
guido.grazioli at gmail
Jul 14, 2007, 8:30 AM
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Hello all, i'm relatively new to mythtv, but let me explain my point of view: mythmusic should be left as simple as possible and should not depend neither on good id3 tagging nor external tools/ways of managing music metainfo. The action itself of "creating a playlist" or "modify a playlist content" in its intrinsic complexity is way too much for a *home* (in the sense of living room) media system. My idea is that of playlists working as keyword tagging works in blogs; each song can be tagged with any keyword (press SELECT -> play it; press MENU -> dialog with multiselect box of existing tags and textbox to add a new one). So for instance if i have that song: "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Sinister Minister" i can tag it with "wooten" (the bass player), "original soundtrack" and/or "fusion" without touching id3 tags. The best in that case would be doubling the height of each row in song listings looking as follows: 04. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Sinister Minister (big font) [wooten] [fusion] [awesome] (smaller one) So creating playlists would be as easy as to check on/off all defined tags and possibly, placing them in AND or OR relation. Actually the list of songs tagged with a keyword *is* already a playlist. Sorry if my contribution is a duplicate or just stupid, as i said i'm new to mythtv and theres alot of material to read. Guido 2007/7/13, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv [at] gmail>: > On 7/13/07, Roo <roo.watt [at] gmail> wrote: > > On 12/07/07, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv [at] gmail> wrote: > > > > > So basically Smart Playlists. > > > > > > Of course, all this is dependent on proper tagging and full db support > > > for all the id3v2.x fields. > > > > > > So basically yeah, Smart Playlists. :) > > > > But allowing the user to build the tree that organises *their* music > > collection the way that make most sense to them. Merging the > > collection browsing with the playlist editing makes great sense to me. > > I agree. I rather like how XBMC does that actually. you can browse > music, hit a button and see the playlist, hit it again and go back to > browsing. To add a track to the playlist while in browse mode you hit > another button, which i think defaults to "0". Similarly to that, and > how shuffle/viz/random are now, things could be mapped to the number > buttons. > > On 7/13/07, Roo <roo.watt [at] gmail> wrote: > > On 13/07/07, Stuart Auchterlonie <stuarta [at] squashedfrog> wrote: > > > There's two schools of thought on this. > > > 1) replace the currently playing song with the one i select > > > 2) add the selected song to the end of the list. > > > > > > #1 is current behaviour. > > > #2 is what i call DJ mode, or party mode. > > > > Being able to "lock on" DJ mode would be great, so if you are having a > > party you can stop people exiting a messing with the rest of your > > mythtv recordings etc. > > > > Come to think of it, in DJ mode you would want to stop the same song > > getting scheduled multiple times and prevent user B deleting user A's > > song from the playlist "cos they a sh*t". > > a DJ mode would be great, especially if you can control it via > MythWeb, so you could just have the visualization up on the tv and do > any dj management via a laptop or similar. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > mythtv-dev [at] mythtv > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > ---------------------------- Via Parri 11 48011 - Alfonsine (RA) Italy _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev [at] mythtv http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
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