[mythtv-users] Re: (Brad) - New MythMusic Theme - 4 Bins

[Nick Parkinson]

Nick,

### In particular, the Playlists (which includes an
all-music "Library" listing), Genre,  Artist, and
Album can easily be selected to narrow the list of
Songs  
in the lower panel. This works incredibly well.
###

These are the my exact intentions for future
development.  If you select Genre's you will be able
to filter out which Artists are visible using multiple
combinations :  for example

- Rock, ---> 70's, 90's
- Blues ----> 60's, 70's

#### For really long listings, I thought it would be
beneficial if MythMusic let you use the remote as a
keyboard to jump down the  list... 2 = abc, 3 = def, 4
= ghi, etc. 
#####

Thats a very good idea.  I intend to have a PageDown
feature on the Artist tree to help scroll down
quickly.  The number keys will, however, be assigned
to Genre's, Burn CD etc as per the VB screenshot.  I
guess there would have to be a 'switch'.  Perhaps
pressing the RED key on the remote would switch the
functionality of the 1-9 keys for this purpose.  

Alternatively I could use 1-9 as the key jumps as you
describe and the put the other functions under a MENU
that appears when you press M (or Menu on remote). 
This would also free up a bit of space!  hmmm...

### Smart playlists are amazing -- you can set a  
playlist that, for example, lists all songs by a
particular artist which is updated automatically if
you ever add more songs by that artist (basically
these are playlists defined by rules instead of a
fixed list).

-- I agree and disagree at the same time.  I agree
that this feature is crucial but my new design rids
the need to even have playlists for albums/artists
because these are automatically defined by the
directory organisation.  For example if I copied a
track into /myth/music/The Doors/Singles/ then that
song would just show up in the right tree after a new
'scan'.  Albums will also be automatically sorted into
track order.  So, in short, under my new system you
only need to save a playlist if you want to make a
'compilation' of tracks from various albums/singles
that you want to keep for future use.

#### Ok, I've written enough. Sorry for the long
post... I just got excited... I love the changes
you've made so far. I can't wait to check it out!

-- Glad to hear it!  Thanks for the feedback!


	
	
		
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