Whatscheiser Posted March 7 Posted March 7 (edited) General disclaimer... I have no method that serves as a shortcut to make doing all of this a pleasant and quick experience. I'm just stubborn and I want all of my things in one front end so I've started in. Right now I'm using Metallica as sort of my template for how I will import the rest of the library. By template I mean I'm figuring out how I want everything to look, what images/data to pull. Variety in things like art and clear logos, etc. I'm using the combine games functionality to have individual tracks available within the software. Right-Click > Additional Apps > Select track. I have batch files for all of my FLAC files that I've ripped from CD. They point to the location on my NAS where they have been stored and launch the track or album via WACUP. At the same time it also launches Milk Drop 3 in full screen. This is nice inside of BigBox in the living room. It basically turns my TV into a huge visualizer for my audio files. I can close everything that's launched via a hotkey so it makes popping in and out of songs through the BigBox/LaunchBox software pretty seamless. You'll also notice that I have a music category setup to have multiple subs. I eventually want to add concert blu-ray's and music videos under this as well. Something like... Music ---Albums ---Concerts ---Videos Mainly just sharing because I think LaunchBox could be great as a music launcher. I'm aware of MusicBox but... I'm not really looking for LaunchBox to handle everything in app the way MusicBox does. I just want my library there with the ability to delegate what software interacts with it. It would be great if we could get the scrapers available in MusicBox within LaunchBox though. (that would make my life much easier, lol). Doing this as I am now, it will take a while to accomplish but, that's alright. I wouldn't say that spending an evening with a beer and a CD while I read articles and look at artwork associated with my favorite artists is an arduous task. ::EDIT:: Here are some BigBox views. Milk Drop 3 doing its thing. Edited March 7 by Whatscheiser 1 Quote
TrailerVert Posted March 7 Posted March 7 Now that is sexy! I like having it all on one frontend as well. I think I'm just an old bastard that still longs for the feel of a 2004 edition of XBMC on OG Xbox. Nice work, I will for sure give it a go. 1 Quote
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