2020-06-16, 16:57
My experience is that music videos are primarily in the pop genres, and typically the title or A side of what's really a single (but often referred to as an EP and might have a couple other tracks included). It's common to have a separate release (part of an MB release group) that contains both CD and DVD/BD with unique cover art.
The default library nodes provide both "artist" (with "album" sub-node) and "album" nodes. There's also studio and director nodes, kind of doubt anyone uses those.
The "mixed" smart playlist provides both songs and music videos (but doesn't have any grouping options).
I'm interested in trying to have consistent look and feel. In the music library you have mostly 1:1 aspect art. When you mix in music videos with a different aspect thumb you can
a. stretch aspect which results in distorted art
b. keep aspect which results in a smaller art
c. define separate image controls with different aspect based on DBtype which results in layout difficulties
This also affects widget panels which typically use a thumb.
Some can be overcome with skin settings options, but the more complex skins already have a ton of settings.
You might want to have different look in the music window compared to videos which would argue for a different art type used in each. (Music could show the cover art while videos the poster art.) You still need to be careful as music videos always use the movie info dialog window regardless of which library window it is called from.
scott s.
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The default library nodes provide both "artist" (with "album" sub-node) and "album" nodes. There's also studio and director nodes, kind of doubt anyone uses those.
The "mixed" smart playlist provides both songs and music videos (but doesn't have any grouping options).
I'm interested in trying to have consistent look and feel. In the music library you have mostly 1:1 aspect art. When you mix in music videos with a different aspect thumb you can
a. stretch aspect which results in distorted art
b. keep aspect which results in a smaller art
c. define separate image controls with different aspect based on DBtype which results in layout difficulties
This also affects widget panels which typically use a thumb.
Some can be overcome with skin settings options, but the more complex skins already have a ton of settings.
You might want to have different look in the music window compared to videos which would argue for a different art type used in each. (Music could show the cover art while videos the poster art.) You still need to be careful as music videos always use the movie info dialog window regardless of which library window it is called from.
scott s.
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