[mythtv-users] MythMusic dynamic sorting

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 20:51:48 UTC 2007


On 7/24/07, Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Paul Harrison <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I did briefly try to update it to work with the new DB schema but
> >> managed to comprehensively break it and like I said before I wasn't 100%
> >> happy with it when it _was_ working so didn't want to spend too much
> >> time on it. If I get some time later today I'll take another stab at it
> >> and see if I can at least get it working again so I can take some screen
> >> shots so that anyone interested can take a look and provide some feed
> >> back on whether it is worth continuing development on it.
> >>
> >
> > Well, when you first mentioned it, I envisioned the "All Music" (or
> > whatever its titled, I almost wrote "My Music" =)  have a separate set
> > of sub divisions before you get to the actual music. Something along
> > the lines of,
> >
> >  - Directory
> >  - Artist
> >  - Genre
> >  - Album
> >  - Compilations(?)
> >
> > With, directory (or whatever you decide to call it) being the regular
> > directory view, Compilation showing by Album the tracks tagged as a
> > Compilation, and the others building based on the id3 information in
> > the database. Much like the current ability to format the tree
> > structure based on "Artist" "Album" "Genre" etc in the setup. In fact,
> > the be all end all would be to allow the user to create multiple tree
> > formats in the setup to create their own list. So I could do
> > Aritst / Album
> > or
> > Artist / A-D / Album
> > Artist / E-I / Album
> > etc
> > Genre/Rock/Artist/Album
> > Genre/Jazz/Artist/Album
> > etc
> > etc
> >
> > type of thing. But for now just the ability to have the simple layout
> > I showed above would be a huge improvement, perhaps with the simple
> > option to use the Artist or "Split Artist" format, I have *a lot* of
> > music...
> >
> > hopefully that gives you some direction. now i just need to continue
> > working on those MythMusic rehash concept drawings....
> >
> >
> >
>
> I've abused the wiki and put up some screen shots of what I have now.
> Like I say I'm not really happy with it but maybe it can form the basis
> of a usable system.
>
> The basic idea is to allow you to browse though your music and allow you
> to add or replace tracks on the active play list. At the moment I've
> just added a new 'Browse Music' menu item to show the 'Music Browser'. I
> think it would make more sense if it could be shown directly from the
> playback screen though.
>
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Mythmusic_browser3.jpg
> The first screen shot shows the browser when it is first shown. It
> defaults to showing all artists in the list view. The filter edit at the
> top of the screen allows you to show only items (artist in this view)
> that start with whatever you type in. This allows you to quickly find an
> item in the list. Pressing 'Select' on a item will move up to the next
> level, so if an artist is selected the list will switch to showing all
> albums by that artist. If you want to show all Genres of the tracks by
> the artist then you can click menu and switch to the Genre view. The
> check boxes work in the same way as on the 'Select Music' list so if an
> item is checked then all items below that will be checked e.g. if you
> wanted to select all the 'Rock' tracks by an artist you would first find
> and press select on that artist then switch to the Genre view then find
> 'Rock' in the list and then  make sure the check box is checked. The
> problem here is what key to use to toggle the check box because select
> is already used to move up one level. It currently uses  PLAY/P which
> isn't exactly intuitive.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Mythmusic_browser2.jpg
> This shows the popup menu that allow you to switch views, switch to grid
> view or go back up one level.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Mythmusic_browser1.jpg
> This shows the Artist view in Grid View mode. The images show a montage
> of four album covers by the artist. One of the things that seemed like a
> good idea at the time not so sure now.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Mythmusic_browser4.jpg
> This shows the album view after first selecting the 'Christmas' genre in
> the top level.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Mythmusic_browser5.jpg
> This shows a simple 'Album Viewer'. The original idea was that when an
> album is selected in the browser then this screen would be shown to view
> all the tracks on that album.
>
>
> I'm really looking for ideas on where to go with this.

huh, I don't know what the non-list view looks like normally =D

I've just been using the list view (i think thats the view, the one
without any fancy graphics)...

But I do like what I see.
perhaps open a ticket for it so we can download what you've got so far
and get a better feel for it?

-- 
Steve
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