RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
why not just get Music Magic and create the playlists dynamically from one song. it's way easier and you may even find some hidden gems in your collection. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Khuli Sent: 12 August 2005 09:32 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! wr420 Wrote: I'm sure this kitchen can use another cook.. How about a send to plugin During the playback of any song, playlist item ect.. Hold down some button on the remote. A send to dialog would appear on the screen allowing you to choose an existing playlist to add that song to or option to create a new one. As a new SB user, I'm astounded that this isn't standard behaviour. One of the reasons for buying it was to make it easy to create a 'Party playlist', a 'romantic playlist', a 'background music' playlist... etc etc -- Khuli ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Matt On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:23, Matt Alioto wrote: How about using my selection option and have the selection default to the last Playlist you sent to, Or to a predefined configurable default send to playlist? Would that be more acceptable? that would make more sense. Maybe a dual function key? Press once fast and it automatically adds to a predefined default send to playlist or the last you sent to. Press and hold brings up a selection option. this would work if there was a button on the remote that wasn't currently being used (as you need both the single click and the press + hold functionality). Perhaps a plugin to disable the +/zapped function and replace it with the send to function so it's a bit intuitive. that would also make sense. Q. the zapped functionality currently removes the track from the current playlist. would you envisage the plugin moving the track or copying it to the new playlist? You could have something like:- - press and hold ADD brings up list of playlists defaulting to last selected playlist (which would be zapped playlist on first invocation). - use up and down to select saved playlists + zapped playlist + create new playlist. - press ADD again to copy the track to the selected playlist. If the selected playlist was zapped then move instead of copy. Would it then jump to the end of the currently auditioned track or would it continue playing it? My gut reaction is to continue playing because it is easy to jump forwards with the FF button if you need to, but you might want to add it to several playlists (by repeating the above steps) or you may be building playlists in a situation when other people are listening to the now playing tunes and having it jumping around automatically would get annoying. Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be legally privileged and/or price sensitive. Notice is hereby given that any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may be illegal. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. All e-mail sent to this address will be received by Acacia Pacific Holding's e-mail system and is subjected to archiving and review by someone other than the recipient. Acacia Pacific Holdings has taken every reasonable precaution to ensure that any attachment to this e-mail has been swept for viruses. We accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advise you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Also sounds a bit like the rating function available through both WinAmp and MusicMagic. But having said that, I wonder if gdg was talking about intro-scan (as follows): 1. Select intro-scan functionality on a given album/artist/genre/existing playlist etc - this creates a new playlist 2. A few seconds (e.g. 10) of the first song are played 3. If track is approved by listener, listener presses some button (e.g. play) to continue to the end of the track and keep the track in the playlist 4. If track is rejected by listener, listener presses some button (e.g. fwd) which removes the track from the playlist and goes to next track 5. If listener leaves SB running (with no intervention from remote) then you just get 10 second bursts of each track (and a huge playlist) So in the context of intro-scan the fwd button would have different functionality; it would, in fact, have 2 functions combined (in this context) - (1) skip track instead of the current fast forward and also (2) delete currently playing track from playlist. Does that sound about right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josef Shvejk Sent: 01 August 2005 04:46 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! It sounds similar to the gmail starred feature: Starred - Messages or conversations to which you've given a special status so you can follow up on them later. Interesting concept ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Perhaps something along the lines of a Favourites list? I'm thinking along the lines of the flag or mark idea: 1. Listening to whatever is on the current playlist, and hear a song that stands out above the rest; 2. Use some functionality on the remote to add the currently playing track to an ad-hoc Favourites playlist; 3. Meantime, the current playlist continues; 4. At some point in the future, navigate to Favourites (which would require a new menu item under the Browse Music hierarchy) to play back your selected favourites. For the additional functionality in the remote, how about something like press and hold x e.g. press and hold play or press and hold repeat to add to Favourites playlist. This would require a new functionality for one of the remote buttons, plus an addition to the current Browse Music menu tree. I have no idea about this sort of thing, so don't know how feasible it would be to implement. But having thought about it, it would be quite a cool feature and one that I would probably use. From a PC, it would then be possible to sae the Favourites as a normal playlist ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Isn't this pretty much what the 'zapped' playlist does? You press and hold the 'add' key to move the currently playing song to it, rather than just delete it. I haven't used it for a while but I assume it still works? James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
I've seen the zap button in the fishbone skin on the web panel - but how do I call up the zapped playlist? I always assumed it simply deleted the zapped tune from the playlist - I don't know it send the tune somewhere else... Plus I always though pressing/holding 'add' button just added a track to the end of the current playlist (rather than creating a new playlist of 1 single track, and clearing the current playlist) Damn - this zap thing sounds pretty cool - how do I use it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig, James (IT) Sent: 01 August 2005 11:11 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! Isn't this pretty much what the 'zapped' playlist does? You press and hold the 'add' key to move the currently playing song to it, rather than just delete it. I haven't used it for a while but I assume it still works? James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
As I recall, you need to be on the 'now playing' screen, where pressing 'add' removes the current track. However holding it down moves the track to a playlist called 'Zapped Songs'. You should then be able to browse that playlist in the usual manner (it won't exist if you've never zapped anything) James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Cool - yep, I've just found it through the web panel. Excellent :) Going to have a play with it to see how it works through the remote. Cheers! Dan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig, James (IT) Sent: 01 August 2005 11:24 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! As I recall, you need to be on the 'now playing' screen, where pressing 'add' removes the current track. However holding it down moves the track to a playlist called 'Zapped Songs'. You should then be able to browse that playlist in the usual manner (it won't exist if you've never zapped anything) James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Question for gdg though: James - although I get the idea of the functionality you require, I've never seen this functionality on any CD player. In one of your earlier posts, you mentioned that this is a common feature of the standard CD player... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goodinson Sent: 01 August 2005 11:31 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! Cool - yep, I've just found it through the web panel. Excellent :) Going to have a play with it to see how it works through the remote. Cheers! Dan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig, James (IT) Sent: 01 August 2005 11:24 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! As I recall, you need to be on the 'now playing' screen, where pressing 'add' removes the current track. However holding it down moves the track to a playlist called 'Zapped Songs'. You should then be able to browse that playlist in the usual manner (it won't exist if you've never zapped anything) James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Indeed it does. Damn. The zap thing sounds very cool, too. Any way to access this functionality via the remote? I have a hazy recollection of pressing/holding add button to add a selected track to the end of the current playlist. So if you've sorted out your playlist, and are browsing other tracks with the remote, then you can append the playlist rather than overwriting it. I _think_ that's right, anyway. Although would be quality to be able to zap track using the remote... Anyone? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of max.spicer Sent: 01 August 2005 12:57 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! If you press Add on a song that is already in the playlist, it will be removed. Max gdg Wrote: A delete button would also work. That way one could listen then add or subtract it from the playlist. (that's what you do in the computer interface). -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Dan, All these actions can be done from the remote. You just need to be in the 'now playing' playlist. (I didn't even know there was a 'zap' button on any of the skins) James NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
You can get pretty close to your flag idea if you take advantage of the zapped songs functionality. When playing a song in Now Playing, if you press and hold the add button the song will be removed from Now Playing and added to your Zapped Songs playlist. Once you've added all the tracks you want to add to Zapped Songs then just load up the Zapped Songs playlist and save it as a new playlist under any name. The only drawback is that the next time you want to do this you'll need to go to your computer and manually clear the Zapped Songs playlist. Or I'm sure a plugin could be developed to accomplish that. I just realized that I can't even do what I'm proposing from the computer. When creating a playlist, as soon as I attemp to play a song (because I need to preview it), the list is deleted. Unfortuneatly I suspect there are fundamental technical issues with the creation of an additional que where one could store song selections (that are previewed in the playlist) You want a suggestion? Here's a simple halfway measure that I would find VERY usefull. THE CURRENT ISSUE: How do you create playlists? THE PROBLEM: You have to have already decided what you want to put in the list BEFORE it's created and how do you do that? Do you keep a pen and paper at your listening seat and note each song that you like while it's playing in order to create the list later? Do you memorize the stuff you want to playlist? These techniques are neither very efficient nor particularly intuitive. THE SOLUTION: As a halfway measure one thing I would find VERY usefull (and easy to implement) would a flag button (on the remote)so that one could keep track of tunes that one wants to put in a playlist at a later time (other than when SB2 is actually playing). At the computer interface this flag could show up as a check mark beside the song track. One could then visually search for the flagged songs or better yet, use a search feature to locate the flagged tunes . It would then be easy(er) to mix and match songs in playlists. *In terms of needing a new button on the remote I believe that would also be an easy problem to solve: Just use the current add button and give it 2 user defined funtions flag or add (which could be toggled in the server settings menu). PS I have done something my own version of a flag technique for years. On the back of the CD box I would simply check or circle (with permanent marker) the songs that I liked. That would facilitate the quick creation of a selected tracks playback list on my CDP whenever I cued up that CD. -- gdg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Ha...sorry...I didn't see this branch before I posted this same idea to the other branch... Isn't this pretty much what the 'zapped' playlist does? You press and hold the 'add' key to move the currently playing song to it, rather than just delete it. I haven't used it for a while but I assume it still works? James ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
On Aug 1, 2005, at 7:57 AM, superbad wrote: An interface proposal for the original question, a way of playing a song without adding it to the playlist: 1. Press and hold Play on the remote to pause the current playlist (if anything is playing) and play (preview) the selected song without adding it to the Now Playing playlist. 2. Press Add to stop the previewed song and add it to the end of the Now Playing playlist. Press Pause on the remote during a preview to stop the song and jump back to whatever you were doing before the preview. 3. Add a preview button to the web interface to do the same thing as #1 above. Reasonably intuitive, and not something you would happen upon without knowing it's there (avoiding new user confusion). One issue with new users is that they often press and hold without knowing it. We need to make sure that the press-and-hold behavior is a superset of the press once behavior (or very similar) and doesn't do anything scary or unexpected. (For example, pressing-and-holding ADD when browsing Now Playing removes a track, the same as one quick press, and then adds it to the zapped song list.) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
On 1-Aug-05, at 5:13 AM, Craig, James (IT) wrote: Indeed it does. Damn. The zap thing sounds very cool, too. Any way to access this functionality via the remote? I have a hazy recollection of pressing/holding add button to add a selected track to the end of the current playlist. So if you've sorted out your playlist, and are browsing other tracks with the remote, then you can append the playlist rather than overwriting it. I _think_ that's right, anyway. Although would be quality to be able to zap track using the remote... Anyone? yes, press and hold add will zap. really, I'm failing to see what any of this thread has to do with 'serious flaws' if you want a feature enhancement, please file at: http://bugs.slimdevices.com -kdf ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
MeSue wrote: dean Wrote: One issue with new users is that they often press and hold without knowing it. it's not just new users. i experience this fairly often, mostly due to inconsistent UI responsiveness on the SB2. Example: i push a button once, nothing happens. (this may be due to a bad button press, or the fact the the SS is taking something more than the usual amount of time to respond) my immediate response, and i think that of many people, is to press again only harder and longer. voila, unintentional press-and-hold. once the SB2 interface snaps back to life, various forms of hilarity can ensue. usually the slow response is on first use of the SB2 after some amount of idle time. seems to be an issue of the server having to get back to a more active state for this service. (VM swap, DB connection timeout, ???) most notable lag: firing SB2 for the first time in a couple of hours and going straight to 'Browse New'. it will often just get stuck there. will post more on this as i am able to better characterize the problem. didn't really mean to start a thread on this, just reacting to the unintentional press-and-hold thought. --rt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
It's hard to your subject line The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! as the work of anything other than a troll. If you want help you might try being a little more diplomatic. ra -Original Message- From: gdg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:40 PM To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws! Refering to where I should be posting and what tone I should adopt to please you: mac Wrote: Agreed on both counts. http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/5735.html Why don't you lighten up. I wasn't originaly trying to get a feature change. I was fishing for other people's way of working around this issue. I still havn't found one. But I havn't explored what a skin is yet and maybe that's where the answer lies. I got that info here and that my friend is the purpose of the forum. As to whether this is a flaw or lack of functionslity or whatever you want to call it... who cares? I'm trying to find a way of fulfilling a basic requirement that I have as a user. Is that OK with you? -- gdg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
No, I haven't done that. I was just replying to your specific point that you ...can't modify and then overwrite an existing playlist. It must be renamed and the previous one deleted. :( Which isn't true. You can load a playlist, add or remove songs, and then save it under the same name (overwriting the old one). I do this frequently. This has nothing to do with your preview request. I admit there is no way to do that currently (via the remote control, anyway). For me, I know most of my songs well enough to not need a preview. When I am in the mood to audition music, I usually do it from the PC. I have Winamp open to preview, and then construct the playlist using the Slimserver software. On 8/1/05, gdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mitch, Have you tried doing this with a song that is playing? That's where I run into a problem. Once again, you need to know what you are going to add to the playlist beforehand. You can't audition and add at the same time. It you try and do this there is a conflict between the playlist and now playing. -- gdg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
gdg wrote: Why don't you lighten up. I wasn't originaly trying to get a feature change. I was fishing for other people's way of working around this issue. I still havn't found one. But I havn't explored what a skin is yet and maybe that's where the answer lies. I got that info here and that my friend is the purpose of the forum. As to whether this is a flaw or lack of functionslity or whatever you want to call it... who cares? I'm trying to find a way of fulfilling a basic requirement that I have as a user. Is that OK with you? GDG, this is an open source community. The people who are reading your message are the people who donate their free time to work on this software as a hobby. If you insult them like that, they're just as likely to say, screw it, I've got better things to do with my time as they are to actually implement the (perfectly legitimate, and quite useful sounding) enhancement request you have. It's frustrating to see people treat the slimserver hackers poorly; doubly so when the people doing it have really good feature requests that I'd like to see implemented, and I fear that the good idea will get tarred with the bad attitude. - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
I'm sure this kitchen can use another cook.. How about a send to plugin During the playback of any song, playlist item ect.. Hold down some button on the remote. A send to dialog would appear on the screen allowing you to choose an existing playlist to add that song to or option to create a new one. Although there is probably a feature request or a plugin already created for this I just felt like the topic deserved another post;) Matt The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be legally privileged and/or price sensitive. Notice is hereby given that any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may be illegal. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. All e-mail sent to this address will be received by Acacia Pacific Holding's e-mail system and is subjected to archiving and review by someone other than the recipient. Acacia Pacific Holdings has taken every reasonable precaution to ensure that any attachment to this e-mail has been swept for viruses. We accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advise you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 02:11, Matt Alioto wrote: How about a send to plugin During the playback of any song, playlist item ect.. Hold down some button on the remote. A send to dialog would appear on the screen allowing you to choose an existing playlist to add that song to or option to create a new one. This is basically what I was suggesting in my earlier post. However, I think that prompting you for the target playlist each time that you want to save a song would get time consuming. Much better to define your secondary playlist once and then this be the target until you next change it. Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Sorry Alex, I didn't see your post cause of the prepended subject line. The serious flaws part was cut off. The reason I suggested to select a playlist was I never plan on making the playlist ahead of time. I've got over 40,000 songs in almost every part of the spectrum and I forget what's in there sometimes. I just put random tracks on sometimes not knowing what's going to come out. I hear a song and want to add it to a particular list. I do agree that a selection option would get annoying if I were adding to the same list or building a particular list for a party or something to that extent. Matt This is basically what I was suggesting in my earlier post. However, I think that prompting you for the target playlist each time that you want to save a song would get time consuming. Much better to define your secondary playlist once and then this be the target until you next change it. The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be legally privileged and/or price sensitive. Notice is hereby given that any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may be illegal. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. All e-mail sent to this address will be received by Acacia Pacific Holding's e-mail system and is subjected to archiving and review by someone other than the recipient. Acacia Pacific Holdings has taken every reasonable precaution to ensure that any attachment to this e-mail has been swept for viruses. We accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advise you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Mat On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:05, Matt Alioto wrote: Sorry Alex, I didn't see your post cause of the prepended subject line. The serious flaws part was cut off. sorry - thought that I would try and make it more accurate and relevant to the discussion... ;-) The reason I suggested to select a playlist was I never plan on making the playlist ahead of time. I've got over 40,000 songs in almost every part of the spectrum and I forget what's in there sometimes. I just put random tracks on sometimes not knowing what's going to come out. I hear a song and want to add it to a particular list. I do agree that a selection option would get annoying if I were adding to the same list or building a particular list for a party or something to that extent. Well if this was the case then in an ideal world I would have something like (always assuming that the button definitions aren't already defined):- press and hold 1..9: add current playing tune to the selected playlist in slots 1..9. press and hold 0: prompt for a playlist to save current playing tune to. Then you could set up your most common 9 playlists and rapidly classify things as you went along, or just drop it into your obscure playlist as and when the obscure track came up. I think that these key combinations are currently handled by the Quick Access plugin, but there may be another combination that was appropriate (is it possible to detect combinations of key presses?) or run it relatively easily from the web interface. snip Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Alex How about using my selection option and have the selection default to the last Playlist you sent to, Or to a predefined configurable default send to playlist? Would that be more acceptable? Maybe a dual function key? Press once fast and it automatically adds to a predefined default send to playlist or the last you sent to. Press and hold brings up a selection option. Perhaps a plugin to disable the +/zapped function and replace it with the send to function so it's a bit intuitive. Matt Sorry Alex, I didn't see your post cause of the prepended subject line. The serious flaws part was cut off. The reason I suggested to select a playlist was I never plan on making the playlist ahead of time. I've got over 40,000 songs in almost every part of the spectrum and I forget what's in there sometimes. I just put random tracks on sometimes not knowing what's going to come out. I hear a song and want to add it to a particular list. I do agree that a selection option would get annoying if I were adding to the same list or building a particular list for a party or something to that extent. Matt This is basically what I was suggesting in my earlier post. However, I think that prompting you for the target playlist each time that you want to save a song would get time consuming. Much better to define your secondary playlist once and then this be the target until you next change it. The information contained in this e-mail is strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only; it may also be legally privileged and/or price sensitive. Notice is hereby given that any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may be illegal. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. All e-mail sent to this address will be received by Acacia Pacific Holding's e-mail system and is subjected to archiving and review by someone other than the recipient. Acacia Pacific Holdings has taken every reasonable precaution to ensure that any attachment to this e-mail has been swept for viruses. We accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advise you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
Matt On Tuesday 02 August 2005 03:23, Matt Alioto wrote: How about using my selection option and have the selection default to the last Playlist you sent to, Or to a predefined configurable default send to playlist? Would that be more acceptable? that would make more sense. Maybe a dual function key? Press once fast and it automatically adds to a predefined default send to playlist or the last you sent to. Press and hold brings up a selection option. this would work if there was a button on the remote that wasn't currently being used (as you need both the single click and the press + hold functionality). Perhaps a plugin to disable the +/zapped function and replace it with the send to function so it's a bit intuitive. that would also make sense. Q. the zapped functionality currently removes the track from the current playlist. would you envisage the plugin moving the track or copying it to the new playlist? You could have something like:- - press and hold ADD brings up list of playlists defaulting to last selected playlist (which would be zapped playlist on first invocation). - use up and down to select saved playlists + zapped playlist + create new playlist. - press ADD again to copy the track to the selected playlist. If the selected playlist was zapped then move instead of copy. Would it then jump to the end of the currently auditioned track or would it continue playing it? My gut reaction is to continue playing because it is easy to jump forwards with the FF button if you need to, but you might want to add it to several playlists (by repeating the above steps) or you may be building playlists in a situation when other people are listening to the now playing tunes and having it jumping around automatically would get annoying. Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
You'd have to have every song in your CD collection commited to memory? I certainly don't. An interesting side effect of having the SB is that I am way closer to really having everything memorized. That is, before I could tell you from which album every song was because I had just stuck in the CD. But, now I can tell you the track, album, and probably the year. Sorry if this distracts from the original thread but it's one of the first thing I noticed happening once I really started to use my SB. Thanks, Phillip ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: The SB2 appears to have some serious flaws!
It sounds similar to the gmail starred feature:Starred - Messages or conversations to which you've given a special status so you can follow up on them later.Interesting conceptOn 7/31/05, gdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THE SOLUTION: As a halfway measure one thing I would find VERY usefull (and easy to implement) woulda flag button (on the remote)so that one could keep track of tunes that one wants to put in a playlist at a later time (other than when SB2 is actually playing). At the computer interface this flag could show up as a check mark beside the song track. One couldthen visually search for the flagged songs or better yet, use a search feature to locate the flagged tunes ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
