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tim at livingstonautomation

Feb 4, 2007, 7:43 PM

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Re: Using Wikipedia as a source of artist information for MythMusic

I was making note of this exact thing recently. Although the Myth system
brings all this media to your fingertips, applications such as Amarok
make mythmusic feel lean on features and leaves one wanting more.

I had thoughts of proposing this, and I guess here is my opportunity:

Can an interface for Amarok be created for MythTV? Amarok does a great
job of managing the music library, pulling information from a wide
variety of sources based on context, maintaining podcasts, and even
interfacing with portable media devices.

Lets not re-invent the wheel- Make MythMusic a remote-friendly interface
for some already incredible music management software... And personally
I like being able to pick a database format and use it as a standard.

Just a brainstorm...... for what its worth....

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:33 -0500, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> I've been looking at ways to pull more information into the MythMusic
> displays, and see that Wikipedia has an impressive number of classical
> composers. It's probably even better with popular artists. Seems
> like a good source for more background while browsing or playing
> music.
>
> So far, I've added the years of the composer's life and death (where
> applicable) and a Wikipedia URL to the database. Preliminary patch
> and database update at
> <http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/artistinfo.tgz>.
>
> As well as using that information as another display or sort option, I
> was thinking of pulling up the composer's Wikipedia entry as a
> visualizer, if I can prod MythBrowser into cooperating. Has anyone
> tried anything similar? Any other thoughts or interest?
>
> --Wendy
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ross.campbell at gmail

Feb 10, 2007, 2:05 PM

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Re: Using Wikipedia as a source of artist information for MythMusic [In reply to]

On 2/4/07, Timothy Livingston <tim[at]livingstonautomation.com> wrote:
> Can an interface for Amarok be created for MythTV?

While I'd love to see this, I say it's unlikely. Amarok has a lot of
dependencies.

HOWEVER there are some libraries used by Amarok that I think _could_
be interesting for mythtv:

TagLib: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html

libvisual - http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/v2/
I'd *REALLY* like to have this optionally included or included in
addition to goom - There's already a patch -
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231873 - some argued
that libvisual development is stagnant, but I believe mythtv's goom is
still an old one and hasn't been sync'ed with goom2k4, so... ?

libgpod - http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod.html - mytharchive -> ipod anyone?

> Amarok does a great
> job of managing the music library, pulling information from a wide
> variety of sources based on context, maintaining podcasts, and even
> interfacing with portable media devices.

I really like the streaming player in Amarok...
But it doesn't have a great UI for use from 15 feet away, and it has
too many "windows"

> Lets not re-invent the wheel- Make MythMusic a remote-friendly interface
> for some already incredible music management software...

Due to the number of dependencies for amarok, I highly doubt there
will be support for making amarok a dependency of mythtv

> And personally
> I like being able to pick a database format and use it as a standard.

oh, and then there's that... amarok uses sqlite. MythTV uses mysql. My
feeling is that a music player should not store metadata information
in its database that isn't also stored in id3 tags.

-Ross
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