Re: [mythtv] MythMusic GUI changes

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:32:33 -0800

Having my library organized with iTunes (iPod sync), I use the following tag structure:
  • Title - movement name and number (ex - "I. Allegro")
  • Artist - performer (orchestra for orchestral works, soloist for solo works)
  • Composer - composer
  • Album - Work
  • Grouping - Album Name
  • Track number - movement number
  • BPM - opus number
  • Comments - mainly includes conductor, soloist (for orchestral works such as concerti) or accompanist (for x+piano works)
I find using that structure just makes everything work properly for both sorting in iTunes and on my iPod.  If Mythmusic could utilize such a structure it would not be short of amazing.  Some heirarchies that could work:
  • Composer - Album - Title (sorted by track number)
  • Artist - Composer - Album - Title
  • Composer - Album (sorted by BPM) - Title
Just a suggestion, but I think it would work well.  Maybe an option somewhere to figure between popular and classical view?

Justin

On 1/2/06, Wendy Seltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd be happy to help test, as many of these features would be useful to me.  (Incidentally, I too have a mainly classical collection, but I've coopted the tags so Artist=Composer, Album=Work, and Title=Performers, after munging tracks together so each work is a single file.)

--Wendy


On 1/2/06, Justin Cherniak < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul, I'm wondering if it would be possible to add an additional view, for us classical music listeners.  Namely, a Composer list.  I personally have my music library managed by iTunes where I used almost every tag available, however being able to browse by composer would be absolutely wonderful (the artist tag contains the performer, which isn't very useful to browse by).

Thanks in advance,
Justin

On 1/2/06, Paul Volkaerts < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi;
 
I have been working on some GUI improvements in MythMusic -- its coming along ok & hopefully will finish before my holidays do, so wanted to check firstly that the owner of this code does not object and secondly that I'm not repeating what someone else is doing.
 
The look and feel has not changed much; but as a taster -- here is what I have so far.
 
1. I've built several views into the tree. By default you see the "Active Play Queue" but at full width (equivelant to show-whole-tree being false) because I don't like the way that you lose 1/4 of the screen when show-whole-tree is enabled.   Up and down work as before but left and right cycle between
        Active playlist
        Artist list
        Genre list
        Playlist list
        Search facility
 
2. In any of these screens you can use up/down/select to browse the catalog, browsing into Artists/Albums etc as you wish
 
3. In any of these screens hitting PLAY will play that item (e.g. on an artist plays everything by that artist etc).
 
4. The search facility lets you type a few characters and it lists all the artists that match.  To do this, I implemented a new Myth widget called a MythKeyboard, which shows you a picture of a keyboard and lets you use up/down/left/right/select to type.  For good measure I have also attached this to MythLineEdit and MythRemoteLineEdit types, so hitting MENU in any text input field now displays a keyboard.
 
5. Some suprtficial changes - adding icons, and a few minor changes to the theme (removing the play,ffwd icons to make the artwork bigger), though there is no code changes there, just theme.
 
 
Paul

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