erland;566383 Wrote: > However, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be the only one interested in > this kind of functionality. Oh no, rest assure you're not! erland;566383 Wrote: > > 1. > How do you find music in your own library ? > I use my own playlist generator (http://p2rplaylister.sourceforge.net) to dynamically generate playlists from multiple selection criteria based on ID3 tags and/or file system properties. A few typical cases are to find all music by a one or more specific artists, one or more specific genres, etc. I also generate playlists for individual artists with a filter to exclude artists with very few songs - this makes it easier to browse thru artists when I want to select some "background music" (while working or cooking dinner, etc).
When I browse for music, I typically select one of these "major artists" or one of the "genre/artist-based" playlists. Now, I made my "playlister" before I was using SB, and I realize that many of these features are covered by SB. But I think it still has its value; it adds a few features that are missing (or that I didn't discover ;-), and it helps me browse my music collection when played "offline" (not using SP, e.g. from an USB disc at the office). erland;566383 Wrote: > > 2. > How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't > have in your library ? > I recently downloaded the Spotify plugin. I have been using Spotify free for quite some time, but just got premium. I have been reluctant to get premium since Spotify IMHO lacks a vital feature: the ability to create dynamic playlists (similar to how I create them using my own "playlister"). The Spotify Radio might be heading in the right direction, but the selection criteria is IMO far to limited. I would love the ability to create playlists based on the name of one or more artists rather than selecting the artist and manually adding all individual songs - an operation I would have to repeat whenever each interesting artist releases a new album. The UI-based operations for searching, selecting and playing an artist works OK in UI, but is hard to use from the SB remote; having a choice of dynamically created playlists to select from would be much easier (+ the list would be much smaller). Now, this may of course be an issue to raise with Spotify rather than on the SB forum, but you asked for opinions :-) erland;566383 Wrote: > > 3. > How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the > future ? > I think my current approach works quite well, but would like to see the same functionality in Spotify. If something is missing in SB, it would be the ability to create dynamic, composite "playlists" from the selection criteria you already have (or is this perhaps already possible? Haven't looked for it since I had my own approach when I first got to SB). erland;566383 Wrote: > > 4. > How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future > ? > Browse Spotify for "similar artists", "other people who listened to this also listened to", "a friend suggested this music", etc. Social music networking :-) erland;566383 Wrote: > > 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 ? > No additional tags. I manually add genres since I want multiple genres (is ABBA Swedish or Pop or both?). If there is something I miss in MP3 tools in general, it is the support for multiple genres - I am VERY happy that SB supports it! I also miss a sane way of managing sort orders; the current way of tagging artist sort order is inherently flawed. I recently reported a bug/enhancement request for this: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16416 erland;566383 Wrote: > > 6. > Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make > it easier to find interesting music ? > I have used MusicIP to add missing metadata, but it has messed up my tagging a number of times since it doesn't recognize multiple genres, and since it adds its own artist sort tag (XSOP - see forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80558). I am now VERY careful of using MusicIP - it does wonders for an initial tagging operation, but I would be VERY careful about using it after having done any manual tagging. I would be equally careful with any "auto-tagger". erland;566383 Wrote: > > I've probably missed a lot of relevant questions, so feel free to post > your thoughts about other areas that's involved in discovering old and > new music even if it's not mentioned in the questions above. > Thanks for a number of REALLY good plug-ins, and for taking this initiative! -- peert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peert's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19646 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
