OK, I'd like a proper system for web browsing of classical music, and I have $100 for anyone who does it! Erland, this might have your name written on it!
It is very similar to the Fortuna system here: http://www.fortunaclassical.com/5-3-06/maestro/interface.cfm?movie=search It's also very like the dabs way of shopping at www.dabs.com The basic principle is to have a filter-based system whereby one can browse through genres. In the genre tag I use multiple values as follows: > Classical (included in all classical) > Period - baroque (there are 6 or 7 periods, all with tags of this > format) > Scale - orchestral (there are just three scales - also instrumental and > chamber) > Instrument - violin (there are many different instrument choices) Ideally, these would be dynamically generated, so people who had different systems would just tag as appropriate, and the filter system would realise that the " - " (or whatever) was a separator. It would then produce the filter system automatically. Then there would be a system for selecting the other fields: artist and album, certainly; opus number, conductor, orchestra and soloists would be great but not essential. Then we'd have a big list of what currently fits into the filter criteria. Then there would be some drop-downs for what (and how much) to show, sort order etc, and how to group things. Here is an illustration of what I'm getting at: [image: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x67/AmDismal/ExampleFilterSystem.jpg] This would work via the web browser only - I don't think it makes sense via the remote. It does need to work on my Nokia 770 too! So not much to ask for $100 is it? :) I think it is something that should be included by Slim Devices, but since they have not done so, and are not looking like it, I need to rely on the open source community. If others make valuable contributions, I'll happily contribute CDs from Amazon wishlists or whatever. If there is a better place for such requests (feature request on bugs?), then let me know. And, of course, if anyone else wants to contribute cash, it might provide more of an incentive! Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37545 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
