I bought my first squeezebox in February after long deliberation and prevarication and became hooked very quickly. Upgrading to the SB+ and matching amplifier I have now sold off my cd transport, dac and amplifier. Much as I love the SB environment, the one thing I really missed was being able to read the cd inserts while listening to the music (ok, some of the inserts are fairly rubbishy but others provide interesting information on the composer, artist, recording, libretto, etc.). I thought about physical solutions, such as keeping the inserts in ringfold binders etc, but a digital solution seemed more in line with the SB concept. So, being too old to learn PERL, I wrote a few scripts in PHP which will display gifs of the inserts on a web page. The most commonly used option is to show the insert of the cd now playing but searching by composer or artist are other options. The inserts are stored as scanned gif images in the folder directories (i.e., where the cover.jpg images are stored) as i.gif, 2.gif....... Scanning was a pain, but as I am retired I have the time. I read the images as web pages on a netbook I keep by my sofa. It seems to me it would be nice to have this feature integrated into the SB ipad apps which seem popular but maybe I am the only one nerdy enough to want to read the inserts? If others feel the same maybe Pippin or bluegaspode might be persuaded to look at this possibility?
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