[mythtv-users] MythMusic -how do you organize your music?

[Thomas]

Stephen,

thanks a lot for your answer. It contains a lot of good thoughts. The 
most important hint to me is the "directory" setting for browsing. I 
simply overlooked it all the time I have spent in the settings...

Naming the files correctly is quite easy: I am using a Mac as my "main" 
computer and there are some great scripts for iTunes that rename files 
using a given schema. I then copy the files over to the Linux box. For 
sure there are similar tools for PCs.

Just as you I think symbolic links are less confusing than hard ones. I 
will try to set some up to get even more comfort choosing my music.

So now I will happily organize my files...


Am 14.07.2004 um 15:10 schrieb Stephen Tait:

> I do kinda what you do. My music collection predates Myth by about 3 
> years.
>
> CD's are grouped by generic genre - Indie, Rock, Drum 'n' Bass, 
> Electronica, etc etc. Each of these sections is full of artists, and 
> theres also a "compilation" folder which, er, compilations for that 
> genre go into.
>
> As far as Myth goes, this is mounted from the file server via SMB, and 
> MythMusic is configured to use the "directory" schema, so I can just 
> select one or more of my "genre" folders and just play on random 
> whatever genre I'm wanting to listen to at the time. The directory 
> schema essentially means that your music appears as if you'd browsed 
> into it through a file manager.
>
> All 60GB or so worth of tracks have been extensively renamed and 
> retagged so that they all follow the same filename schema, namely:
>
> /home/share/music/$genre/$artist/$album name/'track number leading 
> zero' - '$artist' - '$track name' - '$album name'.ext
>
> Boy, did that take a long time to do. Single track things (like dance 
> mixes taped off the radio) are given a 00 track number.
>
> I've experimented by using hard/soft links so that music can appear in 
> two places at once, but I found this too confusing :) I do use a 
> symlink though so that my music videos (in the "Misc" section of my 
> music store) are visible in the "video" directory on the file server, 
> so that MythVideo can play them. There's been talk of a feature 
> request to allow MythMusic to play music videos as visualisations, but 
> I don't know if this is being actively worked on.
>
> I've never used playlists, cos I usually like my music mixed up when 
> it's just playing in the background whilst I'm working. If I want to 
> "experience" an album, I can just turn off random and/or select an 
> individual album from the playlist, although MythMusic as of 0.15 
> seems a bit slower at this.
>
> Possibly not the best way to organise things, but it works for me and 
> the way I like to play back my music.
>
> At 08:54 14/07/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>> Now that I have got a MythTV box I would like to replace my CD 
>> changer with it (keeping the original CDs so this stays legal). But I 
>> wonder how to organize the music...
>>
>> I imagine a structured hierarchy i.e. organizing by genre. Is this 
>> possible using MythMusic? The most simple way to me would be to 
>> browse harddisk folders with MythMusic. Then I could organize those 
>> folders in any way I like. Using links a CD could even appear in 
>> several places (like "Popular" and "Party Music").
>>
>> If this is not possible I would like to know how you create playlists 
>> for MythMusic. Using the interface looks to complicated to me. 
>> Especially since I have some compilation CDs. As far as I understand 
>> I need to look up each song by navigating to the artist to make a 
>> matching playlist. This would take quite a while for each compilation 
>> CD. Is there any better tool to generate playlists for MythMusic?
>>
>>
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