I'm not so interested in having SBS help me discover music outside my collection, so I only comment on finding things inside my collection.
Searching: when I look at local library catalogues over the internet for something more or less specific, I tend to use a "keyword anywhere search." This allows multiple keywords connected by implicit boolean AND, which can match any part of any field in the library's structured database. Of course, this is also what we use in search engines such as Google, which search the whole internet, or when searching amazon.com. This is also more or less the behavior of simple search in iTunes. I would very much like to see SBS implement this behavior, or have a plugin to SBS do it. Such searches can always be refined on the fly by adding a keyword, but I would also like the output of a search to be browsable. Browsing: Browsing is winnowing. One should be able to successively refine the output by making choices. A reasonably successful implementation of this idea can be found in iTunes column browsing setup. I think the main idea should be interactive refining or winnowing: output should always be refinable by adding criteria on the fly. -- fredgoodman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fredgoodman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7616 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
