Hi Bill Many thanks for the considered feedback! I agree with your summary of requirements, they are pretty much what I had in mind. The Slimserver/Squeezebox is fairly easy to set up to do all of those things EXCEPT that smart selection by conductor/etc is less than ideal.
I'll just address a couple of the easier points: - Gapless - yes, you're right to highlight this as a requirement. However you don't have to go the single file/cuefile route - FLAC, properly ripped, will do this just fine. Equally, if you go the single file/cue sheet route you can still play a single movement if you fancy (Slimserver works out that it is a "track"). - grouping the tracks/movements correctly together to make a piece (eg symphony) is also, I agree critical. This is why the "Album" recommendation is key. If you set up the 4 movements of a symphony to be one album then slimserver will find it very easy to play that album for you - listening to a whole CD is made easy if you use the recommendation to put one CD in one directory - then you can use the Browse Music Folder function to play it (although the pieces might not come out in the same order - this depends on careful track naming) I appreciate your request for a fully detailed scheme for all of this. There's a dilemma waiting for us (me!) here though: if I write up one of doing it and say "do it this way" there will be lots of people who have equally valid ways who might disgaree. Which is better will depend on subtleties in desired usage. The way I'd thought of which might address this - its come up in another context as well - would be to write a "This is how I did it" example, which leaves it open to others to contribute their own. Would that be helpful? The last point is a bit more fundamental: any guide can only describe how to use the system as it is, not how we'd like it to be. And its fair to say that I've not yet seen a perfect system for dealing with the complexities of Classical Music playing, there is a certain amount of kludging going on here. There may well be a case for a separate thread asking for more/better functionality! In the meantime I'll have a go at bringing some of your comments and suggestions into the Guide as it is. Thanks again for the feedback! Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
