[mythtv] Mythmusic - shuffle by album?

[Edward Wildgoose]

I'm guessing that you want to hook into the quick scan for new songs at
startup, get any playlists then and create the myth objects...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv] Mythmusic - shuffle by album?


> Hmmm... one thing I've been thinking about recently is the ability of
> mythmusic to somehow read, import, export, or otherwise deal with standard
> .m3u files for playlists.  This would have a number of benefits:
>
> - Ability to maintain a common set of playlists for use with mythmusic &
> other media players
> - Easy & powerful ways to create/manage playlists (offline) already exist
>
> I have my music collection on a 30GB external USB/Firewire drive that I
take
> with me to work, then plug into my Myth box when I get home.  It would be
> really nice if I could just maintain a set of .m3u files that worked in
both
> locations.
>
> In the short term, I might just come up with a shell/MySQL script that
would
> read the .m3u files and create the corresponding playlists in the
database,
> but maybe someone can come up with a more elegant solution...
>
> -Joe C.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Edward Wildgoose
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 4:27 AM
> > To: Development of mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv] Mythmusic - shuffle by album?
> >
> >
> > Seems clunky to actually have to *create* the playlist containing
> > each album
> > though.  Is there a UI way of being able to treat each album as a
playlist
> > or a collection of tracks...?
>
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