2005-09-16, 06:13 AM
For those who loved the simplicity of MusicAlbums Plugin I have posted my updated version called Music Albums II (MAP2). I have tested it against the latest GBPVR release on my home system. It all seems to be working fine. As a summary of the features I have added:
Version 0.5
Configuration
- Delay before displaying song lists
- Multiple sources for music files
Plugin
- Loads albums/MPU3 from multile source directories defined by the configuration
- Does a recursive walk through each of the directories looking for playlists and music files. Any folder that contains music files is considered an album.
- Display of the album list and song lists are delayed to give better initial response and to allow faster navigation of the album list. The delay is set in the configuratin panel.
- Navigation is simplified. Use UP/DN arrow to browse album/song list. Use right arrow to go from Album List to Song List to Now Playing List. Use left arrow to go back. Use select key to add an album or song to the Now Playing List. Channel UP/DN give paging in album/song list. The colored keys on the Hauppauge remote shoudl be the same as MAP. Yellow = Pg DN; Red = Pg UP; Blue = select; PAUSE will pause; PLAYwill resume from Pause; STOP will stop everything and clear the Now Playing List
- Some clean up on file name handling
There are a few items I would still like to do:
- Support for ID3V2.4
- Edit of Now Playing List (Music Queue)
- Undo Last add
- AutoPlay for operation without having the TV turned on
- Maybe a simple playlist editor
- Shuffle Play
All input is welcome.
Paulg
Version 0.5
Configuration
- Delay before displaying song lists
- Multiple sources for music files
Plugin
- Loads albums/MPU3 from multile source directories defined by the configuration
- Does a recursive walk through each of the directories looking for playlists and music files. Any folder that contains music files is considered an album.
- Display of the album list and song lists are delayed to give better initial response and to allow faster navigation of the album list. The delay is set in the configuratin panel.
- Navigation is simplified. Use UP/DN arrow to browse album/song list. Use right arrow to go from Album List to Song List to Now Playing List. Use left arrow to go back. Use select key to add an album or song to the Now Playing List. Channel UP/DN give paging in album/song list. The colored keys on the Hauppauge remote shoudl be the same as MAP. Yellow = Pg DN; Red = Pg UP; Blue = select; PAUSE will pause; PLAYwill resume from Pause; STOP will stop everything and clear the Now Playing List
- Some clean up on file name handling
There are a few items I would still like to do:
- Support for ID3V2.4
- Edit of Now Playing List (Music Queue)
- Undo Last add
- AutoPlay for operation without having the TV turned on
- Maybe a simple playlist editor
- Shuffle Play
All input is welcome.
Paulg