Slightly off-topic but what i'd really love to have is the MusicBrainz tagger built into myth-music!!!
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:18:59 +0100, Tako Schotanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Armstrong wrote: > > > > > > >>>> I've got at least 500 CDs that I intend to rip (not sure what > >>>> that'll be > >>>> in gigs)... I've got around 200 albums already as ogg and the current > >>>> interface isn't bad but it is getting a little unwieldy. > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> How is it unwieldy? People whine and moan about it, but I've not > >>> seen one description of either a) how it's bad, or b) how to make it > >>> better that would actually work with a remote control. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Well, for me there are 5 things that would make it already a lot more > >> usable: > >> > >> 1. Have something like splitartist that includes album names. > >> Especially usefull if you have a lot of albums with various artists > >> but even so, believe it or not, I often can remember album names > >> without knowing exactly the artist name. > >> > >> 2. Have an "all" item in the splitartist that will contain all > >> artists for those times that you're just browsing. (in combination > >> with #1 it might be usefull to have an "all artists" and "all albums") > >> > >> 3. Have multiple levels for splitartist (again to be combined with #1 > >> and #2 if possible of course) because some letters still have so many > >> items in them that scrolling around in them still is difficult. > >> > >> 4. Make it so that the option "list as shuffled" has no effect on the > >> "all my music" entry. I like seeing what is next but I always have > >> this option turned off because it makes the "all my music" entry > >> impossible to browse through. > >> > >> 5. Have some kind of menu where you could select things like: "play > >> current album" and "play current artist" which would mean clearing > >> the curent playlist and setting it to the current album or artist. > >> > >> No spectacular changes as you can see, just things that would make > >> life a bit more pleasant :-) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> -Tako > >> > >> > > I think a start would be to have a similar interface that the 'Find > > Programs' uses where there is a column of 0-9 and A-Z that would speed > > up searching for the Artist. > > I agree that both should use a similar system. Which one I leave to > others to decide, but both of them definitely need multiple levels :-) > > If there's currently one screen I really never use it's Find Programs > because selecting one letter still leaves me with a zillion entries. > > I'm still thinking that we should have a alpha-num on-screen keyboard > for thess kind of things, kind of like you have for console games where > you can enter your name when you get a high score. Then both the Find > Programs and the Artist/Album screens could just have a simple text box > where you can enter the first characters of the item you are looking > for. The list would be updated each time you enter a letter. > > If the keyboard is implemented as a pop-up whenever the text box gets > focus it would save a lot of screen real-estate. I imagine it would also > be easier to implement (otherwise the space for the keyboard would have > to be designed into each screen that uses it). > > How about that idea? > > -Tako > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev >
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