v3.3.1 upgrade

[jbinkley60]

I completed my upgrade yesterday from Mezzmo 2.7 1 to 3.3.1. So far things are working pretty good and I like many of the new features. I've run into 3 items so far that I'll need some support help with.

1. The Album/Artist field has been removed from the properties tab for video files. I suspect that probably shouldn't have been there in v2.7.1 but I had used it for a Smart playlist and now with it no longer available I can't add files to the playlist. I basically was using it as a user definable field in the database and the Smart playlist said if Album/Artist field contains xyz add it to the playlist.

So my question is was this omitted in 3.3.1 by error or it was intentional and I will now have attributes in the database for these video files that can't be accessed ? It isn't a big deal but this got me to thinking about a really valuable feature for Mezzmo for user definable attributes that we could use any way we want but would primarily be used for Smart playlists. So maybe have each file have up to 3 user definable fields and we could use them in Smart playlists. We could even use those for getting rid of noisy words. Example if userdef1 does not contain "the" . For the noisy wod videos we put "the" in the userdef1 attribute field. There are many other possibilities here. I used album/artist for creating personal favorites for my wife and I.

2. Playlist processing has gotten slower but my database has grown significantly in size from around 200meg to 800meg. I did a compact and it shrunk slightly. This isn't a big deal exccept I have a system task that when processing changes shows "Processing Active Playlists 5 Remaining" that will be on the screen for many minutes before dissappearing. I'll grab some logs and mail them off. It didn't fo this with 2.7.1.

3. The Samsung F profile won't work with my new Samsung UN46F6300AF TV. The TV starts to load the video files, sticks on loading and then eventually gives up and powers off. If I switch the TV to the Netgear NEO-550 profile it loads them quickly, plays videos fine but I don't have any FF/RW or pause controls. I'll zip up some logs with the Samsung F profile hanging and mail them off. I'll also play with the profile a bit to see which attribute is causing it to hang.