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Question: What's your highest priority
- More images of your music collection
- More Screensafers
- Better player syncing
- Mysqueezebox.com - Player Switching
- Better Search
- Drag'n'Drop for the playlist
- TrackStat Ratings
- IRBlaster integration
- Big Screen with Album Covers for selection
- Something else
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daveconger;601849 Wrote:
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> I have a request for a feature that I've never heard anyone ask for,
> which makes me think it is either impossible or outside normal usage.
> Here it is: integration of Napster and local music. I know it sounds a
> little crazy, but I use Napster like my own music collection (i.e.,
> looking through artists, picking one, and playing one of their albums)
> and it's annoying switching between the two artist lists. If the two
> lists became one, it would be like having one most excellent artist
> list. (Likewise for the albums list, and possibly the track list.)
> Even if it can't be done as a single list, what about two lists
> side-by-side - one being the local artists and the other being the
> Napster artists? Or if that's still too much, what about having
> searches return results from Napster and local music? Any of these 3
> implementations would really be outstanding. Thanks!
I would love this but I like to use Spotify instead of Napster.
I really don't care if the music comes from my local library or one of
the online services I'm paying for. If I have an album in my local
library I want the system to use that, else I want it to use the one
from the online service. Possibly with an extra dialog asking if I like
to use the version in the online service.
Unfortunately, I suspect this is a bit out of scope of the current
SqueezePad client. I suspect something like this requires support on
the server side.
However, something that probably could be done is something similar to
what Triode has done with the Spotify plugin. When you open the context
menu on an artist in the local library you get an "On Spotify" item at
the bottom and by selecting that you will get a list of albums by this
artist available in Spotify with the option to play them. I suspect
something like this would be possible to add to SqueezePad for the
Napster service.
Another possible solution is if it's possible to create a favorite for
a Napster artist ? If that's possible, you might be able to setup
favorites for all your local artists and for all the Napster artists
you are interested in and get a common list of them under the Favorites
menu. The issue is just that you probably don't want to do this manually
if you have a lot of artists. A "Favorite Artists" lists is probably
realistic to do manually but not a "All Artists" list.
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