tagnavi question

[jwhendy]

I believe this would be the appropriate forum...

I rarely ever use anything to browse my database other than by artist, then album (or all), then by song. I don't generally use playlists either. For this reason, and partially just because I like the satisfaction of customizing something myself that I didn't used to be able to customize, I wondered how to make the root menu simply show all artists, from A-Z. I've tried pointing %root_menu to the "custom_artist" menu, but I can't get it to display anything other than "A", "B", "C", etc.

What I want essentially is the functionality of the [browse by] "Artist" functionality of the main menu:

"Artist" -> artist -> album -> title = "fmt_title"
 
but without actually having to select Artist, which, if it's the only option present, is kind of pointless. I just want to go directly to '-> artist' if that makes sense.

I read through the wiki on the tagnavi syntax and did find a lot of helpful facts about how to filter using the various tags and conditions, etc. but not anything regarding how to skip the initial menu selection altogether and (essentially) replace a sub-menu with my main menu.

Any thoughts?


Thanks!
John

[bascule]

I've just been experimenting and I don't think it is possible. You have to have a default menu of some sort, be it the built-in one, or a custom one and I can't hack the syntax of the tagnavi file to make it jump directly to the first filter selection, no matter what I do...

The best solution is just creating a tagnavi_custom.config file (as below) with only your entry in it, but it seems you may have got to that point already...

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#! rockbox/tagbrowser/2.0
# ^ Version header must be the first line of every file

%menu_start "custom1" "custom1" 
"Artist" -> artist   -> album  -> title = "fmt_title"

%root_menu "custom1"

# EOF

[jwhendy]

I appreciate the effort! You seem to have run into the same thing indeed. If this isn't possible I will probably just go the route you suggest - for now I just have some things commented out so that I could experiment around a bit.

I know that I'm directed to create a tagnavi_custom.config vs. changing the tagnavi.config itself because it will be overwritten (I'm assuming that this is a warning regarding updating Rockbox builds? Would anything else overwrite the tagnavi file?). My question is does the firmware look for a tagnavi_custom first and if it is not found, revert to tagnavi? Or is there somewhere where I need to point Rockbox to the custom file I create?


Thanks!
John

[bascule]

Only unzipping a firmware update will overwrite tagnavi.config, but they happen frequently and a lot of people like to keep up-to-date.

The tagnavi.config already automatically looks for for the tagnavi_custom.config file (the line %include "/.rockbox/tagnavi_custom.config").

All you need to do is copy and paste the above code into a text editor, save it as tagnavi_custom.config and copy it to the /.rockbox directory.