[mythtv-users] MythMusic Request

[Steve Hodge]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Bob Sully <rcs at malibyte.net> wrote:

>
> Hi all....
>
> I have been playing with MythMusic, trying to set up playlists.  Maybe I'm
> in the minority here, but I organize my music by directory as follows:
>
> [mythtv at vader: ~]$ lsl /audio
> total 176
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk    36864 2009-08-27 08:00 60-70/
> drwsrwsrwx  9 mythtv disk     4096 2008-05-25 22:03 incoming/
> drwx------  2 root   root    16384 2009-03-18 20:26 lost+found/
> drwxrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk    40960 2006-08-15 06:29 Top500RockSongs/
> drwsrwsrwx  3 mythtv disk     4096 2009-08-20 21:55 Buffett/
> drwxrwxrwx 14 root   disk     4096 2009-09-08 21:58 ./
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2008-03-04 20:31 Celtic/
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2009-08-22 09:54 Country/
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2002-12-12 22:07 Techno/
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2006-06-21 22:09 Reggae/
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk    36864 2009-08-20 23:20 80-90-00/
> drwxr-xr-x 38 root   root     4096 2009-11-17 08:13 ../
> drwsrwsrwx  2 mythtv disk     4096 2009-01-18 23:27 xmas/
>
> All the stuff in "60-70" and "80-90-00" is rock of most all genres from
> those decades.
>
> I like to set up playlists which just include each directory individually,
> and some which might be combinations of several directories, e.g.:
>
> RockMix1 = 60-70 + 80-90-00
> RockMix2 = RockMix1+ Top500RockSongs
> Mix3 = RockMix2 + Buffett + Reggae
>
> etc.
>
> Many of my mp3 files were ripped from my own CDs and the ID3 tags often
> don't have the right years (for example, if they were ripped from a
> "Greatest Hits" disc, or Grip might have assigned the wrong genre, etc.).
> Even some of the files I buy from Amazon often get these wrong, so that's
> why I group 'em by directory.
>
> The playlist editor/selector has improved quite a bit from 0.21 but still
> lacks the ability to select files by directory.  I'd like to request this
> as a feature in 0.23... ;-)
>
> Does anyone else out there do it this way, or am I just an oddity? ;-)
>
> By the way - thanks for the option to upmix to 5.1...sounds much better!
>

What I've done to make this sort of setup work is to set the genres to match
the directories (I don't find the genres otherwise useful). Then you can
select songs by genre and it all works fine. If you're importing stuff
fairly frequently this might not be practical for you, but if you're
collection is reasonable stable it should work.

Cheers,
Steve
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