Database: Browse by genre>album?

[ki]

Hi
I'm wondering if there is a way to browse the database through genre and then another sub field other than artist?
I want to be able to go: genre>album instead of genre>artist.

On the apple firmware you can achieve this by browsing: genre> artist [ALL] > album.
By choosing ALL from artist, it is possible to effectively browse by album instead of artist as a sub field of genre.

Can something like that be achieved in rockbox?

thanks

[GodEater]

Do a search in the wiki for the tagnavi syntax...

[ki]

Thanks. I found the database info you referred me to and have been trying to mess around with it, but im afraid its a bit beyond me.

I tried to do it like this:


%menu_start "custom_album" "Browse albums"
"All albums by genre" -> genre -> album -> title = "f_browse"


but it didnt do anything.
I'll keep trying

[ki]

ok I got it working by changing it to "custom"

But what I really want to do is from the database menu, choose genre and select a genre, then in the next menu it shows all the artists listed for that genre (as it does by default), but the first entry I want to have a function to change to browse the genre by album. And the first entry of albums should let me switch to browse by year.

Any clue how I can do this?

thanks

[bzavala]

if you want to display the artists after you select the Genre, do:

"All albums by genre" -> genre -> artist -> album -> title = "f_browse"

[shoe]

But what I really want to do is from the database menu, choose genre and select a genre, then in the next menu it shows all the artists listed for that genre (as it does by default), but the first entry I want to have a function to change to browse the genre by album. And the first entry of albums should let me switch to browse by year.

The thing is, on a given screen if you are listing all the artists of a genre, that is all you can have in that list, you cant mix the list of artists with another menu item.  

You would have to make seperate menus
    "genre by artist" -> genre -> artist -> album -> title = "f_browse"
and
    "genre by album"->genre -> album -> title = "f_browse"