feature request

[barrydocks]

would it be possible to browse or display music by other tags that might be available eg by composer
this would solve the current limitation xbmc has with classical & jazz music etc
thanks

[lzoubek]

yes, it would be possible, but I am not sure how to get it into current UI. Any Ideas?

I am thinking about completely rewriting the UI in the way how other audio/video plugins work (for example YouTube)

[barrydocks]

sorry, I am not a coder - just a reasonably competent linux user. I would be more than happy to beta test though?

[lzoubek]

np at all, that question was not code-related, It was more likely about UI layout and finding some place where to put list of results (when querying genres)

Anyway, I'll go the way of new plugin UI almost from scratch.

I'd be happy for tester and someone who can provide feedback. I'll ping you in this issue, once I have something usable.

[barrydocks]

ah, right. I think for it to be really usable then being able to browse the mdp library/database according meta tags which need to be user selectable. The only think I have come across that can do that is Gnome music player client, on ubuntu apt-get install gmpc but you knew that anyway :-)

[lzoubek]

well. gmpc is very often arguments of folks saying my plugin sucks :)

what particular do you mean in gmpc?
Artist browser? - this is what xbmc.mpdc has
Genre browser? - it will have it
Metadata browser - this is quite hard, especially how to present results in XMBC .. since it does not have a tree component :-/

[barrydocks]

OK please excuse my ignorance of mpd, I have only has it installed for about a day or so, it took me a while just to get the server configured to work!

in gmpc if you browse the database, then you can see a list of dirs and a list of files. The file list can be ordered according to the meta tags for the music files. The columns can be user selected.

I would suggest that you try to replicate this layout but rather than use directories and files, use the meta data from the media files. In your plugin the user is only able to display media according to artist, is this from the file structure or from the meta tags?

edit: sorry I just read the last line of your last comment, I see the problem if xbmc does not have a tree structure component

[lzoubek]

Hello mister beta tester,

there is a new (very development) version pushed in git master branch. The 'new' implementation as I announced almost year ago :-)

[ghost]

Hi there,

is this project still alive? I am also very interested in an mpd client for xbmc that can browse my music collection by composer. I am willing to beta test and maybe even do some programming (I have done some python prorgramming before but have absolutely no idea about xbmc plugins).

[ghost]

Oh and I should say that I tried out the current git version and it works fine.

[lzoubek]

Hi,

yes, as soon as I am alive, project lives. Though I am quite busy with maintaining my whole xbmc plugins repo. I'd be happy for any patch or contribution. Currently the git version is the way I'd like to go, I'd need to impelement lots of stuff to be +- feature-compatible as version wich is in public XBMC repo. I didn't get any feedback on new git version from people using MPD Client, so . .I am actually thinking of not replacing the old client, but publish it as 2nd alternative, once it becomes ready