[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Scott & Nicole Harris
> <snharris99 at live.com> wrote:
>> I don't think your suggestion of using "Album Artist" will do much with 0.25
>> (I could be very wrong).  The Navigation Tree is pre-filled with
>> categories....All, Album, Artist, Rating.  Also, it may help a little with
>> compilation albums, but it doesn't help much with all the individual songs
>> that my wife has purchased from ITunes that she wants organize "Like X" and
>> all the songs she's bought from Amazon that she want "Like Y".
>
> I'll admit that I hadn't considered this case - personally I'd
> probably fudge the Genre tag because I never use it anyway.
>
> Re: making it work with MythMusic - I guess if you need a feature you
> could ask really nicely? ;o)
>
>> Also, none of this allows me to just navigate to Kangaroo Cry and just play
>> it.  I don't do playlists, never have, [hopefully] never will.  I have
>> always been a jump around and listen to individual songs on whims, or entire
>> albums in the background type.
>
> This I understand - I gave up on MythMusic because the playlist thing
> drove me nuts. A software-Squeezebox solution has been much less
> painful for me - some day I might even get around to writing a halfway
> decent MythTV plugin for it based on the XML api it provides.

There was mythsqueeze, but I am not sure if it is stil in development
- IIRC George Galt wrote it and he may respond to this or answer a
friendly email.