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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 471355" data-attributes="member: 76888"><p>Here are some random ideas, I'll add more later.</p><p></p><p><strong>MUSIC FILE STRUCTURE</strong></p><p>My music videos are stored E:\MUSIC VIDEOS\Artist - Title.avi</p><p>I don't use seperate folders for different artists, every video is in the one directory.</p><p>Some other users have multiple directories, because it's slow to browse with >100 files within 1x directory.</p><p>I don't think that many users use a proper directory structure for music videos</p><p>eg. E:\MUSIC VIDEOS\ARTIST\Artist - Title.avi (or) E:\MUSIC VIDEOS\ARTIST\ALBUM\Artist - Title.avi</p><p>Often torrents now contain 1-2x music videos with the album download, so some users may</p><p>have some video files within their music directory. If the music video is within the music directory</p><p>then you have the option of grabing thumbnails from folder.jpg for the album</p><p></p><p><strong>SUPPORT FOR MULTI MUSIC VIDEOS WITHIN 1X FILE</strong></p><p>Some music videos are actually DVD rips eg.</p><p>The.Black.Eyed.Peas-Elephunk.DVDrip.CD1.avi</p><p>Some users might like an option to select a file as having more than 1 video within it</p><p>Then you could mark the time zones of each video within the file</p><p>The database would then store this .avi file as multi video entries</p><p>and when playing would jump to the appropriate time and stop at the appropriate time</p><p>Kind of like virtually splitting the file into multiple avi's</p><p></p><p><strong>SCRAPING ARISTS PICTURES</strong></p><p>The existing mvids code i think uses last.fm and gets very low quality artist pictures</p><p>The audioscrober plugin does a very good job of getting artist pictures</p><p>It stores them in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists</p><p>C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\Artistsname.jpg (Thumbnail)</p><p>C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\ArtistsnameL.jpg (Larger picture)</p><p>Perhaps you could share/borrow the code from that</p><p></p><p><strong>GRABING MUSIC VIDEO THUMBNAIL IMAGE</strong></p><p>Grabbing image @ XX secounds into the video is great</p><p>I agree with above suggestion by darro. When playing a music video, if the user press CTRL+Printscreen then the current video frame will be used to replace the current video thumbnail image</p><p></p><p><strong>PARSING TEST</strong></p><p>There should be a parsing test option eg.</p><p>Filename | Artist | Title</p><p>Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze.avi | Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze</p><p><em>JimiHendrix</em> - Wind Cries Mary.avi | <em>JimiHendrix</em> | Wind cries Marry</p><p></p><p>You should be apply to right click on the 2nd file and correct the filename within the parsing test</p><p></p><p><strong>MEDIAINFO.DLL</strong></p><p>This could be used to display stream information just like in my tvseries</p><p>It has logos for 4:3 16:9 HDTV AC3 DD5.1 etc...</p><p></p><p><strong>RATE VIDEO DURING FULLSCREEN PLAYBACK</strong></p><p>Pressing the numbers 1 -> 5 will give the video a star rating</p><p></p><p><strong>SMS STYLE SHORTCUTS</strong></p><p>When browsing music share or playlist pressing numeric key should jump to the corresponding letter</p><p>This function is already incorporated within default My Music plugin within mediaportal</p><p>eg. 4 -> {g},{h},{i} ; 5 -> {j},{k},{l} etc...</p><p></p><p><strong>MVIDS:ALBUM SUPPORT / ALBUM LINK TO SUPPORT</strong></p><p>I'm not sure how the music video plugin could pick up if a certain group of music videos belong to an album. Maybe using the artist + title information from parsing, can the plugin lookup the album name using cddb.com or perhaps it could scan the mp3 music MP database for the same artist - title and then use that to look up the album name.</p><p>Then when you are playing video (non fullscreen), the plugin can either</p><p>- offer to play/add to playlist all other music videos from that album that are available</p><p>- or offer to end playback of video then load up the album as a playlist in default music player (if exists) so you can listen to the audio album</p><p>The plugin can also grab the album image file from e:\music\artist\album\folder.jpg</p><p>or it can grab an image from within the associated mp3 file</p><p></p><p><strong>FAN ART SUPPORT</strong></p><p>Every plugin for media seems to be adding fan art support these days</p><p>The fan art could be;</p><p>(1) artist picture from scarping website</p><p>(2) artist - title.jpg (if exists) in same folder of video</p><p>(3) option to manually associate an image with each video</p><p>(4) use ffmpeg to rip an image at predetermined time frame</p><p>(5) Random picture from a subfolder in e:\music videos\fanart\</p><p>I think the 1st idea should have a condition tag option, eg. only if >640 x >480 pic size</p><p>I think the 4th idea might not be suitable because you also want to display a thumb picture of the video, so possibly no point in having the image displayed twice, and also unlikely to be good enough quality for fanart</p><p></p><p><strong>AUTO PLAYLIST GENERATOR</strong></p><p>This would be good, the existing mvids plugin has this built in. It gives weight to star rating / how many times its been played / how recently it was added / random factor / etc..</p><p>Another idea is auto play top 20 songs random order, or auto play all tracks with star rating >3 etc..</p><p>It can also have other smart functions</p><p>eg. group together tracks with the same genre/artist etc...</p><p></p><p><strong>NAVIGATION KEYS</strong></p><p>Disagree with above, pressing left/right arrow should skip forward/backwards within the current video as per the default mediaportal behaviour, this should not be used to change tracks. Change tracks should use F7/F8 which is default behaviour of other plugins.</p><p></p><p><strong>TAG MANAGEMENT</strong></p><p>The original author planned to implent the following</p><p>"From the research I've done over the past few days, the first tag is generally the Genre. I'm also implementing a tag manager so that you can combine tags like, for example, "hip-hop", "hip hop", and "rap" into one tag. This will make things much cleaner, I believe, and allow you to have much more control over subdividing your Artists by tag. I think it removes a lot of confusion and gives a cleaner look as I never actually used Style or Tone view anyway. It's actually a lot more powerful this way in my opinion. I'm also writing it so that you can automatically add tags based on folder structure and completely ignore the last.fm tags. This will allow a pseudo "Genre" view or "Style" view if that's all you wanted, for example."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 471355, member: 76888"] Here are some random ideas, I'll add more later. [B]MUSIC FILE STRUCTURE[/B] My music videos are stored E:\MUSIC VIDEOS\Artist - Title.avi I don't use seperate folders for different artists, every video is in the one directory. Some other users have multiple directories, because it's slow to browse with >100 files within 1x directory. I don't think that many users use a proper directory structure for music videos eg. E:\MUSIC VIDEOS\ARTIST\Artist - Title.avi (or) E:\MUSIC VIDEOS\ARTIST\ALBUM\Artist - Title.avi Often torrents now contain 1-2x music videos with the album download, so some users may have some video files within their music directory. If the music video is within the music directory then you have the option of grabing thumbnails from folder.jpg for the album [B]SUPPORT FOR MULTI MUSIC VIDEOS WITHIN 1X FILE[/B] Some music videos are actually DVD rips eg. The.Black.Eyed.Peas-Elephunk.DVDrip.CD1.avi Some users might like an option to select a file as having more than 1 video within it Then you could mark the time zones of each video within the file The database would then store this .avi file as multi video entries and when playing would jump to the appropriate time and stop at the appropriate time Kind of like virtually splitting the file into multiple avi's [B]SCRAPING ARISTS PICTURES[/B] The existing mvids code i think uses last.fm and gets very low quality artist pictures The audioscrober plugin does a very good job of getting artist pictures It stores them in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\Artistsname.jpg (Thumbnail) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\ArtistsnameL.jpg (Larger picture) Perhaps you could share/borrow the code from that [B]GRABING MUSIC VIDEO THUMBNAIL IMAGE[/B] Grabbing image @ XX secounds into the video is great I agree with above suggestion by darro. When playing a music video, if the user press CTRL+Printscreen then the current video frame will be used to replace the current video thumbnail image [B]PARSING TEST[/B] There should be a parsing test option eg. Filename | Artist | Title Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze.avi | Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze [I]JimiHendrix[/I] - Wind Cries Mary.avi | [I]JimiHendrix[/I] | Wind cries Marry You should be apply to right click on the 2nd file and correct the filename within the parsing test [B]MEDIAINFO.DLL[/B] This could be used to display stream information just like in my tvseries It has logos for 4:3 16:9 HDTV AC3 DD5.1 etc... [B]RATE VIDEO DURING FULLSCREEN PLAYBACK[/B] Pressing the numbers 1 -> 5 will give the video a star rating [B]SMS STYLE SHORTCUTS[/B] When browsing music share or playlist pressing numeric key should jump to the corresponding letter This function is already incorporated within default My Music plugin within mediaportal eg. 4 -> {g},{h},{i} ; 5 -> {j},{k},{l} etc... [B]MVIDS:ALBUM SUPPORT / ALBUM LINK TO SUPPORT[/B] I'm not sure how the music video plugin could pick up if a certain group of music videos belong to an album. Maybe using the artist + title information from parsing, can the plugin lookup the album name using cddb.com or perhaps it could scan the mp3 music MP database for the same artist - title and then use that to look up the album name. Then when you are playing video (non fullscreen), the plugin can either - offer to play/add to playlist all other music videos from that album that are available - or offer to end playback of video then load up the album as a playlist in default music player (if exists) so you can listen to the audio album The plugin can also grab the album image file from e:\music\artist\album\folder.jpg or it can grab an image from within the associated mp3 file [B]FAN ART SUPPORT[/B] Every plugin for media seems to be adding fan art support these days The fan art could be; (1) artist picture from scarping website (2) artist - title.jpg (if exists) in same folder of video (3) option to manually associate an image with each video (4) use ffmpeg to rip an image at predetermined time frame (5) Random picture from a subfolder in e:\music videos\fanart\ I think the 1st idea should have a condition tag option, eg. only if >640 x >480 pic size I think the 4th idea might not be suitable because you also want to display a thumb picture of the video, so possibly no point in having the image displayed twice, and also unlikely to be good enough quality for fanart [B]AUTO PLAYLIST GENERATOR[/B] This would be good, the existing mvids plugin has this built in. It gives weight to star rating / how many times its been played / how recently it was added / random factor / etc.. Another idea is auto play top 20 songs random order, or auto play all tracks with star rating >3 etc.. It can also have other smart functions eg. group together tracks with the same genre/artist etc... [B]NAVIGATION KEYS[/B] Disagree with above, pressing left/right arrow should skip forward/backwards within the current video as per the default mediaportal behaviour, this should not be used to change tracks. Change tracks should use F7/F8 which is default behaviour of other plugins. [B]TAG MANAGEMENT[/B] The original author planned to implent the following "From the research I've done over the past few days, the first tag is generally the Genre. I'm also implementing a tag manager so that you can combine tags like, for example, "hip-hop", "hip hop", and "rap" into one tag. This will make things much cleaner, I believe, and allow you to have much more control over subdividing your Artists by tag. I think it removes a lot of confusion and gives a cleaner look as I never actually used Style or Tone view anyway. It's actually a lot more powerful this way in my opinion. I'm also writing it so that you can automatically add tags based on folder structure and completely ignore the last.fm tags. This will allow a pseudo "Genre" view or "Style" view if that's all you wanted, for example." [/QUOTE]
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