Smart playlists? Hell Id be happy with some decent dumb playlist features! ;-) I cant believe how long it has taken to get playlists just to function without the duplicate tracks bug. Simple yet refined track selection should be a top priority for Slim Devices.
How about sort by song title? Or by any tagged criteria? Is this not obvious? The current playlist pane should have custom columns, and if not multiple sort criteria (clutter), at least non-destructive sorting. (Is this in a skin I dont know about?) Id care less about playlists if there were better search features. I want to be able to play all CDs on a recording label, or all song remixed by an artist, or all compilation appearances by an artist. Takes just a minute to add the data tags, but a long time to build/maintain playlists. All tagged criteria that should be added to search options. What would really be a smart playlist is one that figures out when youve moved a track file. Instead of .m3u playlists based on filename/location have a playlist format that is based on the tags, that can go find your selections even if you move them, or correct a one of the tags. Save the user much redundant manual input and maintenance. The database could stand to be a bit smarter about changed tracks. Dump and rebuild every time I move a track file Should be a better way. New music should (optionally) be based on file creation rather than file modified. A five year old file that gets re-tagged moves to the new music results ahead of the new CD entered the day before. The delete file feature (fondly referred to as the shit list) is one of the only features I miss on my old Sony changers. Add a file to the shit list and the player skipped it unless you deliberately selected it. (This one sounds tricky so I wont demand it.) Dynamic random crossfade: Crossfade only when random play is active. Detect when a track is mixed to the next in the album recording and let them play together before skipping to the next randomly selected track. Perhaps this could be assisted with tagging. This is just a few features buggin me today. -- random_tox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ random_tox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
