The Music Support plugin enables the ability to show and play your Music on your computer, directly from within Media Browser.

• You can get the plugin here.
• Plugin Installation instructions can be found here

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Configuration options

After you've downloaded and installed the plugin, there are a few things you need to configure.

On the Plugins tab, highlight the Music Support plugin and click the Configure button. A new window will appear.

General

Image used for songs

• You can specify a particular image to is shown for each song as artwork.
• Blank by default.

Show popup on OK button for songs

• You can specify whether to show the play popup when pushing OK.
• True by default.

Playlist

Enabled

• Enables a playlist folder.
• Enabled by default.

Playlist folder name

• The name of the playlist folder shown in the collection if enabled.
• _Playlists by default.

Tag options

Read ID3 Tags

• Enabling this will make the Music Support show the information contained in ID3 tags instead of file names.
• Disabled by default.

Song name format

• You can choose how the song information is shown based on ID3 tags.
• {track}–{title} by default.

Use embedded tag information for song

• Instead of using the “Image used for songs”, the Music Support plugin will retrieve the embedded artwork and show that as the song image.
• Disabled by default.

Library

Enabled

• Enabling this will activate the Music Support plugin.
• Required
• Disabled by default.

Name

• The name that is shown for the Music Support library on the Enhanced Home Screen.
• Required
• Music Library by default.

Music Path

• The folder location on your system that is to be used by the Music Support plugin.
• Required
• C:\Music by default.

Image used for Library

• The icon that is shown on the Enhanced Home Screen for the Music Support plugin.
• Blank by default.

Note: you can also set an icon for this plugin by utilizing the ImagesByName\General folder. In that case you will need to create subfolder named identically as the “Name” setting in the configuration options (“Music Library” by default) and place a folder.jpg in it. For more details have a look here and here

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How it works

In general, in order for the music plugin not to “break” existing functionality if there is a avi or any video file in the music folder it is seen as a “movie”.

Also the plugin will deal with backdrop and folder images as MB does currently. Having said this it wont use the folder image to display as the album cover while playing. For this it uses the image on the ID3 tag. We suggest you use a 3rd party program to save the folder.jpg into the ID3 tag.

As part of the options you can enable a playlist folder in the base folder. This is a special folder where Windows Media Player saves the playlists that it (you) create. This you will see if you view the queue, there is an option to save the playlist. If you save it and go look in the enabled playlist folder it should be there.

With regards to playlists, there is an ability to queue folders/songs and as per existing functionality you can play the whole folder. Just push play on the folder/song and a menu will appear. This is however no possible with all remotes.

Currently the plugin will only consider the following as “music”:

• m4a
• mp3
• m3u
• wma
• acc
• flac
• wpl
• wav

Below is an example of how this can look.

Please note: The image is a preview of the upcoming Simplicity theme by Craigt and that it isn’t available at this time.

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Extender support

In order to use the Music Support Plugin on an extender, you need to add the following extensions to “Extender Formats” list in the Configurator. (Advanced > Extender + iso > Extender Formats)

• mp3
• m3u
• wma
• wpl
• wav

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Additional information

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