Author Topic: Smart TV style  (Read 942 times)

Carcayu

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I have been using musicbee for a long time in my Desktop PC, and now I want yo use it conected to my TV.

The thing is Id like to use it in some style that doesnt seem to be the theatre mode.

Want I want is, as soon as I run the program, a square tiles style full screen presentation with all album artists.

If I click in an album artist using a keyboard por gaming pad, then another tiles presentation with all discs of the artist.

And if I click again, the album with the tracklist.

If I want to select another album or artist, then I have to click in a back button.

Is that possible? Thanks in advance!

Zak

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Not possible as described.
Someone might come up with a Theatre Mode view that works as a TV-interface, but as MusicBee is very much a PC-based project it's very unlikely to be implemented as a built-in feature.

It would also require a computer or dedicated home theatre PC to be connected to the TV via HDMI - MusicBee isn't an app.
You might look at something like Kodi as an alternative that already does what you have requested.

https://kodi.tv
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hiccup

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Something like this should be doable.
Two possible restrictions:

    1. When using a gamepad, you'll need to be able to configure buttons that will act as: 
          - Enter
          - Escape
          - a custom key combination (or e.g. a Function key)
               I'm guessing there will be tools that can make this possible.

    2. The next panel after clicking the main panel (Artists) would be the Album Covers view with the tracks displayed in the expanded panel. Not a completely new 'tracks' panel. 

Would this be doable and good enough?
 
Last Edit: September 22, 2023, 11:33:14 AM by hiccup