[mythtv] Suggestions för additions to MythMusic

[thor]

On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 am, Henrik (Mauritz) Johnson wrote:

> 1. Better handling of albums. This includes support for albumcovers

	This would be great. Lots of people have asked for it, just haven't had time 
to deal with it. You'd probably need to rework the default theme to figure 
out where to put the cover, and possibly add a user option to see the small 
viz or album cover (or both?).



> 2. Better handling of genres and random playing. In my previous media
> player I used (BTW, GlobeCom Jukebox which I was the original author of)
> you can specify the weight of genres in the random selection. 

	This is easy to do ... have a look at how smart lists are already calculated, 
add some settings widgets for genre weightings and make a new sorting 
category (Weighted ?). If you get confused about where the actual sorting is 
occuring and how next() happens, you need to look at the GenericTree object 
in libmyth.

>
> 3. Support for music videos. Although these are video, the main thing in
> them is the music and I think they should be organizable under the music
> player with the visualization window replaced with the actual video.
>

	This sould be exceedingly difficult, as you're dealing with arbitrary video 
file types/codecs/etc. You'd either need to convince mplayer to render itself 
frameless at exactly the right size and position or write a native video 
player (which would be superb, but rather a lot of work).

- thor