And here comes the second part of my answers.
erland;566383 Wrote:
>
> 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the
> future ?
>
Spotify is a key komponent for me as it make it possible to preview a
specific track/album directly on the Squeezebox with decent audio
quality.
Information as the one provided by allmusic.com is also going to be a
critical component, specifically I'm interested in similar
artists/followers/influenced by plus the list of released albums
together with reviews.
Sites like YouTube would also be a great source for previewing if we
ignore the quality issue. Even though video is nice I'd actually be
very happy if I was just able to play the audio part of a YouTube
video. If that isn't possible, it should at least be easy to provide
youtube links in the web interface, can probably be done already today
with Custom Browse if you like to.
Anyway, I feel that there a number of different ways I'd like to search
for new music.
The passive process:
- Turn on something and let it play music you like, you would basically
just have to start the journey. Basically SugarCube combined with
Spotify, select a track you like to start with and let it take you on a
journey of artists similar to the one you selected.
- The intention in my case of the passive process isn't necessarily to
find something I like to buy, the main idea is just to make the device
play music I like which I haven't heard before.
The active process:
- The first scenario is that this starts from my own library. I listen
or browse to something I like and wonder if there is something else out
there that sounds similar to this artist/track. The perfect scenario for
me would be the Biography plugin integrated with Spotify to make it
possible to find and preview artists from similar artists, followers or
influenced by relations. I think this is the way I'm going to find most
music I want to purchase as CD's.
- The second scenario starts with browsing a top chart of what friends
or all people in my region/country listen to. In this case I'd also
like to preview it directly on Spotify or similar source that provides
streaming audio of requested tracks.
I'm a bit sceptical if any of these active processes can be performed
on one of the Logitech provided Squeezebox interfaces. The web
interface probably has the best chance since it has the largest screen.
However, my hope is that we will see this kind of functionality on the
iPad Squeezebox controller applications. SqueezePad/iPeng and similar
applications on an iPad would be perfect for this.
In addition to this I'd also like a system where I could remember
recommendations from friends when I'm not at home. For example an
iPhone app where I can note a recommendation from a friend and when I
get home I can easily find that recommendation on my Squeezebox and
preview it through Spotify plugin. It would be kind of nice if friends
could also send a recommendation directly to me and I could easily
preview it on my Squeezebox using Spotify. For anyone that wants to say
that LastFM partly does this, the issue for me is that LastFM doesn't
support streaming in Sweden.
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 ?
>
I've experimented a bit with custom tags but in reallity I only rip my
music where I adjust the genres, add musicbrainz id tags and replay
gain information.
The folder structure is not important at all but I prefer to have one
directoy per CD as this is what gives best result in SBS scanner.
I used to add ratings through TrackStat but during the 1-2 years I've
only set ratings on tracks that I don't like and want to avoid being
included in smart playlists. So it's more like I select what to skip
than specify what I like. However, as mentioned above, if I could get
reliable ratings automatically that I just could adjust, I'd love
that.
erland;566383 Wrote:
>
> 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to
> make it easier to find interesting music ?
>
I export statistics (ratings, play counts) to MusicIP
I export statistics (ratings, play counts) to iTunes to make the iTunes
smart playlists work that decides what to synchronize with the
iPad/iPhone. This was a bigger issue with a 6GB iPod mini than it is
today with the 16GB iPhone (soon to be 32GB). I'm not really using the
ratings on the iPhone they are only used to be able to select what to
synchronize between iTunes<->iPhone
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