MusicEvolution - a new music plugin for MediaPortal (5 Viewers)
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Suggestions / Ideas to ponder
1. Store MP rating within mp3 file
If you synch your music collection with another media player then that media player can share MP's ratings. If you move/copy/rename your music files, or if you reinstall mediaportal you won't loose all your MP ratings. AFAIK - There are currently two methods for writing rating into the ID3tag (WMP and itunes use different system), mediaportal should write to both. Then watch music share directory and monitor the rating(s) within the ID3tag, if the rating changes. ie previously WMP=3,iTunes=3 becomes WMP=3,iTunes=5 then MP should update rating to 5 in both tags, because obviously 5 is the new rating implemented by another media player (eg your ipod).
2. Better tag support for skins
When browsing music, then need the following tags
#selected.artist , #selected.albumartist, #selected.album, #selected.thumb
This will allow full fan art support, currently you can't show the currently selected album artist fanart when you read the album sub level
3. Music Video integration
Link an mp3 file with matching music video file. Option in Music Evolution Config to automatically play music video instead of mp3 file when track with matching video comes up in the playlist and you are currently viewing nowplaying window. When music video has played it goes back to next track in the playlist.
4. Better integration with My Lyrics
When viewing now playing window if lyrics are available then option for lyrics to be displayed in a small section of the screen without leaving the now playing window.
5. Proper support for visualizations
Currently fullscreen viz to music support is a bit buggy.
6. Fireplace mode
Cool looking fireplace visualization while listening to music.
PS - I don't think you should waste time on people with incorrectly tagged music and I don't think you should dilute your efforts/time but adding support for renaming tags/parsing music files/downloading missing tags, there are already a lot of programs available for users to retag their files. I think the plugin should just flag any music files with missing id3tag fields with a warning and a link to programs to correct the tags.
1. Store MP rating within mp3 file
If you synch your music collection with another media player then that media player can share MP's ratings. If you move/copy/rename your music files, or if you reinstall mediaportal you won't loose all your MP ratings. AFAIK - There are currently two methods for writing rating into the ID3tag (WMP and itunes use different system), mediaportal should write to both. Then watch music share directory and monitor the rating(s) within the ID3tag, if the rating changes. ie previously WMP=3,iTunes=3 becomes WMP=3,iTunes=5 then MP should update rating to 5 in both tags, because obviously 5 is the new rating implemented by another media player (eg your ipod).
2. Better tag support for skins
When browsing music, then need the following tags
#selected.artist , #selected.albumartist, #selected.album, #selected.thumb
This will allow full fan art support, currently you can't show the currently selected album artist fanart when you read the album sub level
3. Music Video integration
Link an mp3 file with matching music video file. Option in Music Evolution Config to automatically play music video instead of mp3 file when track with matching video comes up in the playlist and you are currently viewing nowplaying window. When music video has played it goes back to next track in the playlist.
4. Better integration with My Lyrics
When viewing now playing window if lyrics are available then option for lyrics to be displayed in a small section of the screen without leaving the now playing window.
5. Proper support for visualizations
Currently fullscreen viz to music support is a bit buggy.
6. Fireplace mode
Cool looking fireplace visualization while listening to music.
PS - I don't think you should waste time on people with incorrectly tagged music and I don't think you should dilute your efforts/time but adding support for renaming tags/parsing music files/downloading missing tags, there are already a lot of programs available for users to retag their files. I think the plugin should just flag any music files with missing id3tag fields with a warning and a link to programs to correct the tags.
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Ideally, the plugin would only show the MP rating in the GUI, and adapt the correct rating type automatically for the device in question (if you have setup the plugin to include ratings for external devices), so that no incompatibilities arise within the external device's database architecture. For most "unlocked" devices (i.e. not made by Apple) this sounds plausible, I'll bring it up with the programmers... Hope you agree with this?
One of the most important things about the plugin is usability in the GUI, so this is of course very important to the plugin team as well.
Interesting. We'll just have to see if this can be done (accepted by BASS player).
Lyrics will have it's own database field, so that should be a skinning decision as all of the database fields *will* be available to skinners.
Don't know if this is something a plugin will be able to change. I think this is more of a core MediaPortal player question.
See above answer.
Being "one of those people" with some music tagged incorrectly (I have now tagged all my music the best I can, but STILL get discrepancies in MediaPortal) I have to disagree. As the plugin won't display data lifted from ID3 tags, but gathered from API databases ID3 tags will only be used to correctly identify the music on an album/release level.
Having warning flags in your beautiful Media PC GUI isn't very pretty, and is not what we wish for. You will however get a pop-up when a mis-match is found so that you directly can:
View the folder/file name of the album to be imported and select a fitting artist/album from a list in the GUI. You can then (optionally) write the ID3 with this updated data, when you are 100% sure that it's the correct information.
I have music that I've ripped years ago, and I shouldn't have to be PUNISHED for not ripping it with the latest software.
Emph