> 1. How do you select which music to play today ? > (Browse, Search, Random, Smart playlists, other?)
I browse by a series of tags. Most commonly (for classical music), Genre, Composer, Album (Work name) and then Artist (performer.) Sometimes I have to finally select a particular version (mono, stereo, rematering version). Sometimes by Genre, Composer, Artist, Work Name. Sometimes by Genre, Sub-genre, Composer, Work Name, Artist. For other kinds of music, I use simpler orders of tgs. However, for old broadway standards, I start with Composer then Artist and then Song name. Or Song then artist. That's what I do in J. River Media Center 12. The browse panes (lists) for all these tags are on the PC screen so I select tag values in the order I want. I'd like to do the same thing in a PC interface to Slimserver. On the SB display, I want to select one tag value and then a value for another tag. > 2. How would you like to select which music to play > in the future ? In addition to the above, I'd sometimes like for SS to pick at random, playing all tracks of a single performance of a single work. No single tag is sufficient to specify all tracks of a single performance. I'd like to tag my music files with whatever tags I want and then use those tags to select music files to be played. > - Do you like to be in control your self where you manually > select exactly which song to play and in which order to > play them ? Most of the time. > - If you like to be in control yourself do you do this by > creating a number of static playlists that you use later > or do you like to browse/search for the exact artist/song > every time ? I browse every time. > - Do only like to use browsing functions or only search > functions or both ? On MC 12, 95% browse, 5% search. > - Do you base the selection on what to play next on the > currently playing song/artist ? Mostly not. > - Do you want the system to automatically select music for > you ? Sometimes. If it does it right. > - If you want the system to select music for you, > which type of logic should it base the selection on ? > Do you want it to be totally random or should it do > some more clever things ? It should not be stupid like playing fragments of multi-track works unless I say that is OK. I should be able to specify Genre, sub-genre, Composer and such. I should able to specify a smart playlist without writing code. > - Do you want to system to automatically suggest music > but still have the control to select exactly which > of the suggestions to play ? > What logic or information shall the suggestions be > based on ? Not iterested. > - Do you want the selection to be based on other peoples > listening habits or just your own ? For example by using > information from LastFM/Amazon.com and similar sites for > the automatic selection ? Heavens, NO! ---- I'm impressed with your work so far. I'm very disappointed that the developers of SlimServer have done nothing to make SS/SB itself usable for classical music in a year plus and according to the roadmap don't intend to in the next major release. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
