iPod & generic mp3 player support (was: Re: [mythtv] mythmusic tree construction - can it be changed ?)

[Eskil Heyn Olsen]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:40 -0700, Vikas Rangarajan wrote:
> Shoutcast support is cool. Are you planning to add ripping of streams
> as well :) ?

Not for now, but it should be fairly straight forward to add it, either
using begin/end time or metadata (ie. just record all songs and store,
or record artists that you already have stuff with).

> Nick Parkinson and I have done some work on rewriting the mythmusic
> tree code.
> Our new "theme" has two trees on the mythmusic screen (one below the
> other): 

Is this the amp3mythmusic thing ?

> It would be cool if we made the design flexible enough to allow this
> design and the current design (including the "splitartist artist
> album" view)
> to coexist. 

I think it'll be ok. All I want to do for now is rewrite the components
the load the metadata and builds the tree. I don't plan to touch any UI
parts at this point.

> I would also like to customize the tree structure(s) using theme files
> alone.
> Is this a desirable direction for the gui? I understand that the
> upcoming switch 
> to libmythui for the widgets will impact this somewhat.

I don't know what the plans for that mythui is.

eskil
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