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Audiobook howto - Oddsodz - 2011-01-31 19:50
Here is how to type your "album.nfo" file
PHP Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<album>
<mood>Fantasy</mood>
<review>Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry</review>
</album>
Download a copy here http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/album.nfo (right click and save as)
Just change what ever is inside the <review> lines
And place it here
![[Image: wheretoputnfo.jpg]](http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/wheretoputnfo.jpg)
Below is how I "id3 tag" my audio files
![[Image: audiobooktaggings.jpg]](http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/audiobooktaggings.jpg)
I Use MediaMonkey from http://www.mediamonkey.com
And here is what the end results look like
Album view
![[Image: audiobookalbum.png]](http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/audiobookalbum.png)
And the Track View
![[Image: audiobooktrack.png]](http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/audiobooktrack.png)
Hope this helps
- Oddsodz - 2011-01-31 19:57
KiSUAN Wrote:Also I could use 3 moree tags Style/Theme/Label to display additional info in the Audiobooks view if you want, let me know.
Maybe we could add the "label" field of the .nfo and have that represent the "Narrated/Read by" and add the artist name. In my case above it would be "Stephen Fry".
PHP Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<album>
<label>Stephen Fry</label>
<mood>Fantasy</mood>
<review>Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry</review>
</album>
- KiSUAN - 2011-02-01 00:40
Ok, done.
So, as for now, the template for the NFO and fields that are used are this:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<album>
<title>Title shown in View, usually fill with name of the Book/Collection</title>
<artist>Writer</artist>
<genre>Audiobook (this field is taged always audiobook so you can create the Album Smart Playlist</genre>
<mood>Genre</mood>
<review>Summary or Description of a Book/Collection</review>
<type>SubTitle shown in the View, usually fill with breakdown of books of a Collection or such</type>
<label>Person who Narrated/Read the book</label>
<rating>As you wish</rating>
<year>Year of published or Recorded, as you see fit</year>
</album>About soft for Id3tag I wouldn`t really recommend mediamokey, it has a ton of blotware, also tries to do to many things and doesn't end doing nothing really well, I would recommend File Renamer http://www.sherrodcomputers.com/products_filerenamer.cfm, that`s also useful to rename files beside id3tags to keep a proper structure indexation of your libraries.
I'm gonna update the first page now...
Enjoy
- KiSUAN - 2011-02-01 01:18
Update:
Merely a formality, Audio Book support is official within the skin and guide, first page updated with instructions/info.
Enjoy.
- Batemann - 2011-02-01 01:31
KiSUAN Wrote:Not yet, but will...
Cool! very Cool indeed.
- KiSUAN - 2011-02-01 01:36
Update:
-Separated Poster View for Programs now, with PosterPlus Option.
![[Image: screenshot000vp.jpg]](http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9858/screenshot000vp.jpg)
Enjoy.
- Oddsodz - 2011-02-01 01:50
updated the picture for you
![[Image: audiobookalbum1.png]](http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/audiobookalbum1.png)
http://oddsodz.com/xbmcdump/audiobookalbum1.png
- KiSUAN - 2011-02-01 02:14
Very nice, thanks.
- falafael - 2011-02-01 10:55
I'm loving the sound of this skin after reading 14 pages about it, one thing i would like to know before i install it is, presently am using confluence, i had night installed but the wife didn't like it because in the TV shows section, when you hover over it in confluence, it tells you how many you have watched and how many are unwatched, that way she can see if i have put up new episodes of a tv show without going into the actual tv show to look like you have to with nights.
Does this skin act like confluence does with tv shows or is it the same as nights?
Thanks!
- KiSUAN - 2011-02-01 12:48
As in Night you have "Show Recently added content at Home", so when you hover over a Menu (Music-Movies-Tv Shows) it shows the new things you added. Think that's better than watched/unwatched, you have to activate in Settings>Skin>Home Window. I think I could add a condition to only show things that are not watched or an icon to shown if it's watched already, that would be nice, will see tonight.