My Music 3 Beta (DB Version)

[reven]

Under2 I had an artist folder jpg as well as one for each album. In 3 it seems to default the artist icon to the first album icon.

yeah this is just the dbloader, ill change it to look for a folder.jpg before defaulting to the first found album image.

I have around 500 albums with a lot of compilations - which means everytrack shows as an album. Albums mode does not really help, tough I know!

yeah its a pain in the arse, do your songs have the Artist Album tag (or whatever that tag is called, mentioned a few posts ago). it allows the artist to be set to various and have a second tag for the actual artist name, i may look into finding a tag reader that will support this, to make things easier.

Excuse my ignorance but I can see how you would assign keyboard keys but how do you map the remote?

if you open the mymusic.xml filein the keymappings directory, you'll notice every action has an associated key command eg

Code:

<command name="Main Menu" key="F11"/>
  <command name="Page Down" key="NEXT"/>
  <command name="Page Up" key="PRIOR"/>

so main menu is reached by hitting the F11 key ("go"), and page down = Channel down(or "Page down").

theres a file in that directory called "showkey.exe", run that and that will tell you what the remote keys are, so if you pushed say the "green" button it will display "^G" to tell you that is the key for the green button.
^ = ctrl

[LilY0da]

yeah its a pain in the arse, do your songs have the Artist Album tag (or whatever that tag is called, mentioned a few posts ago). it allows the artist to be set to various and have a second tag for the actual artist name

Other way around.
The "artist" tag is the actual artist for the track, and "album artist" is an additional one that you can set to "Various".
This is for compatibility with tag readers that can't read the "album artist" tag. They can still read what the actual artist for the song is.

[reven]

well you knew what i meant

[saintalan]

if you open the mymusic.xml filein the keymappings directory, you'll notice every action has an associated key command eg

Code:

<command name="Main Menu" key="F11"/>
  <command name="Page Down" key="NEXT"/>
  <command name="Page Up" key="PRIOR"/>

so main menu is reached by hitting the F11 key ("go"), and page down = Channel down(or "Page down").

theres a file in that directory called "showkey.exe", run that and that will tell you what the remote keys are, so if you pushed say the "green" button it will display "^G" to tell you that is the key for the green button.
^ = ctrl

OK so I am going mad, fair enough! BUT does the above work with the MVP? or just Hauppauge cards in PC's?

Alan

[reven]

errrrrrrrrr i have no idea

i guess it should work with the mvp, but i cant test it (may have to ask sub on that one)

(the showkey.exe app wont work of though)

[saintalan]

errrrrrrrrr i have no idea

i guess it should work with the mvp, but i cant test it (may have to ask sub on that one)

(the showkey.exe app wont work of though)

Thanks forthe quick reply. I remember you once saying that you had 'mapped' certain keys for MyMusic with the r/c and that you could change them around etc but you only had a limit eg 12.

Can you remember?

Thanks, Alan

[reven]

Thanks forthe quick reply. I remember you once saying that you had 'mapped' certain keys for MyMusic with the r/c and that you could change them around etc but you only had a limit eg 12.

Can you remember?

Thanks, Alan

no sorry, doesnt ring a bell. ive got a terrible memory

i may have meant a limit of 12 because the remaining 33 buttons are in use else where (on the 45 button remote) or something.

[saintalan]

Thanks Reven. I just managed to map the Yellow & Blue keys to Page up/down as they were in v2. So its a bit of trial and error really, but thats no problem.

I assume that the items in the mymusic.xml are the only ones you use and that they are NOT used OR OVERRIDE the GBPVR seetings? Is that right?

Where are they mapped?

Cheers, Alan

[saintalan]

...yeah its a pain in the arse, do your songs have the Artist Album tag (or whatever that tag is called, mentioned a few posts ago). it allows the artist to be set to various and have a second tag for the actual artist name, i may look into finding a tag reader that will support this, to make things easier....

Reven Hi, below is an extract from a compilation from my iTunes.XML file, I have highlighted the relevent bits. If Compilation is set to true, then it groups the Album under Artist/Compilation. This means on mmv2 that it was easy to scroll, the neat thing with this is that on the actual ipod there is an option to show/hide - meaning you can either see ALL artists or just ALL non-compilation artists. That would be a cool feature for MM3.

<key>File Folder Count</key><integer>4</integer>
<key>Library Folder Count</key><integer>1</integer>
</dict>
<key>1449</key>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>1449</integer>
<key>Name</key><string>Through Your Hands</string>
<key>Artist</key><string>Don Henley</string>
<key>Album</key><string>Michael (OST)</string>
<key>Genre</key><string>Pop</string>
<key>Kind</key><string>MPEG audio file</string>
<key>Size</key><integer>6049882</integer>
<key>Total Time</key><integer>258560</integer>
<key>Track Number</key><integer>1</integer>
<key>Year</key><integer>1996</integer>
<key>Date Modified</key><date>2005-08-24T12:46:12Z</date>
<key>Date Added</key><date>2005-08-23T14:25:28Z</date>
<key>Bit Rate</key><integer>186</integer>
<key>Sample Rate</key><integer>44100</integer>
<key>Comments</key><string>Track 1</string>
<key>Compilation</key><true/>
<key>Artwork Count</key><integer>1</integer>
<key>Season</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Persistent ID</key><string>0061088E4AADEE16</string>
<key>Track Type</key><string>File</string>
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Alan/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iTunes/Compilations/Michael%20(OST)/01%20Through%20Your%20Hands.mp3</string>

[gEd]

I just completed a scan of my (remote) music folders. 130GB 1851 albums. DBloader finished with

Unspecified error
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.ProcessResults(Int32 hr)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.InitializeProvider()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
at MyMusicDBLoader.Class1.UpdateAlbumDurations() in c:\xmltv\mymusicdbloader\
class1.cs:line 294
Scan complete

database is 138MB

[edit - sooooory - getting Gb and MB mixed up]

Upon starting gbpvr.exe, mem usage goes up to 320MB and then drops back to 55MB. However, the commit charge figure has risen from 250MB to 785MB which is too high as I only have 512MB in the box.

[edit] if I rename/remove MyMusic.db, the commit chareg figure returns to 292MB

I know my collection is rather large (oh er misses) but should this plugin be able to cope?

thanks

John