[mythtv] [SUGGESTION] Ideas to improve the music plugin

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 30 07:29:59 EST 2004


Steven Cruysberghs wrote:
> 
>>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>Van: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
>>[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] Namens Joseph A. Caputo
>>Verzonden: maandag 29 maart 2004 23:24
>>Aan: matt at goebelnet.com; Development of mythtv
>>Onderwerp: Re: [mythtv] [SUGGESTION] Ideas to improve the music plugin
>>
>>
>>On Monday 29 March 2004 14:45, Matt Goebel wrote:
>>
>>>I understand the music plugin portion of myth is being 
>>
>>rewritten and I 
>>
>>>have a few suggestions for features I'd like to see.  Those are:
>>>
>>>1. A better way to navigate large music collections.  Everyone 
>>>organizes their music differently.  All mine is in the format 
>>>/Artist/Artist - Title.mp3 ... that way there's no 
>>
>>duplication of the 
>>
>>>same songs from different albums and there's less work involved in 
>>>adding new stuff. Right now I have music from some 2500 or so 
>>>artists... so using the tree view to navigate is difficult. 
>>
>> I'd like 
>>
>>>to see some new optional way to view my collection.  If there was a 
>>>way to navigate based on the first letter of an artist's 
>>
>>name it would 
>>
>>>make things quite a bit easier.  I'd also like to see a search 
>>>function and a folder view option.
>>
>>This has been suggested a number of times... some form of UI overhaul 
>>will probably happen in the future; I think most developers 
>>are holding 
>>off from major UI overhauls at this point until we see how 
>>the new mfd 
>>infrastructure works out for serving content.
>>
>>
> 
> Isaac recently added "splitartist" as an extra sorting option for the
> music tree that does just this.
> 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=115655;sear
> ch_string=cruysberghs;guest=2738493&t=search_engine#115655
>  

Ah, I had been wondering what that was...

-JAC



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