Tethyr is designed for a world where video content is endless and we, either because we are interested or it is our job, are unable to turn away. In the current version of our future the quantity of video is annoying and the future version of our future the ill equipped will drown in video. Tethyr is your essential tool for the unpausable future.
Fact: Interfaces are designed by the platforms that host content and redesigned to funnel your actions towards a specific action that the platforms want you to take. Fact: Useful interfaces allow you to do what you need and move onto the next item, which is the opposite of what a platform wants.
Tethyr has a different approach. TYR is platform non-aligned: TYR supports content from a huge array of platforms and supported file types. TYR puts puts all of this content together (“we Tethyr it together”) into playlists and collect the playlists into groups. This approach untangles the gordian knot of your digital life and produces calm and order.
Once your digital junk drawer has been neatly organized you will be supercharged and find that time that was previously wasted with searching, scrolling and switching is now available to you and you can use the same tools to discover new things to watch or maybe even get offline.
How does Tethyr accomplish this as a playlist manager. Tethyr is a playlist manager, you create playlists out of playlist items and then Playlist Proups out of those playlists. You can have unlimited number of playlist and playlist groups and combine them in different ways for a unparalleled result.
Playlist Items
Tethyr supports a huge range of digital items including videos, images, web pages, podcasts, etc. Actually TYR supports so many different types of content it’s hard to find an appropriate term that is not a general term, for the sake of understanding we will use the term Supported File Types even though most of the things we support are not interacted with as files but as streams. Every file type that comes into TYR is displayed as a playlist item. All playlist items are managed in the same way regardless of what file type they are.
Playlists
Tethyr is based around playlists. Playlists are an essential part of Tethyr, you can’t play a video in Tethyr unless it is in a playlist. Each playlist has its own Playlist Number and is a unique item. If the same playlist is contained in multiple groups it will be the same across groups [a change made in to the playlist in one playlist group will be seen in the other playlist groups].
Playlist Groups
One or more (usually more) playlists is collected into a Playlist Group. Playlist Groups are like a folder of playlists and used to organize playlists.
Pending Feature: Currently for the demo you are unable to create your own playlist group or edit the ones you have. In the future we will have a Playlist Group Manager accessible from the Program header which will allow you to edit your playlist groups, create new ones as well as add pre-configured playlists as well as playlists created and shared by other users.
Example Use Cases
1. Totally Ignoring Everything
You can have one playlist where you put everything. That playlist will be in a playlist group with one playlist in it, it will be yours, there will be no other like it.
2. Slightly Organized
You are interested in Politics, Hockey and Knitting: You have one playlist group “Your Name” with four playlists: Politics, Hockey, Knitting & Random stuff.
3. Taking Control
You have one job two kids and not a lot of personal time. You make four playlist groups: “Work”, “Me Time”, “Kid 1” & “Kid 2”
4. Managing the Managed
As a manager you use TYR to keep teams on track. You have one Playlist Group that has all the playlists for the company “Company Masters”. From Company Masters you have created other groups “Company Sales” , “Company Dev”, “Company Marketing” , “Company Training” these groups only contain the playlists that are needed by the sales, dev, marketing, training department respectively. When you make a change to a playlist (no matter if it is in playlist masters or one of the other groups and you hit “Master” all of the instances of the playlist are updated. Using this method you are able to easily make sure that all team-members are using the current version of assets.