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2016-05-19, 19:06
What do others think about having a "music corner" forum for all things about Kodi as music library browser and player?
It would sure make my life easier, rather than music issues and replies being scattered across many forum, threads and posts. I would like to put all the music related support, discussions and development in one place. It could be small to begin with, but as someone else pointed out if all music related things were moved there then it would soon grow.
Music support problems are rarely platform specific, feature request discussion turns into support or design debate, and many users that could have somethimg useful to contribute to a design discussion don't look in development. Then testing feedback, or asking for testers, where does that go?
May be it is a bad idea? I'm just thinking outloud, and want to encourage a music library using Kodi community, I just don't know how to make best use of the current structure.
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Yeah, there is no area specific to Kodi functions. Video issues, Music issues, Scraper issues, etc.
When you look under General Support, it is mostly targeted at OS issues (Windows, Android, IOS, Mac, Other), which doesn't work for a specific area in Kodi.
Possibly a good place would be under the Development section. But not under the "Kodi Application", or "Add-ons", but its own separate section. "Music Corner" sounds good to me.
We could also put Music Video related issues in there as well, since they seem to be linked to Music.
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Good idea, I will take a look at this tomorrow to see if it fits anywhere obvious.
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The only thing that may need clarifying is what should be in there as opposed to the already existing Music Add-ons sub-forum in the Add-ons section (at least for me). I'm presuming the new bit is for music playing in vanilla Kodi itself, but I can see this causing user confusion (and the same probably occurring for the video equivalents as well).
Also which section should music videos end up in, music or video (or music or video add-ons)?
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2016-05-20, 12:00
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-20, 12:00 by zag.)
Yes all vanilla Kodi music related threads in the new section.
Anything add-on related or feature requests, or development should stay in the old places.
Music videos are videos at the end of the day so I think that section is best.
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Yes, the music addon stuff, mostly relating to music streaming continues in the Add-ons>Music Addons subforum as before.
It is Kodi music library stuff: music file tagging, NFO, genre, albums, artist, metadata and artwork, browsing and management etc., that was sprinkled across the General Support platform sub-forums even though they are not platform specific (although many end up in the independant forum) that could now be in "Music Support". Maybe calling it "Music Library Support" would help?
I also see testing discussion, both feedback form nightlies etc. and request for users to test stuff going here. In fact it would help to insist on that rather than it leaching into Feature Requests, getting split into bits with some in the Development forum or worse still getting hidden in member-only area.
Agree with Zag that music videos are videos so Video support section.
Going to make a personal effort to direct new implemented music featue discussion to the Music Support section too. Once imlemented, or if part of a request is implemented, it is best if discussion move away from the feature request section. Same too with development, there we discuss what and how we do something, but once done it is more a support issue, and will get better visibility there.
But I suspect that some feature request and dev discussion will happen in Music Support anyway because it often starts from a support issue or bug discussion. Let's see how it goes.
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2016-05-20, 14:13
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-20, 14:15 by DarrenHill.)
Works for me.
If there's some already existing stuff that needs moving, PM me with links to the thread and we can get that sorted too.
Oh and I took the liberty of stickying your welcome thread in there too.
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Thanks Darren. I really do appreciate the job you mods do keeping the forum flowing and effective
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(This post was last modified: 2016-05-20, 15:59 by zag.)
Excellent, good work all round.
Once PR9812 gets in, lets get a nice testing thread going.
