How to create plex Artist style menu?

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Hello all,

I am new to channel development and have run into a problem:

How in the world do you structure a page to look like the plex Artist pages?

Screenshot ![post-124319-0-59394300-1371821663.png|690x458](upload://dwUWHxLvOYApubgHF71svd35xtM.png)

 

I uncovered this post where someone created a Channel to show all files marked as Trash but unfortunately it did not work properly for music.

I have so far fixed it so that it show the Artists with marked files but upon clicking one of these it shows all of that artists albums and if you drill down again it shows all of that albums files.

Instead, I want to manually build an artist view page (see pic above) that will only show the albums with trashed files and ONLY the songs that have been trashed.

 

 

Any direction you give me I greatly appreciate.

 

*EDIT*

A better format for this questions is as follows:

What MediaContainer properties and items do I need to use and what structure must they be in to produce the page above?

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I may be stating the obvious here, but have you tried using the ArtistObject() to return the results? http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/api/objectkit.html#metadata-objects

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I may be stating the obvious here, but have you tried using the ArtistObject() to return the results? http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/api/objectkit.html#metadata-objects

Thanks for your reply!

I figured the ArtistObject would only serve as a precursor to the page pictured above?

Meaning, I would populate the initial music page with a MediaContainer of ArtistObjects which would than link to a function to produce the page pictured above. My question is, what MediaContainer properties and items do I need to use and what structure must they be in to produce the page above?

Remember, I need this to ONLY show the tracks that are trash so an artist could have 10 albums and 100 songs but only one of those songs could be marked as trash. This should produce a page with One album of which, will only have one song.

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I have not worked with music channels enough to be helpful to you. Someone who has worked with music channels can help you more.

But, I was thinking that you could possibly use the ArtistObjects as an ending object. Use a DirectoryObject for each album, individual song or music video that contains two ending object containers (or one ending in ArtistObject and one going to a list of songs for albums). One object (a TrackObject, AlbumObject or VideoClipObject) that directs you to the list of songs on an album, plays the song,  or plays the music video and another ArtistObject that would produce the page above. And you would just give them titles like Play Song and Artist Information.

This wouldn't produce a clickable album song list, I do not think that is how the structure of channels work. But it could give you the Artist info for each song.

Again, I am talking in theory,

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Hello,

I spent all day trying to show an Artist Page from a channel but without any success.

Can you tell me if you find the right structure to produce the page above ?

Thanks

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Love to know if anyone has had some success with this.

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