[planetmarshall]

I'm interested in improving Classical Music support in XBMC (specifically, adding support for the 'Composer' tag). I haven't worked on XBMC before, and would appreciate some pointers on how to get started. I gather this isn't achievable with an addon or skin.

Cheers,
Andrew.

[ironic_monkey]

start by getting build env going on your preferred platform.

then you want to dabble in xbmc/music/tags/MusicInfoTag to add vars to hold the value, in xbmc/music/tags/TagLoaderTaglib (most likely) to read the value,
and xbmc/music/MusicDatabase to store it. then you can think about adding a node in xbmc/filesystem/MusicDatabaseDirectory and finally support for it in the smart playlist env, the json queries etc.

[planetmarshall]

Cheers - have forked the repo on Github and will take a look at your suggestions. Will post here if I make any progress.

Andrew.

[Chuck Bartowski]

Glad to see someone tyring to work on this - i would love support for composer tag for my extensive classical collection

[ironic_monkey]

please 'me too' outside the dev forums!