On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:09 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:
Brad DerManouelian wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Matt Hannan wrote:
Mike wrote:
Chris Ribe wrote:
Prefering MythMusic to iTunes takes a rare kind of insanity,
perhaps.
Other than that, why?
You seriously don't know why he'd want MythMusic instead of
iTunes? Have you ever used brand name iTunes on linux? (HA HA)
Have you ever used Linux? Have you ever used MythTV? Do you
understand the conceptual 'point' of what all this stuff is and
does?
-Mike
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OH MY GOD!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
And I thought about this for a bit. My biggest pet peeve with
iTunes:
playlists.
Who thinks that is a good idea? Not me!
If I come home from the record shoppe (Yes, I actually BUY
physical pieces of plastic encoded in various ways with music)
with 5 new CD's and a couple of LP's (Audacity rules!), after I
get done ripping them and setting up the ID3 tags, the last
thing I want to do is have to manually add them to a freaking
playlist! They should just be there. I set MythMusic to look at
a directory and it plays anything in that directory (Yes, I set
my only "playlist" in MythMusic to "All my music"). Having to
add the files to the iTunes library is the biggest waste of my
time I have ever encountered. If I want to listen to music, it
just is there.
Mike, rock on. At least someone understands!
Matt
You do know that you can use the Browse bar, right? Command-B
(Ctrl-B on Windows). I have mine on by default so I forget that
some people don't know it's there. Click your artist, double-
click your album and it starts playing. How much easier do you
need it to be? The only time I use playlists is when I'm burning
a compilation CD.
"Adding files to the Library is the biggest waste of time?"
Really? Dragging and dropping a folder of music onto the iTunes
window is that time-consuming? Or maybe the time it takes to
select File>Add Folder to Library, choose the folder and click OK
if you don't like drag and drop. Or are you talking about how
hard it is to add a CD you've just bought to the Library? You
know.. popping it in, waiting for it to finish, then taking the
CD out again.
Please tell me how much easier it is to do these things in
MythMusic so I can switch.
Thanks,
Brad
Brad,
Please. You are killing me.
No keyboard or mouse on Mini. No CTRL-B. No drag anything. I have a
remote control for the box, that is it.
And so far I am only proving that it is [i]impossible[/i] to Myth
[u]in Linux[/u] on a Mac! Which was totally not what I set out to do.
I am not in a single machine environment. My main workstation is
Suse 10.0. My server is FC2 (hey, it still runs like a champ! why
screw with it?). The picture frame on my wall is XP and my TV/
stereo machine is the Mac Mini, which was OS X Tiger, but is now
FC4. I do not store my MP3's all willy-nilly "because iTunes will
do the sorting". I store them based on /<artist>/<year>_<album>/
<track> - <artist> - <album> - <title>.mp3. This has evolved over
years of ripping my music collection. I am closing in on 9000 mp3
files, organized in a way that I like and that has proven to work,
on the server. Do you know what a pain in the arse it is to
reorganize this because I mistakenly fire up iTunes and have not
reset that "Let iTunes F with your collection because we know
better than you" check box? Same story in WMP, which runs on a
laptop I have here.
iTunes works for you. Good. Fine. Go enjoy it.
iTunes does not work for me. Good. Fine. I will not use it if I do
not have to.
Getting MythMusic to work is not the goal here. Getting MythTV, as
a whole, to work within Linux on PowerPC hardware is.
Thank you.
Matt
I'm not questioning your objective. Of course I hope you get
everything working the way you need it to on whatever OS you'd like.
Whatever your findings will make MythTV better for more people. In
fact, once you figure it all out, I plan on getting a new machine to
replace my son's mini and using it as my front end so I can get this
noisy monster tower out of my living room. I only questioned your
comment that iTunes doesn't have some features that MythMusic has
which is why you prefer it. I thought I was missing something.
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