Music Player Plug-in

[kg4dkf]

I haven't played with all the available plug-ins, but I looked at all of them, and I tried our ML2, and it doesn't seem like any music plug-ins follow my way of thinking. I want a directory based music library plug-in that will allow me to randomize any directory and which will include all subdirectories in that random playlist. The reason for this is simple, I have my music in D:\music\, there I have directories for genres, then in each genre I have a directory for the artist, in there a directory for the album, and finally the music. This is a great way to track my library, find things easily, and get to exactly the type of music that I want to play. Sometimes I want to here They Might Be Giants, and so I would go into the TMBG directory and play a random list from all the album directories. Other times I want to hear random songs off of Severe Tire Damage, so I go to just that one album, or I might want to hear all my rock music, so I would expand out to the rock directory and hear it all...

So does anyone have a plugin that will work this way? If not, anyone planning on one and need a beta tester? I can't program (beyond web languages), but I can try stuff out...

[psycik]

Is there any reason why you couldn't get ML2 to work the way you describe above? I'm assuming your music is tagged.

[kg4dkf]

ML2 would give me directory lists. It gave me a list of every artist on my machine at once, which is hundreds of artists, and then under that it gave me individual songs, no album level. Perhaps I set it up wrong, but when I went back to read about it, it says in the wiki that it is supposed to function directory-less...

[psycik]

yeah, but if you're look for x album from y artist then it's designed to work like that - select the artist, then right then scroll down the albums, then right again for the titles.

Also by default you can switch to album view (blue button or ctrl-b) and then to genre.

Failing that doesn't something like Music Albums work as you want?

[Jeff]

I haven't played with all the available plug-ins, but I looked at all of them, and I tried our ML2, and it doesn't seem like any music plug-ins follow my way of thinking. I want a directory based music library plug-in that will allow me to randomize any directory and which will include all subdirectories in that random playlist. The reason for this is simple, I have my music in D:\music\, there I have directories for genres, then in each genre I have a directory for the artist, in there a directory for the album, and finally the music. This is a great way to track my library, find things easily, and get to exactly the type of music that I want to play. Sometimes I want to here They Might Be Giants, and so I would go into the TMBG directory and play a random list from all the album directories. Other times I want to hear random songs off of Severe Tire Damage, so I go to just that one album, or I might want to hear all my rock music, so I would expand out to the rock directory and hear it all...

So does anyone have a plugin that will work this way? If not, anyone planning on one and need a beta tester? I can't program (beyond web languages), but I can try stuff out...

This is more or less what the Music Player plug-in does. See http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/MusicPlayer

Jeff

[mmatheny]

Yes -I use the Music Player plugin - I tried ML2 - didn't like the interface, like you said, it does not think like I do!

[kg4dkf]

The Music Player did the trick. From the wiki description of it, I didn't think that it would support multiple directory levels like I have my system set up, but now that I've tried it it does exactly what I wanted it to do. If anyone is looking for a music player for an organized collection with multiple levels of directories, this is the one... Thanks for the help!

[mmatheny]

See this thread about a missing .mdb file you might encounter.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=23971