Having my library organized with iTunes (iPod sync), I use the following tag structure:<br><ul><li>Title - movement name and number (ex - "I. Allegro")<br></li><li>Artist - performer (orchestra for orchestral works, soloist for solo works)
<br></li><li>Composer - composer</li><li>Album - Work</li><li>Grouping - Album Name</li><li>Track number - movement number</li><li>BPM - opus number</li><li>Comments - mainly includes conductor, soloist (for orchestral works such as concerti) or accompanist (for x+piano works)
</li></ul>I find using that structure just makes everything work properly for both sorting in iTunes and on my iPod. If Mythmusic could utilize such a structure it would not be short of amazing. Some heirarchies that could work:
<br><ul><li>Composer - Album - Title (sorted by track number)</li><li>Artist - Composer - Album - Title</li><li>Composer - Album (sorted by BPM) - Title</li></ul>Just a suggestion, but I think it would work well. Maybe an option somewhere to figure between popular and classical view?
<br><br>Justin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wendy Seltzer</b> <<a href="mailto:wseltzer@gmail.com">wseltzer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd be happy to help test, as many of these features would be useful to
me. (Incidentally, I too have a mainly classical collection, but
I've coopted the tags so Artist=Composer, Album=Work, and
Title=Performers, after munging tracks together so each work is a
single file.)<br>
<br>
--Wendy<div><span class="e" id="q_1088e079c66eb74f_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Justin Cherniak</b> <<a href="mailto:compwiz312@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
compwiz312@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Paul, I'm wondering if it would be possible to add an additional view,
for us classical music listeners. Namely, a Composer list.
I personally have my music library managed by iTunes where I used
almost every tag available, however being able to browse by composer
would be absolutely wonderful (the artist tag contains the performer,
which isn't very useful to browse by).
<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Justin<br><br><div><div><span><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Volkaerts</b> <<a href="mailto:paul.volkaerts@lineone.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
paul.volkaerts@lineone.net</a>> wrote:
</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi;</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I have been working
on some GUI improvements in MythMusic -- its coming along ok & hopefully
will finish before my holidays do, so wanted to check firstly that the owner of
this code does not object and secondly that I'm not repeating what someone else
is doing.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">The look and feel
has not changed much; but a</font></span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">s a taster -- here is what I have so far.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">1. I've built
several views into the tree. By default you see the "Active Play Queue" but at
full width (equivelant to show-whole-tree being false) because I don't like the
way that you lose 1/4 of the screen when show-whole-tree is enabled.
Up and down work as before but left and right cycle between </font></span></div>
<div><span>
<font face="Arial" size="2">Active playlist</font></span></div>
<div><span>
<font face="Arial" size="2">Artist list</font></span></div>
<div><span>
<font face="Arial" size="2">Genre list</font></span></div>
<div><span>
<font face="Arial" size="2">Playlist list</font></span></div>
<div><span>
<font face="Arial" size="2">Search facility</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">2. In any of these
screens you can use up/down/select to browse the catalog, browsing into
Artists/Albums etc as you wish</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">3. In any of these
screens hitting PLAY will play that item (e.g. on an artist plays everything by
that artist etc). </font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">4. The search
facility lets you type a few characters and it lists all the artists that
match. To do this, I implemented a new Myth widget called a MythKeyboard,
which shows you a picture of a keyboard and lets you use
up/down/left/right/select to type. For good measure I have also attached
this to MythLineEdit and MythRemoteLineEdit types, so hitting MENU in any text
input field now displays a keyboard.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">5. Some suprtficial
changes - adding icons, and a few minor changes to the theme (removing the
play,ffwd icons to make the artwork bigger), though there is no code changes
there, just theme.</font></span></div></span></div><span>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Paul</font></span></div>
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