[mythtv-users] Alternatives to MythMusic in 0.25, has anyone already found one?

[George Galt]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/4/22 Gavin Whitehead <gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk>:
>> On 17/04/2012 21:30, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>>>
>>> Gordon McCrae wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, and conscious that compiling the
>>>> old 0.24.x MythMusic to work with 0.25 is a very temporary solution at
>>>> best, I'd like to know if anyone else out there uses alternative music
>>>> players that implement the same sort of ARTIST/ALBUM/SONG structure
>>>> that the old MythMusic used and can be controlled simply with a remote
>>>> control (no keyboards on any of my eight MythTV systems).
>>>
>>> I'm using XBMC for music and other stuff like iPlayer. I assigned an
>>> unused button on my remote control to kill mythfrontend and start xbmc
>>> and vice versa.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Thomas
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>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Could you tell me how you set this up?  It sounds like something I would
>> like to try.
>>
>> Gavin
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>
> Hello,
>
> I must say i never really got used to the old .24 mythmusic interface
> the only option i used was random play all and hit next until some
> song that i liked started. But since this was  cumbersome so I rarely
> used mythmusic at all.
> I have browsed the .25 a bit and must say i liked the fact that you
> now can easily select albums which i consider a huge improvement.
> Navigating the music tree is still a pain though with a remote, but I
> have ordered a keyboard/remote device to see if that works a bit
> better with mythmusic.
>
> But for the alternatives, there used to be a squeezebox plugin for
> mythtv, the current squeezebox looks a bit more like mythmusic did
> before.
> i would love to see that plugin revived although I admit it would be
> for the internet radio bit in stead of the mp3 bit.
> Here's a few links
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/MythTV_plugin
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Unofficial_Plugins
>
> Cheers
> Rob
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Rob:

I wrote the original MythSqueezebox plugin.  It is based on the
squeezeslave client found here:
https://code.google.com/p/squeezeslave/  That client does not
implement the streaming radio that you get with later versions of the
squeezebox players and is basically akin to the original SliMP3
player.

I've let the MythSqueezebox plugin slide for a while, but in response
to a few requests, I'm dusting it off and should have something usable
later this week.  The problem is that, as currently configured, it is
just a pretty face on the squeezeslave client.  To get streaming radio
and other features of more recent "squeeze" hardware, a new software
client would have to be created.

I've looked into this in the past, but didn't have the time to climb
the learning curve on ffmpeg/portaudio and the other pieces that would
need to be put together to do it.  However, this summer, I'd be happy
to work with others who might have a better background with ffmpeg or
other similar tools to implement a new software client that would
handle direct streaming.  If there is anyone interested in digging
into a new writing a new software client for the squeezebox server,
let me know.

George