Chrobrego wrote: > > * Use a "search and filter" type of interface (cf > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search). Browsing static > hierarchies is slow and boring, especially if you have to create those > in advance (cf custom browse or even playlists). Navigation should be > highly dynamic. Look at Plex app. Sort capability should be advanced too > (eg sort artists by number of albums) > Just to better understand this, are you looking at a scenario where you are sitting in front of a computer, tablet, smartphone or IR-remote ?
I think faceted search can definitely work on a computer and it might also work on a tablet, but on a smart phone/IR-remote you would probably get something similar to the "Tags" menu which is provided by Custom Scan/Custom Browse combination when using the Mixed Tag scanning module in Custom Scan plugin. The "Tags" menu provided with Custom Scan/Custom Browse plugin will let you select one criteria at the time and then browse for available items, select the next criteria, browse for available items that also matches the first criteria, so it is kind of faceted search but it doesn't give you the same overview/flexibility as a faceted search on a computer or tablet would give you. We did a fairly flexible prototype interface for faceted search in SMD project so it's definitely possible to do, at least for local music, but as pippin mentions it won't work with standard LMS it would as a minimum have to be enhanced with a plugin but possibly to get good performance it would either need a separate server or data cached locally on the tablet/smartphone/computer doing the browsing/searching. If some third party developer would be interested to experiment a bit with implementing a faceted search interface for a computer or tablet, please let us know. We might get there ourselves in the future, but it's too early to say for sure at the moment and I think this kind of functionality is something that would be perfect for a third party developer to experiment with and show the concept to make it easier for us to decide if it's something we should include in the core or if it's better to let third party controller app handle it. The advantage of ickStream compared to many other proprietary solutions is that we offer an API for browsing/searching content which will make it possible for third party developers to add things we don't have the resources to implement ourselves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
