[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music

Paul Harrison mythtv at sky.com
Tue Feb 28 19:43:17 UTC 2012


On 24/02/12 12:39, Scott & Nicole Harris wrote:
>>>> I really fail to see the issue here - if you give your music sensible
>>>> metadata as you rip it, it's there....if you buy from legal sources,
>>>> it's there...not sure where you've got all this untagged music from?
>>> Sounds like you're implying that he may have got his music from dubious
>>> sources. He may have just ripped his own CDs and not tagged them.
>> Not implying that at all - I just don't think it's a big deal to tag
>> CD's as you rip them, particularly since you've got pretty good odds
>> of it matching one of the music databases.
>>
>> If you're ripping vinyl it's a slow process anyway, the few moments to
>> type a few track names while you're splitting them doesn't really
>> figure in...
>>
>> - Chris
> I don't think your suggestion of using "Album Artist" will do much with 0.25 
> (I could be very wrong).  The Navigation Tree is pre-filled with 
> categories....All, Album, Artist, Rating.  Also, it may help a little with 
> compilation albums, but it doesn't help much with all the individual songs 
> that my wife has purchased from ITunes that she wants organize "Like X" and 
> all the songs she's bought from Amazon that she want "Like Y".  I suppose 
> ultimately metadata could be fudged to make things work out, but I'd hardly 
> call that "sane" metadata...in fact, I'd call that kinda the opposite of 
> "sane".  "sane" metadata to me is ACCURATE metadata, not a bunch of crap I 
> had to make up to get it to fit my players restrictions imposed by someone 
> who decided that's the best way for me (especially [as mentioned earlier], 
> folders have been around since the dawn of computing and are as simple as it 
> gets to create a hierarchy of data).
>
> Also, none of this allows me to just navigate to Kangaroo Cry and just play 
> it.  I don't do playlists, never have, [hopefully] never will.  I have 
> always been a jump around and listen to individual songs on whims, or entire 
> albums in the background type. 
>

The eagle eyed of you may have noticed some commented out code in the
playlist editor which adds some Tags nodes to the tree but it's just a
place holder at the moment and needs to be fully implemented. Tags are
similar to genres except each track can have more than one tag
associated with it and the meaning of the tags are up to the user. For
example you could have tags called Tom, Dick and Harry or iTunes and
Amazon. You can add any number of tags to a track and then you can
browse by Tag like you can with Artist, Album etc. This would be far
more flexible than using the directory structure alone that many people
are calling for.

Paul H.


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