album rating

abrazor · Post by **abrazor** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:14 am

Sorry, I am dumb when it comes to this kind of thing. Can someone help me? I want a script for my custom field - Album Rating, where I have rated albums with a number from 1 to 10. Where It shows Rating/Album (Album Artist), in descending order for rating and alphabetic for album titles. How do I do it, or can someone do one for me???

abrazor · Post by **abrazor** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:16 am

I am using magic nodes.

Octopod · Post by **Octopod** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:16 am

Pablo's MagicNodes script should be able to do this.
Check here:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3358

abrazor · Post by **abrazor** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:26 am

Octopod,

Thanks, but I looked there and also tried modifying the scripts there to work for me but I honest to god can`t do it. I don`t understand when to use | or / and what wording to use to make a directory or set ranking or order or position . . . I am good at using a computer but when it comes to such a "Logical" task as this I just fall apart!

sadao · Post by **sadao** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:27 am

Try using:

Album Rating\<Album Rating|sort order:desc>\<Album|sort order:asc>

In magic nodes 1.2. Make sure that your Custom field is titled 'Album Rating'

The '\' represents the levels of the nodes:

Album Rating \ -> Level 1
<album rating> \ -> Level 2
<album> -> Level 3

The '|' are used to separate qualifiers within each node level:

<album rating|qualifier 1|qualifier 2>

Check out pablo's documentation for more info.

abrazor · Post by **abrazor** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:44 am

thank you Sadao!!! It works, except that 10 is below 1 - 9 so I must use 01 etc probably. How can I have the album artist in brackets next to the album title?

sadao · Post by **sadao** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:00 am

abrazor wrote:thank you Sadao!!! It works, except that 10 is below 1 - 9 so I must use 01 etc probably

That's right. The issue is that custom fields are text instead of numeric.

How can I have the album artist in brackets next to the album title?

I don't know how to do this, or whether it even can be done. @Pablo?

Pablo · Post by **Pablo** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:52 pm

Re custom fields: they are text fields so they are sorted as text. I've requested adding numeric custom fields in this thread: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3493 . If you think it's a good idea let the developers know by posting in that thread

(for Magic Nodes using 01 etc would solve the problem, but numeric custom fields could be used more flexibly in autoplaylists).

How can I have the album artist in brackets next to the album title?

That's not currently possible

, but it will be considered for future releases.

Post by **Peke** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:43 pm

Pablo,
When checking for Custom fields why dont you use simple check for 1-9 and from 10=>?

Code: Select all

If len(Album rating) < 2 then
  album rating = "0"+album rating

This will solve and correct problems, or I'm wrong?

Pablo · Post by **Pablo** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:44 pm

Peke wrote:Pablo,
When checking for Custom fields why dont you use simple check for 1-9 and from 10=>?
Code: Select all
If len(Album rating) < 2 then
  album rating = "0"+album rating
This will solve and correct problems, or I'm wrong?

The problem is that each person uses the custom fields in a different way. This would solve the problem for abrazor, but since custom fields are really text fields and that's how they're mostly used, a general script has to handle them in that way.

Hopefully future versions of MM will have numeric custom fields so this problem won't arise

.