[mythtv-users] Mythmusic food for thought

[Mike Wood]

While we're tossing around ideas for MythMusic..... I think the music selection screen could be improved from the standard Tree view as well.  However, my thought would be to use the same type functionality that exists in Myth today for the Program Finder.
Start in the left column with the alphabet, Choose a Letter/Number and move right to the list of Artists for that letter.  Then choose an Artist and move right again for a list of Albums.  Choose an album and move right again to choose individual songs.  Of course, anywhere along this path, you would be able to queue things up...so if you wanted everything from a particular artist, you could do that.

Screen size may be a limitation on this however.  The program finder is only 3 columns...Alphabet/Program Name/Time Slots.....where this would have to be 4 columns.... Alphabet/Artist/Album/Track.  So maybe you split the screen and put Alphabet and Artist on the top half...then drop down and pick albums and songs on the bottom half?

Just more MythMusic "food for thought" as the subject implies.  I just think this would simplify music selection a bit because with a very large collection of music, scrolling the tree view can get a little tedious.

Thanks for Listening,
Mike



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic food for thought
> From: "Pete's MythTV" <myth at scantech.no-ip.com>
> Date: Tue, December 02, 2003 6:20 am
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> 
> I would definitely like to see a music interface where song selection
> is
> done by the numeric keys on the remote.
> 
> Have a look at this really simple but excellent jukebox style player
> for the
> windoze platform http://www.jbsim.co.uk/index.php  I use it on my
> laptop for
> to whole family to use.  MythMusic would be wonderful if it had an
> interface
> like this.  A single "album" display would probably suit TV best.
> Unfortunately I'm not a programmer or I would have a go at doing it.  I
> have
> emailed the author to see if he would create a version to sit within
> Myth,
> but no reply yet.
> 
> Pete
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Mark Winder
> Sent: 02 December 2003 13:00
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythmusic food for thought
> 
> 
> I've long had an MP3 set up and although I'm quite new to myth and
> quite
> like MythMusic,
> It certainly does more than my original set up, in many ways I feel
> that
> Mythmusic will prove too cumbersom for my needs.
> 
> I mean count the key presses needed to hear a piece of music.
> 
> Because it may be of intrest from a design point  of view, (And we do
> seem
> to be discussing Myth ideas at present), this is how my old system
> worked.
> 
> To hear an album (I have about 150 collections that I call albums) you
> enter
> the album number. The number is in the range
> 2 to 199
> then hit the red key (play now) or the green key (queue now)
> 
>  To hear a particular song, you hit the album number followed by the 2
> digit
> song number, followed by red or green as before.
> Fore example track 6 on album 32, you enter  [3] [2] [0] [6] [red]
> perhaps. For the whole of album 32, you just enter [3] [2] [red]
> 
> This system works with xmms and a special lircfile. Also a suite of
> special
> playlists generated by a perl script when I print out the song list.
> The
> printed list of album titles, and individuel songs, is kept as the
> definative guide for anybody who wants to use the system but in
> practice
> I often know the number of the songs I want, and surprisingly so does
> my
> girlfriend. (Have to keep moving Sean Paul as otherwise
> this gets played WAY too much!!).
> 
> As a matter of fact the system worked originally with Winamp using an
> Irman
> , and since then I've ported it to lirc (with the irman but thats not
> important!)  and XMMS Redhat.
> 
> Note that when you get above 199 albums the number scheme needs an
> update:
> album 2 would need to be moved thus freeing up space for another
> hundred
> albums. This is coded in the perl script.
> 
> Note that one key design feature is that you do not need to have the
> TV
> switched on, indeed there is no point in doing so, it was not connected
> in
> my old system.
> 
> Mark Winder
> mark.winder4 at-sign btinternet.com
> 
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