[mythtv-users] How is 0.24's music handling?

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Monday, November 22, 2010 12:37:34 pm Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> 
wrote:
> On 22/11/10 11:46, Robert Siebert wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:05:09 -0700, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >> I just finished ripping my 360+ CD collection to my main workstation
> >> and currently use Amarok (in KDE 4.5.3) for playback.
> >> 
> >> Since my Myth box needs upgrading I'm wondering how well MythMusic
> >> competes
> >> with Amarok these days and whether I should invest (yet) in moving my
> >> music
> >> over to my Myth box and keeping all my media together.
> >> 
> >> I'm a newb to music players but features I like in Amarok so far are
> >> cover-
> >> grabbing, lyrics display, Wikipedia page, and scripting. Maybe there
> >> are features I'm missing that I should be aware of.
> >> 
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> > I also would like to see some progress of the intended rewrite of
> > mythmusic.
> > Mythmusic can't do: grabbing, lyrics display, Wikipedia page, and
> > scripting.
> 
> Cover grabbing is a little tricky to do legally because they are usually
> copyrighted, if you know of a legal way to do it I'd be glad to add it,
> I was thinking of just allowing the user to search Google images for the
> covers and leave it up to the user to decide as to the legality of it.
> The same could be said of lyrics but there are sites that offer public
> api's for grabbing them so I have added a screen that shows them. I do
> plan on adding a Wikipedia screen but the problem at the moment is the
> broken user style sheets in Qt 4.6 which we need to make the display
> usable for TV users. I have no plans to add scripting to MythMusic I'll
> leave that up to the bindings guys.

Amarok does a fine job all but 18 of my CDs got cover art - do they do it 
all legally? They also mine Google Images for some part of it, and 
somewhere on their website talk about not  using Amazon API at the moment 
since they need to upgrade from the old one, so there are legal resources 
out there.