[mythtv] Re: Various useability grumblings

[Eric Thelin]

I agree with your comments about mythmusic having problems with large
music collections.  My complaint is that I have taken much time putting
my mp3s in logical directories.  But when mythmusic only seems to shows
the files by artist not file hierarchy.  This makes making the playlists
somewhat difficult.  My apologies if I am missing something.

Eric

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Jeff Gibson wrote:

> I've been using mythtv for about a year now, and I really like it.
> However, over that time I've noticed a couple of things.
>
> Mythmusic- It just doesn't seems to handle a large collection very
> well.  I've got my entire music collection ripping to mp3 (over 12,000
> songs) and I whenever a choose a significant percentage of them, myth
> starts having problems.  Most noticibly it will take several minutes for
> myth to go from one track to the next, esp. in random mode.  Needless to
> say mpg123 can handle a flat file of these songs maybe taking 1/10 of a
> second between them.  If I keep the playlist small there aren't any
> problems.  On the whole mythmusic seems sluggish, though.
>
> Mythgame- It would be *extremely* nice if we could specify our own
> options for the commands instead of relying on the menu-driven config.
> For example, xmame.xgl (xmame.sdl screws up nvtv and xmame.x11 doesn't
> scale well) will not work with the regular xmame options supplied by
> mythgame and I have to slaughter the source (I'm not a programmer) in
> order for it work correctly.  The same goes for the other emulators (I
> find zsnes vastly superior to snes9x).  If there was just a place in the
> GUI or database to override the command arguments (like mythvideo)
> things would be splendid.  Along with that would go the option to choose
> all games in a directory and not do the testing which seems to make half
> of the games (which work) not show up.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your time,
> JG
>
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