MusicEvolution - a new music plugin for MediaPortal (3 Viewers)

[emphatic]

With the intention of improving the current music section in MediaPortal, we have decied to start work on the design, then development of a new plugin that we've named MusicEvolution.

Current status:

Plugin team is currently looking for willing coders, preferably someone with experience.
Development planning is ongoing.

Team so far consists of:
Emphatic (planning)
Tringler (coding)
CaNe| (coding)

Planned features:

* Support for portable devices (after a one time setup, instant recognition with local/device stored playlist support)
* Global search box with input for keyboard and SMS-style (for your remote control)
* Additional playlist paths can be set up in MP configuration
* Careful RegEx parser for "automatic" finding of artist/album-data from files with lack of proper ID3 tagging
* Support for online data grabbing with script support like Moving Pictures for localization
* User interaction for unmatched/conflicting files directly in GUI like MP TV-Series
* Commit downloaded data to ID3-tag (available as "Hidden feature" in the GUI?)
* "Hidden" advanced GUI options - show file path | mark database entries as incorrect/re-scan
* Multiple layouts to choose from in GUI
* Ability to give the plugin a custom name to show up in Home/Plugins list
* In-Plugin Artwork browser - A browser to watch the scraper results for artwork, and also browse, select, delete existing artwork 

[B]Available database fields:
[/B]Artist | Album artist | Album | Track name | Genre | Duration | Remixer | Album artwork | Artist artwork
Album rating | Track rating | Bitrate | Sample rate | Bit size | Sample freq. | Composer | Disc. no
Date added | Year | Lyrics | Resume marker data (for audio books) | Custom | Mood

"Album" and "Artist" would need some clever planning to allow for biography/discovery data as well.

[B]Context menu[/B] (content dynamic options when browsing track, album or artist views):
* Add to playlist
* Change view
* Artist fanart menu (enable/disable, like MP TV-Series)
* Show extended options ("hidden GUI options") | pin code required
* Settings | Show lyrics: on/off | Randomize available fanart: on/off

[B]Playlist specific options:[/B]
* Merge current playlist into saved playlist (select this, and all your saved playlists will be listed)
  -> confirmation "Are you sure?" yes/no -> save playlist as new yes/no
* Edit playlist : re-arrange by artists | re-arrange by album | re-arrange by genre | re-arrange by play time
(this will change the sorting descending, choose a "re-arrange" again to sort ascending)
* Shuffle current playlist
* When saving a playlist, you can set a "mood" marker for it, like "Party", "Make out-music", "Fancy dinner".
You can use pre-defined or name them "on the fly"

 

[tourettes]

Just one suggestion, drop the "My" from name

 

[JoeSmith]

Just one suggestion, drop the "My" from name

Offtopic : Music Evolution

A new music plugin is really "needed". MP just does it okay, but it could be more fancy.

 

[emphatic]

Just one suggestion, drop the "My" from name

This will be considered.
Emph

 

[ysmp]

hi emphatic !..... excelent ... i will like to volunteer to be a tester for this plugin .... when you guys get to time for testing it ,
please let me know ..

Thank you guys for this plugin ...

ho and i thing you forgat the "T" in Tringler name ..in the first post ...

 

[joz]

emphatic for picking this one up.
I followed your discussion on the other my music thread and I think there has been some quite nice ideas for all this. Looking forward to it!

 

[Spragleknas]

Just one suggestion, drop the "My" from name

+1
Although I really hope that name can be customized (like MP TVSeries etc.)

There is also a plugin for Spotify being made (by seco). Integration of this would be very cool! (Co-operation?)

 

[eXisTa]

I totally agree with the fact that the current Music plugin isn't doing it for us.
Unfortunately I am no coder but I am willing to test any release that needs testing.

 

[emphatic]

First post updated with new team member.

CaNe| is currently handling the MyTorrents plugin + more stuff regarding MediaPortal and I'm pretty excited to have him on board with us!

Emph

 

[Psycho Reptile]

Another tester available here if you want me...