erland;566383 Wrote: > 1. How do you find music in your own library ? > - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus) > - Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different > situations ? > - Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings, > play counts, history) > - Do you find music through smart playlists based on statistics or > random selection or other kind of automatic mixes ? > - Do you use album art when selecting what to play ? > - Do you typically start searching/browsing from an artist, album or > track and want to find something related to that ? > A few more details up on this specific question ... As several others apparently do, I often browse by "most recently added" (last day/week/month). With social networking (via Spotify and Facebook?) and an ever-changing list of artists/albums/tracks/playlists "recommended by" friends, I suspect I would like to do the same (most recentely recommended), and then use Spotify to preview.
As for remote control: I use two programmable Philips Prontos, an old monochrome NEO (TSU500) for the kitchen and a newer TSU9400 for the living-room. I do not (yet) use any WiFi plugins for the remote (don't remember why not, I did try), but with this type of plugin, you can get album art on the remote while browsing. Kind of cool, but nothing I think would use actively to find what I'm looking for. I think one could have some serios fun with a programmable, WiFi-capable remote that connects to SBS, Spotify and facebook. Still, the remote might not necessarily be the key; a good SBS setup would do most of the stuff, and the remote would simpy navigate the menus. The important thing is that the menus are "remote-friendly" in the sense that you can navigate by distinct identifiers (eg. item #5 or item "XYZ")and not depend on scrolling thru visible menus with an undefined point of entry. Also, most remotes are not very user-friendly in terms of entering text. Hence I seldom use the remote to "search for" anything, rather to browse and select. Compared to a computer, the remote is the mouse rather than the keyboard. I usually do all the setup from a computer (pre-defined searches etc), and arrange the menus in a "remote-friendly" way. -- 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
