[mythtv-users] mythmusic issues

[Stephen Cole]

I've been using myth for a while and not had many problems with mythtv, 
mythvideo or mythdvd, but mythmusic has given me nothing but problems.  
It crashes about every other time I change the selected music.  I 
haven't seen many posts about mythmusic so maybe somebody out there is 
using and can give me some help.  Here's a list of problems, issues, 
requests, etc.
1) After selecting a bunch of songs, escaping back from the select music 
section and selecting "play music", mythfrontend crashes.  I can't find 
much in the log of any use.  This happens about every other time I 
select music.  I've got about 7000 songs in the database if that 
matters.  After the crash the two music tables are corrupted and need to 
be repaired.  If I try selecting again it usually works.  But then the 
next time I go in to select music and play it crashes.  Sometimes it 
crashes after playing a few songs, sometimes in the middle of a song and 
sometimes while changing songs.  The next song it tries to play will 
usually play the next time around, so it's not a corrupt file.
2) Going from the active play screen to the edit current playlist 
(option 3), works.  I can select some new stuff, unselect some current 
stuff.  But when i hit esc to go back to the play screen the current 
playlist is not changed from what I selected and sometimes the screen 
completely freezes and I have to kill the frontend to restart.  Which 
then leaves the tables corrupt and they have to be repaired.  It doesn't 
seem to matter if I change the selection in any specific way, the 
current playlist is never updated whether I add new songs or remove 
existing songs.  I suspect it might be related to the number of songs 
because as a test I wiped the database and pointed mytmusic to a 
different directory with only a few albums in it.  Things seemed to work 
better there and I could change the current playlist selection.
3) Often times when I escape out from playing music and am at the main 
music menu, I have no cursor.  Nothing is selected and I can't seem to 
get a cursor so have to restart the frontend.  I'm using blackbox and 
have checked and double-checked all the settings with what I've found 
posted here (FocusModel=SloppyFocus and focusNewWindows=true) am I 
missing something?
4) The editor for changing the cd information in the ripping utility 
works very poorly.  Tab and arrow keys are combined so that its not 
really possible to go through and change title and artist (for 
compilation cds).  I can't seem to select the title cell without erasing 
it, and I can't navigate to the artist cell without typing something 
into the title cell.  Then once i've done one row I can only go to the 
third column and can't get back or on to the next row, so I have to 
escape all the way out and come back in.
5) Compilation artist is a great feature but as I asked in an early post 
(and got no reply) it seems wrong to not display the actual artist name 
when the song is being played.  Can this be changed with a configuration 
option of some kind?
6) The edit tag info feature is nice, but why does it only work from the 
player screen?  Seems like it would be nice if it worked from the 
browse/select music screen.  Plus you could then edit an artist or album 
name and have it update all songs by that artist or all of the songs on 
an album.  It's also really annoying to have to arrow down to select 
"save to db and file", hit select, and arrow down again to hit yes I'm 
sure I want to save it to file.  Would it not be better to have some 
config option that said "keep db and files in sync, always save to db 
and files".

thanks,
stephen