Good idea. answers below. 1. How do you find music in your own library ? - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus) TYPICALLY BROWSE BY ARTIST, THEN ALBUM
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different situations ? IPENG AROUND THE HOUSE, WIFE USES CONTROLLER, AND I OFTEN USE SQUEEZEPLAY AS CONTROLLER FROM MY LAPTOP, WHERE I HAPPEN TO BE SITTING IN ANY CASE. - Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings, play counts, history) NO - Do you find music through smart playlists based on statistics or random selection or other kind of automatic mixes ? USE DYNAMIC PLAYLISTS, SQL PLAYLISTS PLUGINS AND STANDARD TEMPLATES, WHICH I EDIT TO PICK CERTAIN GENRES, EXLCUDE CERTAIN ARTISTS OR GENRES, AND ASK TO NOT PLAY SONGS THAT HAVE BEEN PLAYED IN THE LAST X MONTHS, ETC. VERY BASIC USE OF THESE PLUGINS TO CREATE RANDOM PLAYBACK WITH CERTAIN PARAMETERS. - Do you use album art when selecting what to play ? NO, BUT I LIKE SEEING IT. - Do you typically start searching/browsing from an artist, album or track and want to find something related to that ? ARTIST. 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? - Heard it on the radio ? YES, BUT TYPICALLY ONLY INTERNET RADIO STATIONS - Where do you start when searching ? Top charts ? Genres ? Similar artists ? NOTHING I LIKE THESE DAYS IS EVEN ON CHARTS. I READ SOME SPECIALTY WEB SITES, BLOGS, ETC. RELATED TO MUSIC STYLES I LIKE. AMAZON SOMETIMES RECOMMENDS STUFF, BUT I EITHER HAVE IT ALREADY OR I'M NOT ACTUALLY INTERESTED. - Do you use some web site when searching or do you browse some music store directly ? SEE ABOVE. - Are you using the computer, your Squeezebox or some other device when searching for new music ? COMPUTER. - Do you preview the music before puchasing ? Do you preview it on the real system or cheep laptop speakers or something similar ? SOMETIMES, COMPUTER SPEAKERS. - Do you use a subscription based service so you aren't actually buying albums, you just need to find the albums/tracks you are interested in by browsing the service ? NO - Through reviews ? Any specific online site ? NODEPRESSION.COM - Through friends ? Some community site ? FRIENDS 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the future ? - What kind of functionality is missing today related to browsing ? I'D LIKE SOMETHING LIKE MUSICIP BUILT IN. I KNOW I COULD INSTALL ALL THIS, BUT I DON'T WANT TO GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE OF SCANNING 60K PLUS FILES TO HAVE THE SOFTWARE GO AWAY, WHICH IT SEEMS IS PROBABLE. - What kind of functionality is missing today related to searching ? NO COMMENT, BUT I DON'T REALLY SEARCH THAT MUCH. 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future ? - What would you like to do through the Squeezebox/SBS or one of it's remotes ? - What would you like to do on some other hardware ? RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MOST PLAYED SONGS WITHIN MY LIBRARY, COULD BE SBS OR OTHER. 5. What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to your library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? NOTHING OTHER THAN MAKE SURE TAGS ARE COMPLETE AND CORRECT. - Which additional tags do you add which isn't handled by standard SBS today ? NONE - Is the folder structure the music files are stored in important ? SORT OF. I LIKE AN ORGANIZED ARTIST/ALBUM OR COMPILATIONS/ALBUM TYPE STRUCTURE. - If you use Custom Scan, which additional tags do you add besides those supported by SBS ? NO - Do you manually add ratings to your music ? Why ? NO. 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make it easier to find interesting music ? - Import statisitcs from MusicIP ? NO, BUT WOULD LIKE TO - Export statistics to MusicIP ? NO, BUT WOULD LIKE TO - Import files, playlists and statistics from iTunes ? NO - Export statistics to iTunes ? NO - Do you use some other application integrated with SBS/Squeezebox ? NO I DO KEEP TRACK OF TRACKS PLAYED BY SCROBBLING TO LAST.FM -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
