perhaps you could tell me exactly where to look.
However, when I changed the "set filter track" it worked anyhow.
When you do it "correctly" does it include the file extension .mp3?

Cheers

[marque]

yes it does.

to edit the database go to you xlobby/databases directory right click on music.xml and select edit. add the line <sort>trackfilename</sort>, so it looks like this and save it:

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<sortorder>artist:albumname:tracknumber:trackfilename</sortorder>
<sortable>
<sort>artist</sort>
<sort>genre</sort>
<sort>year</sort>
<sort>trackname</sort>
<sort>albumname</sort>
<sort>trackfilename</sort>
</sortable>

[karaoke]

Thanks - everything working fine now.

[karaoke]

I have found another solution.
If you add the artist name to the title tag you can use the original search option.
This can easily be done using MP3/Tag Studio - http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/
Using this programme go to the tab “Direct tag manipulation” – enable “Advanced mode”. In the first option box in the centre of the window choose “<Title> - <Artist>” and in the ----> box choose <Title>. Voila, the artist has been added to the song title.
If you are a little bit nervous you can enable the “Preview Mode” box.

I have found this programme to be excellent for all aspects of mp3 tagging. As an unregistered copy it is free and without limitations.

[marque]

i am aware of this solution but i dont like adding the artist to the title tag becuse you will see that in cd details too. for tagging i use j river MC 11, wich is great for mass tagging and i use the macro featurefrom mp3tagstudio to edit new albums..
I think another solution is to use costum mp3 tags <nameartist> but i dont know how to import them into xlobby.

[karaoke]

I cannot seem to resolve this problem.
With the 2 music databases I am using everything works ok except that, when I try to access the track listing either by clicking on the album or from the search results the overlay that opens is the “normal” mp3 overlay – "overlay_albumtracks".
I have made a “Karaoke” overlay but cannot seem to access it from the search results.
I don’t appear to have the knowledge to solve this one.

[marque]

if i understand you right you have two databases on two seperate screens (music and karaoke) and you want to open the music albums on the "music_overlay" and the karaoke albums on the "karaoke_overlay".
is that right?

[karaoke]

Yes and no. I should maybe mention that I am using a tweaked Colby skin.

At the moment I am able to open the two screens. I can access 2 different search overlays.
When I have done an artist search in the Karaoke search overlay say for “Frank Sinatra” I would choose Frank Sinatra – this action takes me back to the main Karaoke screen with one album showing. Clicking on this album brings up an overlay "overlay_albumtracks" with all the tracks by Frank Sinatra. This overlay is the overlay associated from the original Music screen. It shows the “Frank Sinatra” listing so not a major problem but for karaoke I only want to show the trackname. This is why I want to show the new "overlay_karaokealbumtracks"

Thanks again for your interest in my problem.

[marque]

in eventmanager you proberly have an event called goto:overlay_albumtracks with an command: open overlay and variable:overlay_albumtacks.
This will be the event assigned to both you music and karaoke categorys, so you have to make an new event called goto:overlay_karaokealbumtracks with an command: open overlay and variable:overlay_karaokealbumtacks and in your skin editor assingn it to the category on your overlay_karaokealbumtracks screen.
I hope it helps you!

[karaoke]

Thanks,
That seems to have sorted it.
Sometimes I feel a little stupid asking some of these questions but I do try for a long time to sort it myself before posting. I would like to give a global thank you to all who are helping me.

[marque]

Hey, do you think i learnt it by my self, I´m glad i can do something back!

[Colby]

It has been fun to watch you two troubleshoot this, Great job! You did it a different way than I would have, but its good to see it works.