[mythtv-users] MythMusic Request

[Bob Sully]

Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Bob Sully <rcs at malibyte.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all....
>>
>> I have been playing with MythMusic, trying to set up playlists.  Maybe
>> I'm
>> in the minority here, but I organize my music by directory as follows:
>>
>> [mythtv at vader: ~]$ lsl /audio
>> total 176
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk    36864 2009-08-27 08:00 60-70/
>> drwsrwsrwx  9 mythtv disk     4096 2008-05-25 22:03 incoming/
>> drwx------  2 root   root    16384 2009-03-18 20:26 lost+found/
>> drwxrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk    40960 2006-08-15 06:29 Top500RockSongs/
>> drwsrwsrwx  3 mythtv disk     4096 2009-08-20 21:55 Buffett/
>> drwxrwxrwx 14 root   disk     4096 2009-09-08 21:58 ./
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2008-03-04 20:31 Celtic/
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2009-08-22 09:54 Country/
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2002-12-12 22:07 Techno/
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2006-06-21 22:09 Reggae/
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk    36864 2009-08-20 23:20 80-90-00/
>> drwxr-xr-x 38 root   root     4096 2009-11-17 08:13 ../
>> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2009-01-18 23:27 xmas/
>>
>> All the stuff in "60-70" and "80-90-00" is rock of most all genres from
>> those decades.
>>
>> I like to set up playlists which just include each directory
>> individually,
>> and some which might be combinations of several directories, e.g.:
>>
>> RockMix1 = 60-70 + 80-90-00
>> RockMix2 = RockMix1+ Top500RockSongs
>> Mix3 = RockMix2 + Buffett + Reggae
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> Many of my mp3 files were ripped from my own CDs and the ID3 tags often
>> don't have the right years (for example, if they were ripped from a
>> "Greatest Hits" disc, or Grip might have assigned the wrong genre,
>> etc.).
>> Even some of the files I buy from Amazon often get these wrong, so
>> that's
>> why I group 'em by directory.
>>
>> The playlist editor/selector has improved quite a bit from 0.21 but
>> still
>> lacks the ability to select files by directory.  I'd like to request
>> this
>> as a feature in 0.23... ;-)
>>
>> Does anyone else out there do it this way, or am I just an oddity? ;-)
>>
>> By the way - thanks for the option to upmix to 5.1...sounds much better!
>>
>
> What I've done to make this sort of setup work is to set the genres to
> match
> the directories (I don't find the genres otherwise useful). Then you can
> select songs by genre and it all works fine. If you're importing stuff
> fairly frequently this might not be practical for you, but if you're
> collection is reasonable stable it should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>

Steve:

The problem is, I'd have to edit the ID3 tags on all of the 3000 or so mp3
files I have.  So that won't really work for me...until I can find the
time to sit down and write a script to do it.  Thanks for the suggestion,
though.   ;-p

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