[mythtv] Re: [PATCH] Add smart playlists to mythmusic

[Paul]

Wendy wrote:

Hi Wendy

>Thanks Paul,

Your welcome. Glad to get some feedback.

>This feature is great fun -- and very useful in a classical
>collection. Am I missing the UI for adding categories, too? (for
>now, of course, using mysql directly does the trick).

You can add, rename or delete categories by pressing the little
button next to the category combo at the top of the main smart playlist
editor screen.

>As a general feature, I'd love to build on this one to display search
>results as options for the "select music" or "play music" screens,
>without putting them into a playlist per se. For example, search
>music for recordings featuring Yo-Yo Ma, then select one or a few to
>add to the temporary "active" playlist. If no one else is thinking
>along these lines, I'll see if I can dig into the code.

I can see how this would be useful. I'll give it some thought.
One of the next things I might work on is a better way to browse
large music collections that will allow you to filter/search long
lists of artist/albums/tracks etc. That is unless someone else beats me to
it.
It is something that a few people have said they might work on something
similar. I haven't got past thinking about it yet!

>--Wendy


>At 4:20 PM +0000 1/31/05, Paul wrote:
>>This patch allows you to create playlists that are dynamically updated
>>every time you select one by running a simple SQL query on the
>>musicmetadata table. It allow you to, for example, create a playlist
>>that contains all the tracks by a particular artist, all your favourite
>>tracks, all the tracks from a genre etc. You can also create an order by
>>clause which allows you to order the tracks how you like and limit the
>>number of tracks in a playlist. Playlists can be grouped together by
>>category. You could for example create categories called 'By Artist',
>>'By Genre' etc. that way you don't get one big list of playlists but
>>several playlist grouped together by a category. The patch adds a few
>>demo smartplaylists to get you started.

Paul