[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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