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I'd be willing to give it a shot. I'm a decent programmer but have zero XBMC experience (and C is a while ago, mainly python nowadays).
Is there a getting started guide to start with programming and building XMBC?
Can someone point me to the source files where library stuff happens?
Cheers,
Wouter
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I just wanted to bump this thread. I still think this is a wierd ommission from XBMC that you cannot browse music by composer. Other media players have it and if you have any classical mussic in your collection it is really vital to find what you want.
Are there any devs out there up for putting this into the next release? It would be much appreciated by all the XMBC users out there who like a bit of classical music now and then!
Many thanks
Michael
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With the caveat that I haven't yet done any coding for XBMC, I'd be willing to give this a shot. Seems to me that the best way to proceed would be to provide support for arbitrary tags rather than just the Composer tag. Otherwise we'll have to go through this whole process again when somebody wants to add the Soloists, Opus, Instrument, Performer, Producer, Sound Engineer, Venue, Movement, etc. tags.
So I guess we'd need to add a table (let's call it MetaTag) with the primary key of the song along with tagName and tagValue strings. If we wanted to have some sort of validation on names/values that could all be stuffed in an XML file with different permissible values for each file type. I'm guessing this would be necessary for some file types (like MIDI) more than others (FLAC/MP3). I suppose we could create views to speed up queries against particular tagName(s). But I'm not a DBA and I haven't ever worked with SQLite, so maybe that's not the best idea.
Does that sound feasible? Or is the concept so flawed that I shouldn't even bother starting?
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Is there any chance to solve this issue with Gotham release?
I would highly appreciate more support of the ID3 Tags in the music library in further releases like chryses wrote 2 posts above.
Also that more settings were considered to control the look of the Music section.
For example:
To have a setting where I can determine the sort of the artists by id3 Tag: 'artist' or 'artist sort field'
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I do agree.
We have, into the MyMusic database an artist file with a musicbrainz artist id.
And, in musicbarianz file a sortartist field.
Could it be possible to create this one into xbmc and scrap the musicbrainz info, and then, have the possibility to sort ?
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Why not go one step further and add support for custom tags that you can add in software like Foobar2000? I use this feature quite heavily when tagging electronic radioshows / podcasts with broadcast dates and episode numbers.
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I was looking for alternatives to MediaMonkey and MusicBee, both of which I dislike, and found Kodi. I installed it and noticed that there is no Composer view, so I searched and found this ancient post.
I am a retired software engineer and a classical music lover, and so, before committing to anything, I would like to find out how much work this is likely to be. I have written code in over 25 languages during a 45 year career in the software business, but Murphy's Law says that Kodi is probably not written in any of them.
Where do I get started?
Chris