Bugzilla – Bug 3457
feature request: Browser UI to display content of txt and image files.
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:23:57 UTC
Here's the situation: I have a lot (>200 GB) of live music shows in flac format (not all of which have been thoroghly tagged yet), the flacs in a folder which also contains a .txt file of info about the show. Or I have flac'd some commercial CDs and wish to preserve some of the liner note content which might not be appropriate for the flac comments of individual tracks, so I have a .txt file in the folder for that album. From within the Slimserver Web interface, perhaps only when "Browsing Music Folder", I want to be able to inspect these .txt files. It seems this should be easy to implement, as a web browser by default will try to display the contents of a .txt file that is clicked on, so the Web UI only needs to be changed to display these files in the interface. I don't think this needs to be accessible from the Squeezebox/remote interface. I don't like to read scrolling text.
While we're at it, the browser UI should be able, at least in a new tab or window, any file, image, etc, that browsers are commonly able to display. This would solve the problem of not being able to view more than one image as cover art for an album. Just list these in Browse Music Folder view and handle them as the browser normally would. Though I'm no programmer, this seems like it would be a relatively easy enhancement.
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