My Music 3 Beta

[reven]

hmmm for some reason the rating was returned as "45", and it should have been return as "4.5", ill add some safety checks to ensure this doesnt happen (at the moment i just use "Rating_"+ratingReturned).

yeah there are a couple of things i need to think about, sorting everything from the db does have advantages, like i would prefer for my metallica folder to appear in this order
- Kill 'Em All
- Ride the Lightning
- Master of Puppets
- ...And Justice For All
etc

and not alphabetically, but on the other hand i dont want to have to update the db every time i add new music, and plus it would be a little slower ..... (or would it......????? hmmm).

and theres no easy way to do it both ways.


errr balls. maybe a vote is needed, would the announace of having to update the db every time you add new music outweight the benefits of using a db to do all the sorting? where sorting by name, year, genre would work a lot better...... bugger bugger bugger, ill let the users decide.

[nkh]

yeah there are a couple of things i need to think about, sorting everything from the db does have advantages, like i would prefer for my metallica folder to appear in this order
- Kill 'Em All
- Ride the Lightning
- Master of Puppets
- ...And Justice For All
etc

and not alphabetically, but on the other hand i dont want to have to update the db every time i add new music, and plus it would be a little slower ..... (or would it......????? hmmm).

and theres no easy way to do it both ways.


errr balls. maybe a vote is needed, would the announace of having to update the db every time you add new music outweight the benefits of using a db to do all the sorting? where sorting by name, year, genre would work a lot better...... bugger bugger bugger, ill let the users decide.

Hehe, I think it would be nice to have the albums sorted by release date, do you know how long time it'll take to update the db when you add an album?

[reven]

it should take that long, it would just check each file for the db entry and the last modified date (incase you updated the tag info), and if you rip a cd inside the plugin itself it would be automatic.

its just the fact you would have to manually click an "Update Database" button. i would probably guess it would take under a minute in like 99% of the time.

[tkgafs]

I would vote for a manual update of database

as this would give me much better startup times I presume, which is vital if you are using an mvp like me

or at least provide an option to only build database if user wants it, as I would imagine most peoples music collections dont change all that regularily

tkgafs

[dottore]

will that mean, that tracks are displayed according to their id3-tags? i mean, is this independent from the folder, the files are stored?

would be cool, if the musicdatabase could be displayed filtering by genre, artist, album,.....no matter which folder the files are in. like meedio does.

i'm sorry, if this was mentioned/answered before...

[Lucas_24]

I vote for updating the DB manually as well, adds a lopt of functionality.

[reven]

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will that mean, that tracks are displayed according to their id3-tags? i mean, is this independent from the folder, the files are stored?

would be cool, if the musicdatabase could be displayed filtering by genre, artist, album,.....no matter which folder the files are in. like meedio does.

i'm sorry, if this was mentioned/answered before...

yeah it would be sorted based on the tags (id3, wma tags, ape tags, im not sure if they call them all the same thing). it would have to still used define music directories to search for files, otherwise if it searched your entire system it would take forever.

im going to start a poll and see what people think. hopefully people vote on this one.

[dottore]

naturally you'll have to say, which directory to search for. this was only concerning displaying the files.

this would really be cool! on to the vote....

[reven]

yeah ill probably keep the virtual root list, just remove the "DIR","DVD" etc and just search for music files in those directory.

the only problem is you wont be able to use music off cds/dvds anymore (well maybe, but definitely not .cda files)

[dottore]

ups..... looks like we need a new plugin: cd-player ;-)