[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:17 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:24:43PM +0000, David Watkins wrote:
>>> > OK so educate me tell me how it should work? Keep in mind I can do the
>>> > test case of jumping from ABBA to Meatloaf on my system takes 4 key
>>> > presses with a keyboard attached and 26 using the remote
>>>
>>> Two options I've seen which would reduce those 26 key presses to something saner
>>>
>>> 1)  Like the address book on my mobile phone.  If I press '1' once
>>> then it jumps to the first name beginning with 'A'  pressing it again
>>> take me to the B's and again to the C's.  Pressing '2' takes me to the
>>> 'D's, E's etc.
>>>
>>> 2)  Like an IPOD.  After a couple of seconds of scrolling through the
>>> list normally then a big 'A' pops up and from then on you are
>>> scrolling straight through the letters of the alphabet, and you stop
>>> when you get to the letter you want.
>>
>>   Or you could just use the old genre->artist->album approach that a wide
>> array of other media players employ.
>
>>   Nonsense. It should not take nearly so long. The old interface didn't.
>>
>>   That was without employing a page down button.
>
> nonsense to you!
> with <0.25 I used the directory tree and so I did not have all the
> artists in my library in one giant list. even if I did it was possible
> to break it up into sections. no longer. now if I want to choose a
> specific artist I have to scroll through the whole list.
>
> Also, this new version does implement a filtered approach, that may
> still not make it much easier if you have a lot of artists in a
> particular genre.
>

I used the directory setup in <.25.  I would use the # keys to jump to
that percent down the list.  It would take very few keystrokes to get
where I wanted.

I have been unable to use .25's music.  Heck - one of my frontends
(running gentoo 0.25_pre20120223),  won't even pop up menus when I
switch views.