Suggestion List under Venue

[djunod]

for kj_rotation, the soID values are always negative numbers...

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<key>soID</key>
<integer>-14996</integer>

[dave]

take it out of NSNumber as SInt32, then cast it to UInt32 and you'll be fine.

[djunod]

I tried that, it didn't work... can give it another shot. [edit]yeah, I had tried that, it didn't work.[/edit]

The others aren't like that.

[dave]

sorry, try UInt16, you'll get "50450" for that example? if that works, go for it.

[djunod]

That's not the issue:

real soID = 902425, rotation soID = -15079
real soID = 902674, rotation soID = -14830
real soID = 902594, rotation soID = -14910

[dave]

crap, the number is being truncated. okay, mefixy

[djunod]

The Rogue works... Thanks

[dave]

[DeusExMachina]

Back to the O.P., dunno about per venue, but couldn't you just make a playlist that was the library sorted by "times sung"?
(Making it more manageable with either a cut off minimal value for # sung, or alternately, a max number for the playlist.)

[dave]

yes, that's entirely possible. DaveJ, would that interest you?

[djunod]

Sure, that works as it is pretty easy for everybody... most KJ's aren't going to spend time going through to come up with a list of popular songs.

[dave]

OK. here's my thinking. I'm going to enable a way for the KJ to specify "public playlist" on any playlist. I'll then create the "recent" smart playlist (most recently added 200 songs), and add that in, and also add the Rotation playlist in, and in addition, the KJ can then create their own lists and add them in. then, with a new command, you can request the "list of public playlists" (to which Rotation and Recent will automatically be added). Then you can present that list however you wish. note: i probably won't get to this right away.

[DeusExMachina]

Assuming one is #sung.

[dave]

are you asking for the "# Sung" sort column to be added to the columns that are shown in the web client?

[DeusExMachina]

For me personally, it doesn't really matter, but for the purposes of this thread, to implement the "Popular tracks listing", you would have to have that be one of the "Smart Playlists", at least how I was envisioning the solution to the issue. Either that, or have the host just do it by hand.
I was picturing it happening on the fly, automagically, i.e. a playlist that automatically included the top x=say 200 tracks based on # sung from the library. Alternately, the list would have all tracks sung more than x=say 5 times.

Something like that.
Just a quick hack to get you a "Most popular" feature.

Personally, I'd like "Comments" or some such field made accessible, to allow patrons to submit potential updates to tracks, say, noting that a track is a duet, or some such, to take some of that metadata burden of the host. Sort of a wiki for your Library.