[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music

[Neil Cooper]

--- On Fri, 2/24/12, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.25 Music
> To: "Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Friday, February 24, 2012, 8:16 AM
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM,
> Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Scott & Nicole
> Harris
> > <snharris99 at live.com>
> wrote:
> >> I don't think your suggestion of using "Album
> Artist" will do much with 0.25
> >> (I could be very wrong).  The Navigation Tree is
> pre-filled with
> >> categories....All, Album, Artist, Rating.  Also,
> it may help a little with
> >> compilation albums, but it doesn't help much with
> all the individual songs
> >> that my wife has purchased from ITunes that she
> wants organize "Like X" and
> >> all the songs she's bought from Amazon that she
> want "Like Y".
> >
> > I'll admit that I hadn't considered this case -
> personally I'd
> > probably fudge the Genre tag because I never use it
> anyway.
> >
> > Re: making it work with MythMusic - I guess if you need
> a feature you
> > could ask really nicely? ;o)
> >
> >> Also, none of this allows me to just navigate to
> Kangaroo Cry and just play
> >> it.  I don't do playlists, never have, [hopefully]
> never will.  I have
> >> always been a jump around and listen to individual
> songs on whims, or entire
> >> albums in the background type.
> >
> > This I understand - I gave up on MythMusic because the
> playlist thing
> > drove me nuts. A software-Squeezebox solution has been
> much less
> > painful for me - some day I might even get around to
> writing a halfway
> > decent MythTV plugin for it based on the XML api it
> provides.
> >
> > - Chris
> 
> 
> I use Jaikoz to tag, multi-platform (java), works great,
> ties in with
> MusicBrainz and discogs. My music collection tags are "clean
> as a
> whistle" for all but my new music finds from blogs and such,
> which all
> are in their own separate folder.
> 
> That said, the current MythMusic (0.24) ability to display
> the folder
> layout is essential for my music collection. I have music
> from various
> sources (various music stores, my ripped CD's, HD versus
> non, etc plus
> all my housemates music as well). and I want to be able to
> see that
> separation in MythMusic.
> 
> The other option is to use a system like WinAmp's media
> player with
> it's smart playlists and such (which, in the end is my vote
> for how
> the on screen layout for MythMusic should look, like
> WinAmp's Media
> Library (minus the non-music stuff).
> 
> 
> 
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> Steve
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The problem with 'smart' anything is that it is based on one person's idea for how they like things done. Consequently it can NEVER satisfy 100% of the people all the time.

Sure provide all the smart options you like, but don't drop the simple case (good ol' directory browsing). There will always be people that don't 'fit the model', or grumpy old men (like me) that just find needless complexity and computers second-guessing you badly just f***ing annoying.

Neil.