Ideas for Music Section 1.3 (2 Viewers)

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When I hear it on the radio. So I have a list with the songs, that I would be buy and add them to Mediaportal

This is a really specific use case and shouldn't be added to MP itself but instead this is something for a 3rd party background / process plugin to handle.

Hello everybody.

can MP be used to permanently record my favorite station and keep it for a defined time? Thus creating a 'buffer' of my favorite station?
 

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    One idea for the playlist view in 1.3: Indicate which songs are scobbled in. This allows me to identify where manually added songs will be added. Either by a color or maybe a seperator entry in the list?
     

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    Another suggestion: Alter the Strip Prefix in Artists field.

    Idea: Show the normal Artist name in MP and allow things like fanart to use the normal name.

    How To Setup: Generate 3 new DB fields: AlbumArtistSort, ArtistSort, AlbumSort. When scanning the DB, add normal Album, Artist & AlbumArtist fields without changing them. Then populate the mirrored 3 fields with the name changed according the users sorting preference. Strip "The, Die, Les" from the Artist names, Try to reverse person names (Bob Geldorf -> Geldorf, Bob) etc.

    For me, only having a proper Stripping of prefixes would be enough. Also this would allow people to change the setting without rescanning the complete DB (you could just update the DB fields).
     

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    A suggestion:

    Enable support to queue saved playlists. Sometimes I listen to an album, but want to start a saved playlist right after it is finished. If I press the F9/Info button while browsing my playlists, the only thing that happens is that the playlist list is disappearing. It would be nice to have some options appear instead (Rename, Add to playlist, Play Now, Play as next track).

    Emph
     

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    Another Idea related to the Show what titles are scrobbled in:

    I would like the option "Add to playlist" (Enqueue) to add the new song before any scrobbled songs. So basically scrobbling is my emergency avoid the "hang the dj" singing crowd when my own music selection runs out. So it needs to be added at a position "last own added song" (or after current song if there are no manually added songs).

    In addition to showing which songs are scrobbled in (line, color, whatever) would be a nice addition.
     

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    I would like to have the option to shuffle tracks before playback on any container/item (Genre, Album, Playlist, ...). So, for example, when pressing F9 when browsing albums, there would be an additional "Shuffle + Play" option for the currently selected album which would shuffle all the tracks in the album before they are added to the Now Playing list. Some more options like "Shuffle + Add to end" and "Shuffle + Add Next" would be nice too.
     

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    AW: Re: Ideas for Music Section 1.3

    Since i'm currently doing much work on a webservice which give's access to mp's media databases i may be have an interesting idea for MP 1.3.

    One of the main problems especially for the music section are the old database layout and the missing support for multiseat setups(that's of course the case for all databases except tv).

    But may be the above mentioned service would allow a bit more flexibility (because the database behind is hidden) and it would allow multiseat setups the problem is i don't know how much work it would need to switch from direct database access to a webservice access.
    What do you think about that?

    It is a nice idea and something to look at but I think the amount of code which is bogged down and specifically SQLite is probably too much to justify it.

    You have the actual database side (scanning, adding, updating etc) which is all tightly linked to SQLite then you also have the view definition stuff which is really messy with lots of nasty SQL. These would basically need complete rewrites :(

    Oh, this would be bad if this can't be implement. A Webservice like Follow.it or Trak.TV would be a great feature. So you can save your Ratings, and Playing-Count and synchronize it with another PC.

    Another good feature, would be adding a Song to a existing Playlist. Now a song would be add to the current Playlist, but choosing the Playlist, would be nice.

    And you should see in the Music-View which of the Tracks are in a Playlist availabe. It could be solve with coloring this tracks, or a another Indicator, maybee column with Yes and No.

    When you browsing through the Music_View you should be able to see the Playlist in a window at the same time.
     

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    I would like some new ways for creating playlists without the need for an extra plugin.

    How I would like it to work:

    1. List all available tracks by condition/filters (select from available tags)
    Artist, Album Artist, Genre, Producer, Remixer, Year (range, input earliest and latest*)
    2. The results are automatically presented as a playlist and playback will start as soon as the results are done
    3. If you press the F9 key or Info on the remote, you have a "remove condition" or "change sorting filter" choice
    4. If you select that, the music will keep playing, but you will be presented with a screen with the choices you made in #1 and can just select one option to remove it (yes/no prompt) and when you are done click an OK button and the list will show up again
    5. If the song playing has been removed from the new setting, the player will simply jump to the first of the new list

    * Adding tracks from 1990->2009 for example

    This will of course work if you have a data scraper in use, as most users won't have all the above tags available. No, I won't shut up about the need for a nice scraper or making it available by user created scripts. :D

    Cheers
    Emph
     
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