[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music

[R. G. Newbury]

On 03/09/2012 06:25 PM, Scott and Nicole Harris wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:44:13 +0000
>> From: nasa01 at comcast.net
>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.25 Music
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On 03/08/2012 03:26 PM, Nasa wrote:
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>>>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythMusic#Smart_Playlist
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>>>>> does this make more sense?
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>>> Putting together comments from two different people.
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>>> Thanks for the pointer,but .25 looks NOTHING like the wiki pages sets
>>> out. Although the same bits and pieces are there, together with MORE.
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>>> WHAT A BLOODY MESS. I an not impressed. There are apparently 7
>>> different
>>> filters for how I might like to look at my music. I cannot get rid of
>>> those I do not want, and which just take up screen space. And making
>>> music selections is....weird.
>>> And no apparent method to remove a choice.
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>>> Not impressed. I would prefer the drill-down view accessed by the
>>> little
>>> box in the 'search for music' page.
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>>> Is there any way to get rid of extra crap?
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>> Boy do people like to bitch, hopefully developers have thicker
>> skin than I...
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>> To your points,
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>> 1. Yes -- its changed, my bad.  Should have looked before I posted.
>> 2. There's a lot of options available (I for one really apprecaite
>> them all).
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> Simmer down.
> I never said (nor do I recall any "objectors" either) that I don't appreciate all the new features.  All I said, was I don't appreciate the inability to simply play a song without first adding it to the playlist (queue, whatever you want to call it) and the inability to navigate my music in the oldest, simplest, most intuitive (imo) way possible...directory navigation.  That's it, that's all.
> FWIW, despite the "you can do X"s, I STILL haven't found a way to navigate the tree to a song and start playing it directly.  All the player commands only seem to function on the currently selected / playing song in the play list.  So, for example, I currently have Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger playing.  I navigate the tree to Artists ->  AC/DC ->  All Tracks ->  Shake Your Foundations (which is not in my playlist) and do Menu ->  Player Options ->  Play, AC/DC does not get added to the playlist and start playing.....the Oasis song starts over.  I still see no way to start playing the AC/DC song other than to select it (thereby adding it to the playlist), getting into the playlist (which can be cumbersome depending on your position in the tree), navigating to the newly added song and selecting it.  That's not to say there isn't an easier way...I just haven't managed to find it.  The odd thing is, from the "Search For Music" view, there is an "Add to Playlist and Play" op
tion that doesn't seem to be available from any other view.
> I will say that I hadn't even seen the Search for Music view util seeing it mentioned in this thread, which is really sweet.
> There seems to be this attitude that unless you can fix it, code it, supply a patch, etc, your observations / opinions aren't worth much, which is ridiculous.  I write a proprietary software packages (some extremely large projects as well) for the company I work for.  Some of (most of?) the best improvements to these packages have come from end users' (who cannot not implement their ideas) "what if I could...."s and "It would work better for me if..."s, etc. 		 	   		


I'm with Scott on this. There may be a lot of power available in this, 
but simple it is not.


-- 
              R. Geoffrey Newbury