[mythtv-users] Still stumped on mythmusic

John Kuhn kuhn at razorsys.com
Tue Oct 19 14:16:14 UTC 2004


does the user that started mythfrontend have permission to read into the 
music dir? or read the files?

Just a thought

--John


Ryan Steffes 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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