[mythtv-users] Still stumped on mythmusic

[Dewey Smolka]

Not to ask a stupid question, but did you hit 'Scan for New Music' on
the music screen?


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:17:47 -0400, Ryan Steffes <rbsteffes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can not for the life of me get mythmusic or mythdvd to work.  They
> are taunting me and they insult my manliness.  I'm thinking it may be
> because the instructions are incomplete or insufficient, or perhaps
> because I'm not finding them as intuitive as everyone else is.
> 
> My problem with both mythmusic is that it can't seem to find any of my
> music or video files.  In the Select Music section, I see four options
> (from memory), [] ALL MUSIC, (Something about) CD, Active Playlist,
> Active Queue.  None of these options have submenus.
> 
> As a first troubleshooting step I checked directories.  mythmusic
> expects music in /home/music/ and file template is: FilenameTemplate
>              | ARTIST/ALBUM/TRACK-TITLE  my directory structure is
> such that it goes: /home/music/ARTIST/ALBUM/TRACK so that looks right
> to me.  My second step I need to ask for help on, should there be a
> seperate table to hold the mythmusic info?  In the mythmusic source
> directory there is a directory musicdb which contains some old
> conversion scripts. In this directory is a README file that refers to:
> 
> If you are installing mythmusic for the first time, you just need to execute
> the main metadata.sql script as described in ../README and in the online
> documentation
> 
> Except it IS NOT described in the readme OR in the online
> documentation.  I took this to mean it was a deprecated step, but I'm
> wondering if that problems I have are caused by this.
> 
> My database looks like this:
> 
> mysql> show tables;
> +----------------------------+
> | Tables_in_mythconverg      |
> +----------------------------+
> | callsignnetworkmap         |
> | capturecard                |
> | cardinput                  |
> | channel                    |
> | codecparams                |
> | conflictresolutionany      |
> | conflictresolutionoverride |
> | conflictresolutionsingle   |
> | credits                    |
> | dvb_channel                |
> | dvb_pids                   |
> | dvb_sat                    |
> | dvb_signal_quality         |
> | dvdinput                   |
> | dvdtranscode               |
> | favorites                  |
> | filemarkup                 |
> | gallerymetadata            |
> | housekeeping               |
> | jobqueue                   |
> | jumppoints                 |
> | keybindings                |
> | keyword                    |
> | mythlog                    |
> | networkiconmap             |
> | newssites                  |
> | oldprogram                 |
> | oldrecorded                |
> | people                     |
> | profilegroups              |
> | program                    |
> | programgenres              |
> | programrating              |
> | recgrouppassword           |
> | record                     |
> | recorded                   |
> | recordedmarkup             |
> | recordingprofiles          |
> | recordoverride             |
> | settings                   |
> | videosource                |
> +----------------------------+
> 41 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> mysql>
> 
> Is there anything blatantly missing?
> 
> 
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