[mythtv-users] Noob Question....

[Timothy McFadden]

Hi Joshua.

For you playlist question: The playlists are stored in the MySQL database.
No file is saved. Personally, I found Myth's implementation of playlist
generation a bit awkward. I have all of my music on my linux box and use
Winamp ( on a windows PC ) to generate playlists in M3U format. There's a
script floating around called 'm3u2myth.pl' that will insert an M3U playlist
into the MySQL database.

I'm not sure why MythTV crashes during the database build, sorry.

I'm not sure what you mean by "making music more dominant", but you modify
the menus however you want. Just copy the XML files you wish to change ( e.g.
mainmenu.xml ) to your ~/.mythtv folder and edit it to your hearts content.
I removed things I didn't need. You might want to remove everthing but
music. *shrugs*

I'm also not familiar with the ratings system but I there is a field called
"rating" in the musicmetadata MySQL table. You would probably have to
re-rate all of your music.

Personally, I don't use WMV. I'm a fan of MP3 ( I know, I know... shocked
and apalled, whatever ).

Anyway, I hope I've given you some idea.

^^Deon: Joshua's messaged popped up as a main thread for me. *shrugs*

-Tim

On 9/29/05, Joshua Orr <jojo at oregonfast.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings, folks.... I'm a new user for Myth, ... I've been having
> problems making play lists, per the faq, or other documentation I've read,
> and I think I got it all.... :) It never comes up to ask me a file name, or
> where to store it. I also can't seem to find what type of file is compatible
> with Myth, I've already built play lists for my favorites, and would like to
> use them
>  The second thing I've noticed, not sure what's going on here... but need
> some ideas to go on.: I attempt to build the music database, it scans, works
> for a while and crashes out of MythTv, back to my KnoppMyth desktop. In
> viewing the logs, and referring to available memory it appears it is running
> out of RAM. I'm thinking that's a though thing to do for Linux.
>  System Configs:
>  Asus Terminator C3 barebones system, everything stock, nothing added yet.
> Via C3 processor
> 512 MB Pc2100 RAM (DDR)
> 80GB HDD (Maxtor)
>  I have one other question, if I may.... is there a way to make music more
> dominant in the system? I've already got a DVR on my Dish system, and don't
> quite want to put this system in the living room. I also don't have any
> video capture cards at the moment. Music is my main focus and hobby.
>  Oh, and I have some 5300 + tracks, some are VBR, some aren't. Most of
> those are in WMA format, if that makes any difference? ?! If it does, I'd
> consider converting them, but would take a very long time. Probably go FLAC
> if I did, or Ogg... not sure which is better.
>  I also haven't found a way to change the ratings. All of my tracks were
> rated with JR Media Center / Windows Media Player, they showed up in either,
> along with music match. They refused to show in Ejukebox... Apparently now
> all of my tracks are 5 stars ?? no, they shouldn't have been.....there are a
> fair amount that should be 4, and quite a few in the three star range...
>  Thanks in advance for the assistance, and BTW: Great job on MythTv It's
> almost exactly what I've been looking for since my conversion from win on
> this machine.
>  Jojo
>
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