Ok, so I looked into some of the community plugins for Obsidian and started playing around with dataview, so far I’ve set up a music library of sorts.
Anyway, I basically made some templates for Albums and Artists, and wrote some dataview queries to organize everything, didn’t get a chance to fiddle around with css and js, but for now this will have to do.
So I made the following templates for Artist and Album.
The following is the query in the Artist page:
TABLE ("![]("+Cover+")") as Cover FROM "Personal/Catalog/Music/Albums" WHERE Artist=this.Alias SORT Year desc
So basically, the Album is just an empty(for now) markdown file with metadata, the Artist template on the otherside contains a dataview query for displaying all of the Albums by that Artist/Band and the cover of those albums. I snuck the Alias metadata just to make the queries a bit easier.
For each template I made a shortcut using the QuickAdd plugin from the Obsidian community plugins, so now I only have to press CMD+P (atleast on Mac), type Add New Album, and it creates a note suing the Album template and adds it directly in the Albums folder, and same goes for Artist also.
And here are some examples:
Then by coming up with some simple dataview queries I made a simple overview sorta page.
These are the queries:
LIST FROM "Personal/Catalog/Music/Artists"
TABLE Artist, Year, Genre, Format, Vinyl, ("[Spotify]("+Spotify+")") as Online FROM "Personal/Catalog/Music/Albums" SORT Artist ASC
I’m very interested in looking up about how to do metadata binding.
I will probably hold on a bit more, before diving in deeper with Obsidian, because I have a lot of stuff to do and an AI engine to code, so yeah…
🐊 See ya later gators!