[mythtv-users] mythmusic questions

[Robert Tsai]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:06:37PM +0100, Chris Rouch wrote:
> There was talk last year of allowing music to continue playing while
> viewing photos. Did this ever happen, and if so how do I enable it?

No.

> Similarly, is there now a clock available in the menus?
> 
> I have some playlists in .m3u format from other players. Is it
> possible to convert these to use in myth? I tried this using a
> script to insert entries into musicplaylists, which half works - the
> playlist appears and plays, but displays a message "Something is
> wrong", so I've obviously missed something.

The hardest part about importing .m3u playlists is that MythMusic
playlists are stored using the internal database ID for a song. For
example, one playlist consists of songs
"1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817". It is highly unlikely that any
.m3u playlist will be instantly aware of the MythMusic internal IDs.
Any script would have to figure out the internal ID for each member of
the imported playlist.

> I have random visualizations set. Every so often I get a black
> screen with a question mark in it instead. How do I find out what is
> missing?

This is the "AlbumArt" visualization. It means you don't have album
art. I think if you have some JPGs in the same directory as that
track, MythMusic's AlbumArt visualization will display them.

> It would be nice to be able to start playing from within the music
> setup screen (e.g. by pressing play). Is this currently possible?

I don't know. Do you set up your music that often?

--Rob
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