[mythtv-users] tv: MythMusic dynamic sorting
David Fishburn
fishburn at ianywhere.com
Mon Feb 26 03:54:27 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Paul Harrison
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:25 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: tv: MythMusic dynamic sorting
>
> Robert wrote:
> > David Fishburn wrote:
> >
> >> Myth 0.20
> >>
> >> Currently, I have my music sorted by tags using author,
> album, song.
> >> I suspect this is the default order.
> >>
> >> I organize my music by directory structure. I know I can
> change the
> >> default sort order to directory.
> >>
> >> I am collecting more and more mixed albums. Half the time
> I want to
> >> add songs (to the playlist) by author, but the other half
> I want to
> >> add it by a directory.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to dynamically change this while looking at
> your music list?
> >> I looked through the various key bindings (in MythWeb) but
> didn't see
> >> any options available to me.
> >>
> >> Do other people have solutions to this kind of dilema if
> Myth doesn't
> >> provide any support natively?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I'd be interested something similar to this too. Sometimes
> I want to
> > search by author->album->song, but other times by
> album->author->song
> > for compilation albums. In the same way that in iTunes you
> can select
> > "All authors" then get a list of all albumns.
> >
> > I've not found a way to do it though - but tbh, I've not
> looked very
> > hard either.
> >
> >
> > Robert.
> >
> >
>
> I've been sitting on a patch that allows you to browse your
> music any which way you want. At the top level you can view a
> list of all artists, albums, genres or tracks. You can filter
> the list by entering some text in the edit at the top of the
> screen. So if you enter 'A' then only the items that start
> with 'A' are shown so it is quick to find what you want. You
> can then move up a level so if you start in the Artists and
> select one you can them view all the albums, genres, or
> tracks by that artist etc. You can choose to view the lists
> as text items or as images which is great for the albums list
> if you have cover art for them. I got maybe 80-90% finished
> and then decided I wasn't 100% happy with it :-( and then I
> got distracted doing other things. I've never updated it to
> work with the DB schema change either so will need some
> changes to get it working again.
>
> What I may do if it's easy enough to fix after the schema
> change and there is enough interest is post the patch on trac
> as a work in progress patch for people to try and maybe we
> can salvage something out of it, even if it's only an Album
> Art viewer or something? One problem I can see in doing this
> is if you ask 10 people how the music browsing should be done
> you will probably get 10 different answers :-)
That sounds great Paul.
Definitely a vast improvement over what we have today.
Please make it available.
Dave
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