[mythtv] MythMusic GUI changes

[Justin Cherniak]

Having my library organized with iTunes (iPod sync), I use the following tag
structure:

   - Title - movement name and number (ex - "I. Allegro")
   - Artist - performer (orchestra for orchestral works, soloist for solo
   works)
   - Composer - composer
   - Album - Work
   - Grouping - Album Name
   - Track number - movement number
   - BPM - opus number
   - Comments - mainly includes conductor, soloist (for orchestral works
   such as concerti) or accompanist (for x+piano works)

I find using that structure just makes everything work properly for both
sorting in iTunes and on my iPod.  If Mythmusic could utilize such a
structure it would not be short of amazing.  Some heirarchies that could
work:

   - Composer - Album - Title (sorted by track number)
   - Artist - Composer - Album - Title
   - Composer - Album (sorted by BPM) - Title

Just a suggestion, but I think it would work well.  Maybe an option
somewhere to figure between popular and classical view?

Justin

On 1/2/06, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be happy to help test, as many of these features would be useful to
> me.  (Incidentally, I too have a mainly classical collection, but I've
> coopted the tags so Artist=Composer, Album=Work, and Title=Performers, after
> munging tracks together so each work is a single file.)
>
> --Wendy
>
> On 1/2/06, Justin Cherniak <compwiz312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Paul, I'm wondering if it would be possible to add an additional view,
> > for us classical music listeners.  Namely, a Composer list.  I personally
> > have my music library managed by iTunes where I used almost every tag
> > available, however being able to browse by composer would be absolutely
> > wonderful (the artist tag contains the performer, which isn't very useful to
> > browse by).
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Justin
> >
> > On 1/2/06, Paul Volkaerts < paul.volkaerts at lineone.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > I have been working on some GUI improvements in MythMusic -- its
> > > coming along ok & hopefully will finish before my holidays do, so wanted to
> > > check firstly that the owner of this code does not object and secondly that
> > > I'm not repeating what someone else is doing.
> > >
> > > The look and feel has not changed much; but as a taster -- here is
> > > what I have so far.
> > >
> > > 1. I've built several views into the tree. By default you see the
> > > "Active Play Queue" but at full width (equivelant to show-whole-tree being
> > > false) because I don't like the way that you lose 1/4 of the screen when
> > > show-whole-tree is enabled.   Up and down work as before but left and right
> > > cycle between
> > >         Active playlist
> > >         Artist list
> > >         Genre list
> > >         Playlist list
> > >         Search facility
> > >
> > > 2. In any of these screens you can use up/down/select to browse the
> > > catalog, browsing into Artists/Albums etc as you wish
> > >
> > > 3. In any of these screens hitting PLAY will play that item (e.g. on
> > > an artist plays everything by that artist etc).
> > >
> > > 4. The search facility lets you type a few characters and it lists all
> > > the artists that match.  To do this, I implemented a new Myth widget called
> > > a MythKeyboard, which shows you a picture of a keyboard and lets you use
> > > up/down/left/right/select to type.  For good measure I have also attached
> > > this to MythLineEdit and MythRemoteLineEdit types, so hitting MENU in any
> > > text input field now displays a keyboard.
> > >
> > > 5. Some suprtficial changes - adding icons, and a few minor changes to
> > > the theme (removing the play,ffwd icons to make the artwork bigger), though
> > > there is no code changes there, just theme.
> > >
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
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> Wendy Seltzer
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