My Music 3 Beta

[reven]

heres the beta of my music 3,
new stuff
- genre sorting (under "sort by")
- top 100 (under "sort by")
- album info from amazon.com (at the moment use the "record" button or ctrl-k, can be changed under keymappings/mymusic.xml)
- to view the album info use the "menu" button (can also be changed in keymappings)
- burning cds is now done by expressburn (set the location of burn.exe under the "other" tab in the settings).
- ripping is done by dbpoweramp (still) i suggest using dbpoweramp 10 (11 you have to pay for)
- when the cd is ripping it now says a percentage, and hides the ripping window created by dbpoweramp
- you can burn an album under the "album" view.


err lots of other crap, mostly just bug fixes, improvements etc other the last one. the database will be updated when you run it (the old database tables arent used at all, ill write some code to delete those tables in the final vesrion if they are found).

theres probably something in this that i forgot and wont allow you to run it, but give it a go and let me know if you can actually run it.

oh and the music tracks are sorted by their actually filenames and not by the display names, so if your tracks are stored like [blah blah blah][tracknum] - [song], they might appear out of order (its much quicker sorting by filename and only loading the song info when needed.).

enjoy.

[smeghead]

Thanks reven, i'll give it a go later tonight when i'm not recording anything

[nightwalker]

Since my gbpvr is working pretty well these days i thought i'd give the my music a go and play with it some. I downloaded the zip and keep getting an invalid zip message no matter which way i tried to unzip. Is it me or is it in fact an invalid zip?

[cameluk]

Downloaded and installed ok, seems to be working fine so far

[nkh]

Hey, somhow the download doesn't work in Internet Explore, it worked fine in Firefox though.

Anyways, the setup part looks like it's having some elements of MyPictures left in it?

The animation looks nice, but is super slow on my system, could there be an option to turn it off?

The "Sort by: Top 100" doesn't fit the button.

I think the Top 100 and Genre functions would be better on their own button (or maybe just virtual folders in the main dir). It's a bit confusing to jump though different sortings of a folder and then end up on another screen

How does the Top 100 function work? Does it sort the songs after play-count? If so, could you show the play-count on the screen?

The Details view doesn't have the id3 tag info it used to have. I don't know if the "View: Preview" screen is a left over from MyPictures, but I don't see why it's there in MyMusic (except for viewing the album art).

When you use the list view and highlight the currently playing song it looks like the highlight-bar disapeares, I think the white border stayed there in the last version (so if you highlighted the currently playing song you'd see a red bar with a white border).

In the pages X/Y text the Y part is covered by the page down button (btw, could thoes buttons be optional?).

Oh, and I can't get the album info to work, it says it can't find any info in the database (pressing record on the remote). I tried it on 22 Pistepirkko - Rally Of Love, Air - Talkie Walkie, Metallica - Load and Oasis - Definitely Maybe.

[reven]

Anyways, the setup part looks like it's having some elements of MyPictures left in it?

yeah this i did this at the last minute.

The "Sort by: Top 100" doesn't fit the button.

i wasnt using the blue skin when testing, i whipped up that skin in like 10 minutes, so theres bound to be some small bugs, if someone wants to fix them up then send them to me that would be swell (ah clark kent).

I think the Top 100 and Genre functions would be better on their own button (or maybe just virtual folders in the main dir). It's a bit confusing to jump though different sortings of a folder and then end up on another screen

i wanted to keep the number of buttons down to 6 at max (otherwise the music panel wouldnt have enough room) and besides i think it makes sense.

How does the Top 100 function work? Does it sort the songs after play-count? If so, could you show the play-count on the screen?

every time a file is played the times played is incremented in the database, ill think about adding this, but not sure where?

The Details view doesn't have the id3 tag info it used to have. I don't know if the "View: Preview" screen is a left over from MyPictures, but I don't see why it's there in MyMusic (except for viewing the album art).

yeah i havent done these yet, ill probably show the album information fetched from amazon.com

When you use the list view and highlight the currently playing song it looks like the highlight-bar disapeares, I think the white border stayed there in the last version (so if you highlighted the currently playing song you'd see a red bar with a white border).

yeah i have to add one more composiet image called "Selected-[View]-NowPlaying" (or along those lines).

In the pages X/Y text the Y part is covered by the page down button (btw, could thoes buttons be optional?).

once again a skin thing i missed, ill try and make them optional (but it might be tricky).

Oh, and I can't get the album info to work, it says it can't find any info in the database (pressing record on the remote). I tried it on 22 Pistepirkko - Rally Of Love, Air - Talkie Walkie, Metallica - Load and Oasis - Definitely Maybe.

you have to look up the info from amazon.com and then once you have done that you can few the album information.

[groover km]

I have tried the 3.0 beta and kudos to you, it all seems to be functioning 'as advertised'; I particularly like the amazon.com lookup feature.

The only issues - if you can even call them that - are some skinning issues which are probably a combination of (a) hey, it's a beta and (b) I use an old skin that is no longer supported (one of yours I believe Reven - Media Experience? I seem to remember you posting a while ago you no longer support it).

Anyway, I can have a bash at fixing the skin myself to match my current setup (although in the past it has taken me an entire afternoon to change a button colour) and key mappings, etc. Minor stuff.

Another cool plugin. Good stuff!

[reven]

(b) I use an old skin that is no longer supported (one of yours I believe Reven - Media Experience? I seem to remember you posting a while ago you no longer support it).

yeah i ported this from the xbmc one, to much work maintaining it thou.

[nkh]

i wasnt using the blue skin when testing, i whipped up that skin in like 10 minutes, so theres bound to be some small bugs, if someone wants to fix them up then send them to me that would be swell (ah clark kent).

Ahh, okay, I didn't really look at what the zip contained so I just assumed it would work in the blue skin

i wanted to keep the number of buttons down to 6 at max (otherwise the music panel wouldnt have enough room) and besides i think it makes sense.

Okay, it just confused me

every time a file is played the times played is incremented in the database, ill think about adding this, but not sure where?

How about right after the track name? Like:

##. Band - Song (play count) . . . . . . . . . . (mms)

you have to look up the info from amazon.com and then once you have done that you can few the album information.

How do I look up the info? I thought that happened when I pressed the Record button on the remote?

[reven]

How about right after the track name? Like:

##. Band - Song (play count) . . . . . . . . . . (mms)

i might put this in details/preview view, there wont be enough room to put it after the song name in list view, since some songnames/band names can be really long.

How do I look up the info? I thought that happened when I pressed the Record button on the remote?

yeah pushing record should bring up a dialog box saying something like "Looking up album information". and then you should see around 10 different results found (it only pasers the first page of the amazon resutls, im going to change this), and then you select which album you want (im pretty sure another dialog box is shown saying "downloading album information"), and then you should have new cover art for that folder, and then you can push the "menu"/home key. i was meant to change this to be the same button but forgotm .