[mythtv] Using Wikipedia as a source of artist information for MythMusic

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/10/07, Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Timothy Livingston <tim at livingstonautomation.com> wrote:
> > Can an interface for Amarok be created for MythTV?
>
> While I'd love to see this, I say it's unlikely. Amarok has a lot of
> dependencies.
>
> HOWEVER there are some libraries used by Amarok that I think _could_
> be interesting for mythtv:
>
> TagLib: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
>
> libvisual - http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/v2/
> I'd *REALLY* like to have this optionally included or included in
> addition to goom - There's already a patch -
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231873 - some argued
> that libvisual development is stagnant, but I believe mythtv's goom is
> still an old one and hasn't been sync'ed with goom2k4, so... ?
>
> libgpod - http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod.html - mytharchive -> ipod anyone?
>
> > Amarok does a great
> > job of managing the music library, pulling information from a wide
> > variety of sources based on context, maintaining podcasts, and even
> > interfacing with portable media devices.
>
> I really like the streaming player in Amarok...
> But it doesn't have a great UI for use from 15 feet away, and it has
> too many "windows"
>
> > Lets not re-invent the wheel- Make MythMusic a remote-friendly interface
> > for some already incredible music management software...
>
> Due to the number of dependencies for amarok, I highly doubt there
> will be support for making amarok a dependency of mythtv
>
> > And personally
> > I like being able to pick a database format and use it as a standard.
>
> oh, and then there's that... amarok uses sqlite. MythTV uses mysql. My
> feeling is that a music player should not store metadata information
> in its database that isn't also stored in id3 tags.

not totally true. I have Amarok using MySQL, its an option one can
choose. I actually use Amarok on my mythfrontend via ssh to listen to
music (since I really dislike MythMusic's interface). I too think it
would be neat if MythMusic could use the Amarok database like this,
though I don't know if it would gain MythMusic anything. But I'd
prefer to see the interface made better first...

-- 
Steve
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