There’s a high chance that you’ve stumbled upon one of these before:
This is called a dashboard, a sort of home tab that music streaming services make use of a lot. Here you have shortcuts to your favorite artists, playlists, albums, etx. You get the idea.
What I’m trying to do
I’m using Obsidian to create my very own database. A place where you can play games, watch movies, listen to music, read books and many other things, directly from here. Luckily for me it has turned out pretty neat, it’s a system that “just works”, as Todd Howard would say
I’ve been a collector of diverse media all my life, and now I’ve finally found a piece of software that lets me enhance my experience.
Now, I have over 15k tracks on my database; all of them include complete metadata and related info, like personal playlists and record labels. As you can see, the content isn’t the problem, but rather how to properly make use of it. I’ve already managed to transform Obsidian into a sort of streaming device for everything, from a game launcher to a Netflix-like platform, but it’s still missing it’s core component: a music player.
Things I have tried
I’ve tried the Soundscapes plugin which is awesome, but my collection is big enough to make it worthless since I can’t exactly choose what I want to listen. Reminds me why I stopped using Mp3s years ago. I will keep on using it tho because it’s really impressive, a big thanks and kudos to Andrew McGivery for such a plugin, but sadly it’s not what I’m looking for atm. (I know this has nothing to do with dashboards, but it’s the closest thing to a music player I’ve found).
I’ve also tried with tables. I’m always creating all sorts of tables. Together with the Sheets Extended plugin I managed to give it a proper dashboard shape, but the content will always be the same unless I edit it; i.e. it’s not dynamic, and if it’s not dynamic then it’s pointless.
I would like to know if there’s a way to make it dynamic, to have new content every time I reload the page. (Also shoutout to the Refresh Preview plugin, cause it does exactly what it says and its extremely useful).
It’s not as easy as a random note picker unless I can define its folder parameters; since it’s a dashboard I’m linking notes into images, so whenever you click an album’s cover art it opens the album’s note. This means that — in case there’s something that lets me achieve this — the “random album” note should be displayed with its proper cover art.
PS: I’m not interested in Dataview at all, but if it solves my problem then I’m all in for it.
I hope this mess makes sense… thank you all in advance