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linux at m-thomson

Apr 13, 2003, 3:08 PM

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Mythmusic - shuffle by album?

Hi folks

Thanks again for all the help - I now have 0.8 running off one boot volume
and CVS running from another. Most satisfactory.

Is there any interest in adding a Shuffle mode to mythmusic that shuffles
*by album*?

E.g. At the last song in an album, a random choice is made of all the albums
in the playlist, and the next track is the first off that album. Then track
2, 3, 4, ... N and then another random selection.

I suspect this isn't the simplest thing to code (?) but for those of us with
eclectic musical tastes, this avoids Marilyn Manson cutting in on Vivaldi,
which is a bit disconcerting to say the least!

Hope someone with better C++ than me is interested in scratching this
itch...

Cheers
Mike

dert at pobox

Apr 15, 2003, 5:00 PM

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Re: Mythmusic - shuffle by album? [In reply to]

I believe the goal with the new playlist model was to allow playlists
of playlists. Therefore, one should be able to easily implement album
shuffling as a more general playlist shuffling feature. This would
differ from normal shuffling by retaining a sense of top-level (or
bottom-level?) hierarchy. After implementing this feature, shuffling
albums is as simple as creating playlists of all albums and adding
them to a super-playlist.

On Apr 13, at 23:08, Mike Thomson encoded a 0.9K recording:
> Is there any interest in adding a Shuffle mode to mythmusic that
> shuffles *by album*?

edward.wildgoose at frmhedge

Apr 16, 2003, 1:26 AM

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Re: Mythmusic - shuffle by album? [In reply to]

Seems clunky to actually have to *create* the playlist containing each album
though. Is there a UI way of being able to treat each album as a playlist
or a collection of tracks...?

> I believe the goal with the new playlist model was to allow playlists
> of playlists. Therefore, one should be able to easily implement album
> shuffling as a more general playlist shuffling feature. This would
> differ from normal shuffling by retaining a sense of top-level (or
> bottom-level?) hierarchy. After implementing this feature, shuffling
> albums is as simple as creating playlists of all albums and adding
> them to a super-playlist.
>
>
> On Apr 13, at 23:08, Mike Thomson encoded a 0.9K recording:
> > Is there any interest in adding a Shuffle mode to mythmusic that
> > shuffles *by album*?
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jcaputo1 at comcast

Apr 16, 2003, 7:49 AM

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RE: Mythmusic - shuffle by album? [In reply to]

Hmmm... one thing I've been thinking about recently is the ability of
mythmusic to somehow read, import, export, or otherwise deal with standard
.m3u files for playlists. This would have a number of benefits:

- Ability to maintain a common set of playlists for use with mythmusic &
other media players
- Easy & powerful ways to create/manage playlists (offline) already exist

I have my music collection on a 30GB external USB/Firewire drive that I take
with me to work, then plug into my Myth box when I get home. It would be
really nice if I could just maintain a set of .m3u files that worked in both
locations.

In the short term, I might just come up with a shell/MySQL script that would
read the .m3u files and create the corresponding playlists in the database,
but maybe someone can come up with a more elegant solution...

-Joe C.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces[at]snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces[at]snowman.net]On Behalf Of Edward Wildgoose
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 4:27 AM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Mythmusic - shuffle by album?
>
>
> Seems clunky to actually have to *create* the playlist containing
> each album
> though. Is there a UI way of being able to treat each album as a playlist
> or a collection of tracks...?

edward.wildgoose at frmhedge

Apr 16, 2003, 8:55 AM

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Re: Mythmusic - shuffle by album? [In reply to]

I'm guessing that you want to hook into the quick scan for new songs at
startup, get any playlists then and create the myth objects...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1[at]comcast.net>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev[at]snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv] Mythmusic - shuffle by album?

> Hmmm... one thing I've been thinking about recently is the ability of
> mythmusic to somehow read, import, export, or otherwise deal with standard
> .m3u files for playlists. This would have a number of benefits:
>
> - Ability to maintain a common set of playlists for use with mythmusic &
> other media players
> - Easy & powerful ways to create/manage playlists (offline) already exist
>
> I have my music collection on a 30GB external USB/Firewire drive that I
take
> with me to work, then plug into my Myth box when I get home. It would be
> really nice if I could just maintain a set of .m3u files that worked in
both
> locations.
>
> In the short term, I might just come up with a shell/MySQL script that
would
> read the .m3u files and create the corresponding playlists in the
database,
> but maybe someone can come up with a more elegant solution...
>
> -Joe C.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces[at]snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces[at]snowman.net]On Behalf Of Edward Wildgoose
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 4:27 AM
> > To: Development of mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv] Mythmusic - shuffle by album?
> >
> >
> > Seems clunky to actually have to *create* the playlist containing
> > each album
> > though. Is there a UI way of being able to treat each album as a
playlist
> > or a collection of tracks...?
>
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