[mythtv-users] Alternatives to MythMusic in 0.25, has anyone already found one?

[jedi]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 07:02:55PM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let's be clear Eric, no-one is saying it should be replaced, simply that we
> > don't like the "everything is a playlist" concept and that we preferred the
> > old method of having a directory tree that you could simply browse around
> > and if you clicked play at the top level it played all your music, if you
> > clicked at an artist it played everything by that artist, if you clicked at
> > an album it played the album and if you clicked on a song it played a song.
> 
> Ok.  So the .25 mythmusic has all of that except the top level select
> all.  Is that really something that people really used?  Sure, I did
> it a few times as a lark in previous releases but in practice I found
> the result just too weird.
> 
> A lot of these posts read like people who haven't tried it for more
> than a few minutes or somehow didn't find the built-in playlist editor

     Sounds like a usability problem to me. It's still the same basic
issue regardless of whether or not you want to belittle end users over it.

[deletia]

     Hiding the old way of doing things in a menu and giving it a non-intuitive
name is probably doing to cause confusion and frustration.