On 4/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Simpson</b> <<a href="mailto:jeffsimpson@alum.wpi.edu">jeffsimpson@alum.wpi.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I don't think that's what he's suggesting. Just record the mp3 or ogg
<br>audio, then have the ability to display a visualization when you play it
<br>back.</blockquote></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><br>Ok, that's what I thought, just wanted to make sure.<br><br>I think the scheduling a<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Oh I hate when gmail sends messages before I'm done typing...
<br><br>What I was going to say was that I think the scheduling and recording should probably be looked at before too much work is done on the interface, since there are technically already ways to play back the recordings, even if they aren't ideal.
<br><br>Are radio recordings that much different than other media files / mp3s? I agree that mythmusic has a bad interface, but I see that the goals of the mythmusic interface are very similar to what we will want for a radio recording playback interface - we will want a list of all the mp3/m4as, we'll want to sort by ID3 meta tags (for mp3s, this would be artist, title, album, for radio recordings, the equivalents would be the station name / program name, probably stored in the artist/trackname fields). We'll want all the basic abilities of an mp3 player, play, fast forward, skip, random, etc. It seems like it would make more sense to extend (and fix) mythmusic than start from scratch. I think I personally would just want the ability to grab the mp3 and send it to my iPod or stream it to a desktop media player rather than having to sit in front of a TV, but I can see why it would be good to allow mythfrontend to work as a recording radio. (I can't say how many times since I got my mythTV set up that I've listened to the radio and wanted to rewind to hear something again or pause)
<br><br> - Jeff<br>