[mythtv-users] fc4.ppc, Mac Mini and MythTV

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:
>>
>>> Mike wrote:
>>>> Chris Ribe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity,   
>>>>> perhaps.
>>>>> Other than that, why?
>>>> You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of   
>>>> iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA)   
>>>> Have you ever used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you   
>>>> understand the conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and  
>>>> does?
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
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>>> OH MY GOD!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
>>>
>>> And I thought about this for a bit. My biggest pet peeve with  
>>> iTunes:
>>> playlists.
>>> Who thinks that is a good idea? Not me!
>>> If I come home from the record shoppe (Yes, I actually BUY  
>>> physical  pieces of plastic encoded in various ways with music)  
>>> with 5 new  CD's and a couple of LP's (Audacity rules!), after I  
>>> get done  ripping them and setting up the ID3 tags, the last  
>>> thing I want to  do is have to manually add them to a freaking  
>>> playlist! They should  just be there. I set MythMusic to look at  
>>> a directory and it plays  anything in that directory (Yes, I set  
>>> my only "playlist" in  MythMusic to "All my music"). Having to  
>>> add the files to the iTunes  library is the biggest waste of my  
>>> time I have ever encountered. If  I want to listen to music, it  
>>> just is there.
>>>
>>> Mike, rock on. At least someone understands!
>>>
>>> Matt
>>
>> You do know that you can use the Browse bar, right? Command-B  
>> (Ctrl-B  on Windows). I have mine on by default so I forget that  
>> some people  don't know it's there. Click your artist, double- 
>> click your album and  it starts playing. How much easier do you  
>> need it to be? The only  time I use playlists is when I'm burning  
>> a compilation CD.
>>
>> "Adding files to the Library is the biggest waste of time?"  
>> Really?  Dragging and dropping a folder of music onto the iTunes  
>> window is  that time-consuming? Or maybe the time it takes to  
>> select File>Add  Folder to Library, choose the folder and click OK  
>> if you don't like  drag and drop. Or are you talking about how  
>> hard it is to add a CD  you've just bought to the Library? You  
>> know.. popping it in, waiting  for it to finish, then taking the  
>> CD out again.
>>
>> Please tell me how much easier it is to do these things in  
>> MythMusic  so I can switch.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> Brad
>
>
> Brad,
> Please. You are killing me.
>
> No keyboard or mouse on Mini. No CTRL-B. No drag anything. I have a  
> remote control for the box, that is it.
>
> And so far I am only proving that it is [i]impossible[/i] to Myth  
> [u]in Linux[/u] on a Mac! Which was totally not what I set out to do.
>
> I am not in a single machine environment. My main workstation is  
> Suse 10.0. My server is FC2 (hey, it still runs like a champ! why  
> screw with it?). The picture frame on my wall is XP and my TV/ 
> stereo machine is the Mac Mini, which was OS X Tiger, but is now  
> FC4. I do not store my MP3's all willy-nilly "because iTunes will  
> do the sorting". I store them based on /<artist>/<year>_<album>/ 
> <track> - <artist> - <album> - <title>.mp3. This has evolved over  
> years of ripping my music collection. I am closing in on 9000 mp3  
> files, organized in a way that I like and that has proven to work,  
> on the server. Do you know what a pain in the arse it is to  
> reorganize this because I mistakenly fire up iTunes and have not  
> reset that "Let iTunes F with your collection because we know  
> better than you" check box? Same story in WMP, which runs on a  
> laptop I have here.
>
> iTunes works for you. Good. Fine. Go enjoy it.
> iTunes does not work for me. Good. Fine. I will not use it if I do  
> not have to.
>
> Getting MythMusic to work is not the goal here. Getting MythTV, as  
> a whole, to work within Linux on PowerPC hardware is.
>
> Thank you.
> Matt

I'm not questioning your objective. Of course I hope you get  
everything working the way you need it to on whatever OS you'd like.  
Whatever your findings will make MythTV better for more people. In  
fact, once you figure it all out, I plan on getting a new machine to  
replace my son's mini and using it as my front end so I can get this  
noisy monster tower out of my living room. I only questioned your  
comment that iTunes doesn't have some features that MythMusic has  
which is why you prefer it. I thought I was missing something.