[mythtv-users] Using MythMusic

[Phill Edwards]

> I find the best way to handle music sorting is to do it yourself --
> i.e. ignoring ID3 tags and setting the sorting method to directory.
> 
> This does mean that you have to set up your directory structure the
> way you want it and put the files in manually, but in the end it's
> much easier to keep track of what songs are where.
> 
> The easiest way is to build your dir tree as
> ~/music/genre/artist/album/01_track.ogg. With the directory sorting
> option enabled, browsing the music directory from inside Mythmusic
> gives you the ability to select whole genres, or any number of
> artists, ablums, and/or individual tracks.
> 
> As far as the remote goes, I use the grey Hauppage remote. By default,
> (at least following Jarod's guide) the blue button skips forward a
> song, the yellow button skips back a song. I don't know about FF/REW,
> but I don't use them anyway. To make navigating easier (I've got a LOT
> of songs on my box) I remapped the yellow button to PgDn, and the red
> button (usually Exit) to PgUp. The lirc config file is in
> /home/mythuser/.mythtv/.
> 
> I can send you more details if you need them, but I'm nowhere near the
> box right now.

If you wouldn't mind, I would like to see what gets mapped to what
exactly in lircrc to make these buttons work in the Music screen:

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Thanks,
Phill