[mythtv] improvement to MythMusic RIP location

[Mark Friedgan]

Slightly off-topic but what i'd really love to have is the MusicBrainz
tagger built into myth-music!!!


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:18:59 +0100, Tako Schotanus
<quintesse at palacio-cristal.com> wrote:
> James Armstrong wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >>>> I've got at least 500 CDs that I intend to rip (not sure what
> >>>> that'll be
> >>>> in gigs)... I've got around 200 albums already as ogg and the current
> >>>> interface isn't bad but it is getting a little unwieldy.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> How is it unwieldy?  People whine and moan about it, but I've not
> >>> seen one description of either a) how it's bad, or b) how to make it
> >>> better that would actually work with a remote control.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Well, for me there are 5 things that would make it already a lot more
> >> usable:
> >>
> >> 1. Have something like splitartist that includes album names.
> >> Especially usefull if you have a lot of albums with various artists
> >> but even so, believe it or not, I often can remember album names
> >> without knowing exactly the artist name.
> >>
> >> 2. Have an "all" item in the splitartist that will contain all
> >> artists for those times that you're just browsing. (in combination
> >> with #1 it might be usefull to have an "all artists" and "all albums")
> >>
> >> 3. Have multiple levels for splitartist (again to be combined with #1
> >> and #2 if possible of course) because some letters still have so many
> >> items in them that scrolling around in them still is difficult.
> >>
> >> 4. Make it so that the option "list as shuffled" has no effect on the
> >> "all my music" entry. I like seeing what is next but I always have
> >> this option turned off because it makes the "all my music" entry
> >> impossible to browse through.
> >>
> >> 5. Have some kind of menu where you could select things like: "play
> >> current album" and "play current artist" which would mean clearing
> >> the curent playlist and setting it to the current album or artist.
> >>
> >> No spectacular changes as you can see, just things that would make
> >> life a bit more pleasant :-)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Tako
> >>
> >>
> > I think a start would be to have a similar interface that the 'Find
> > Programs' uses where there is a column of 0-9 and A-Z that would speed
> > up searching for the Artist.
> 
> I agree that both should use a similar system. Which one I leave to
> others to decide, but both of them definitely need multiple levels :-)
> 
> If there's currently one screen I really never use it's Find Programs
> because selecting one letter still leaves me with a zillion entries.
> 
> I'm still thinking that we should have a alpha-num on-screen keyboard
> for thess kind of things, kind of like you have for console games where
> you can enter your name when you get a high score. Then both the Find
> Programs and the Artist/Album screens could just have a simple text box
> where you can enter the first characters of the item you are looking
> for. The list would be updated each time you enter a letter.
> 
> If the keyboard is implemented as a pop-up whenever the text box gets
> focus it would save a lot of screen real-estate. I imagine it would also
> be easier to implement (otherwise the space for the keyboard would have
> to be designed into each screen that uses it).
> 
> How about that idea?
> 
> -Tako
> 
> 
> 
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