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

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 17:03:46 EDT 2004


On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:36:24 +0200, Thomas <mythml at wolke7.net> wrote:
> Actually I have never seen a hierarchical playlist system. You end up
> with a huge amount of playlists just listed and sorted by their name.
> Does not sound very comfortable to me.
> 
> But I did not want to start a "playlists or file system" war. It is
> really great MythMusic allows both to be used.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Am 14.07.2004 um 22:04 schrieb Joseph A. Caputo:
> 
> 
> 
> > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 15:52, Thomas wrote:
> >> You can actually do a lot using the tags. For example the iPod offers
> >> a good way to browse by tags. And I do not want to miss the tags for
> >> showing information about the songs while they are playing.
> >>
> >> But still a file structure offers more flexibility:
> >> - you can order by more than one criteria.
> >>    For example: having a song in it's correct genre and in a party
> >> collection and in a personal folder ("MyDaughtersFavoritMusic")
> >> - you can use as many hierarchy levels as you like.
> >>    For example: "Sound Tracks/Action Movies" or "Party/Slow"
> >>
> >> How do you do this with tags only?
> >
> > That's what playlists are for.
> >
> > -JAC
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One thing that would be nice would be the ability to easily view all
music by either genre, Album, Artist, or Song name (nested of course),
similar to the way the iPod works.  This would of course be using
metadata not the file system.

Fred


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