cparker wrote: > Might be slightly going off topic :) But there is a Linux GUI and there > is also GenPUID which can be scripted, so you dont need to have > Windows. >
My problem is the last version of genpuid 1.4 can only update the Windows version of the database (1.9) so it's only good for archiving tags not to update the actual MIP database. When I ran the Windows version I could run genpuid with the multiple thread option on my desktop to update the database completely which was awesome, but sadly LMS really worked better under Linux so I had to give that up. I'd like to do the updating of the database using my desktop cpu instead of taxing my nas, but it can't get it to work as seamlessly under linux as I did under Windows. The real limitation of MIP at this point isn't the platform but the processor if everything keeps moving away from x86. That to me is the only reason to look beyond MIP, since it really is unique in the entire music mixing arena for reading tracks on their own merit as opposed to reading from a central database. My, albeit limited, experience with Pandora is that you end up with really generic mixes which are so heavily weighted by the genre and artist that you end up with similar sounds regardless of what you pick. I'm also skeptical that any cloud-based service can make sense of the numerous tagging inconsistencies that naturally occur in big music collections, but I'm curious as how well they do. MIP has definitely been one of the highlights for my of the Squeeze ecosystem and one of the main reasons that for me there is no next system beyond Squeeze only finding new ways to keep it going. That said Dynamic playlists have largely supplanted MIP mixes for most of my day to day listening. If there was a way to integrate the two to either tweak MusicIP more easily (most of the settings in SugarCube, the official plugin, and dynamic mix are too hard to change or not even read) or integrate into dynamic playlists (filter the musicip tracks and reject them based on other criteria) that would negate the need for anything else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
