Ideas for Music Section 1.3 (2 Viewers)

[robbo100]

I am trying it now!

 

[mbuzina]

There is nothing that can not be solved in SQL Yes as you say this is something like a view that goes
Composer
Album
Tracks

but you only want this view to be for albums with a genre of classical. The only way to do this currently is add a level of genre on top and then filter this on "Classical". You can then tick the skip option and it will kind of work.

Bigger problems come in if you say want to have this view but for albums with a genre of classical or opera. Currently this is not possible.

I know, SQL is turing complete I have developed quite some complex things in SQL.

The skip only works on 1 item, doesn't it. We need a general filter option then.

Another one: In Albums view I see 2 albums if I have a 2 cd box set. I can check logs & stuff later, but could it be due to different genres set to each cd of the set (I know tagging error, but I am not using genres too much).

 

[jameson_uk]

I know, SQL is turing complete I have developed quite some complex things in SQL.

I do it as a job so this is fairly simple in comparison

The skip only works on 1 item, doesn't it. We need a general filter option then.

It skips one level if there is only a single value so in reality does not work too well with these complex views

Another one: In Albums view I see 2 albums if I have a 2 cd box set. I can check logs & stuff later, but could it be due to different genres set to each cd of the set (I know tagging error, but I am not using genres too much).

I am guessing the album tags are something like "the album (CD1)" and "the album (CD2)" or the like. Make sure the album tags match. You should use the disc# tag to split between discs

 

[robbo100]

Hello again Jameson.

It seemed to work very nicely, but some of the labels don't seem to be recognised (see attached .jpg).

To be honest, even without all the labels working, the looks is soooooo much better, fixing them is very low priority!

regarding Mantis 3396 - Is this open and planned for 1.3?

Thanks

Rob

 

[jameson_uk]

It seemed to work very nicely, but some of the labels don't seem to be recognised (see attached .jpg).

Everything that works for TV should work for radio so I will have a quick look.

Edit: Skin properties are case sensitive. I think you have used #RADIO rather than #Radio

regarding Mantis 3396 - Is this open and planned for 1.3?

Not yet. It depends on whether a dev has the time to pick this up.

 

[robbo100]

Spot on!

Sorry for the silly error.

Sadly you edited your last post with the fix, so I can't click "Thanks" on your last post twice!

Cheers

Robbo100

 

[blubserl]

AW: Ideas for Music Section 1.3

hi jameson!

do you think it would be possible to bring lyrics to the now playing screen? as far as i understood, it is not possible to integrate the mylyrics plugin in the now playing screen, but maybe one could show lyrics stored as mp3tag?

thanks and greetings!

 

[jameson_uk]

Re: AW: Ideas for Music Section 1.3

hi jameson!

do you think it would be possible to bring lyrics to the now playing screen? as far as i understood, it is not possible to integrate the mylyrics plugin in the now playing screen, but maybe one could show lyrics stored as mp3tag?

thanks and greetings!

Yep

A new property is available to skinners so they could add this. #Play.Current.Lyrics will contain the lyrics embedded within ID3 tags for the current track

 

[IchBinsShort]

AW: Re: Ideas for Music Section 1.3

@IchBinsShort: You can not compare a 10-foot-UI (see 10-foot user interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) with a normal PC SW UI. You have limited screen real estate since all text needs to be large. If you would try to build a table with lets say Title, Album, Artist, Genre & Year you would have to fit it in say 50 chars max. Otherwise you can not read it from 10 feet (3 m) distance.

Totally agree. I have played around a lot with this but as soon as I add more info to one screen it ends up becoming unusable via a remote. WinAmp / MediaMonkey etc are designed for control via a mouse rather than a remote so they can get much more on screen.

Yes I understand, that a View equal like Winamp is not possible. But to me it is more about the functions of Winamp. For example in Winamp there is no fixed order of each level. On the fist view you can choose for example which of the Songs you should see. You can make a View which shows all Songs with a Rating better than 4. And on the next level you can choose between the Filters. For example you can Choose the "Genre" Filter, than you can choose on this Filter "House", and see all the Songs with Genre "House". And now you can set another Filter like "Year" and choose "2011", now you see the Songs only for "2011".

This is a function that I would be have in Mediaportal. Because in Mediaportal you have a fixed order. I hope you understand what I mean. My Englisch is not so good, that makes the explaining very difficult ;-)

 

[jameson_uk]

Re: AW: Re: Ideas for Music Section 1.3

Yes I understand, that a View equal like Winamp is not possible. But to me it is more about the functions of Winamp. For example in Winamp there is no fixed order of each level. On the fist view you can choose for example which of the Songs you should see. You can make a View which shows all Songs with a Rating better than 4. And on the next level you can choose between the Filters. For example you can Choose the "Genre" Filter, than you can choose on this Filter "House", and see all the Songs with Genre "House". And now you can set another Filter like "Year" and choose "2011", now you see the Songs only for "2011".

For me that would be more confusing...

If I go to a view that is say
GENRE
ALBUM ARTIST
ALBUM
DISC#
TRACK
then this is because that is how I want to browse my music. If I want to look at yearsI go to a different view of
YEARS
ALBUM
DISC#
TRACK

being flexible would mean that each time I choose a level I would need to select what filter to apply next and then go the list. To get to a track in the top list I would press ok four times. If I had to select the view each time I would then end up pressing ok 7 times...

I would like to introduce something more flexible but it is really difficult. Perhaps this could be achieved by pressing a button on the remote to drill down by various options (say 1 = genre, 2= rating, 3= album artist, 4= track ...) but this is still problematic to drill down to say 2011 as you would need more options for year than there are buttons on a remote