Can anyone tell me how mythmusic deals with album art. Also is there any way of handling lyrics and artist bios? Thanks.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dewey Smolka</b> <<a href="mailto:dsmolka@gmail.com">
dsmolka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 2/7/07, Matthew Bellizzi <<a href="mailto:matt.bellizzi@gmail.com">
matt.bellizzi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello<br>><br>><br>> Is it possible to run MythTV without a capture device? You see right now<br>> I have a ReplayTV unit DVD playerr and a laptop hooked up to my stereo. I
<br>> use the laptop to access a gallery website and music streaming site. I<br>> would like to be able to test out the slideshow, music and other<br>> functionality before buying a capture device. TIA<br><br>
Yes. I originally had my system running for around six months before<br>adding TV capture capability.<br><br>When you're setting up, you'll still need to define a tuner, channel<br>source, input source, data source, etc, and run mythfilldatabase. It
<br>doesn't matter that you have no tuner, but this step is necessary for<br>properly setting up MySQL, upon which everything else depends.<br><br>The picture display and slideshow is easy enough to set up, but you'll
<br>need to have your picture direcory (-ies) available to your Myth<br>frontend -- meaning they'll have to be mounted locally on your Mythbox<br>with Samba or NFS.<br><br>The same thing applies for MythMusic -- the directory holding your
<br>music files has to be mounted locally on the Myth box with Samba/NFS.<br>The setup menus on the frontend (Setup -> Setup -> Media settings, I<br>believe) will let you point to the right directory for pictures and
<br>music. Pictures should work as soon as you have the directory set (I<br>believe) but you'll also need to Scan for New Music after you've set<br>your directory.<br><br>I'm not sure how much luck you'll have with online streaming services,
<br>but any music you have stored should work without problem. I'm not<br>sure about AAC support, but mp3, ogg, flac, wma (*), and other formats<br>are readily supported.<br><br>(*) - There are a few kinks with wma, but on the whole it works.
<br>Nonetheless, it isn't a particularly good format, both because it is<br>less than optimal in terms of quality/compression ratio and because it<br>is so encumbered with MS baggage and nonsense. You're much better off
<br>with ogg, FLAC, and/or mp3. There are some very small and useful tools<br>available on Linux to batch-convert wma to more useful formats<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>
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