1.
- How do you find music in your own library?
Browse by artists or playlists
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different
situations ?
Web interface, direct by radio and android.
- Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings,
play counts,
We have now worked on the topic discussion in this thread for some time
and the current efforts has now been released to the public, see the
following announcement thread for more information:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713
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erland
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage'
1.
- HOW DO YOU FIND MUSIC IN YOUR OWN LIBRARY?
Browse by artists, playlists(static and dynamic)
- WHICH TYPE OF REMOTE/INTERFACE DO YOU USE ? DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT
SITUATIONS ?
Web interface and android.
- DO YOU FIND MUSIC THROUGH STATISTICS BASED BROWSE MENUS ? (RATINGS,
PLAY COUNTS,
Great thread! I have a couple of ideas/answers:
I too love muso for its album-oriented approach; I tend to play only
albums. Some better logic (or custom tag) for detecting albums and
discarding singles would be good (e.g. 'Tubular Bells' has only two
(very long) tracks, but it's an album, some
I used Squeezepad a lot. Recently wend over to iPeng. I do have a lot of
7 singles in my iTunes library. When I play them ( they are grouped as
a collection f.i. Favourite Single Tracks) you see the cover of the
first track in the collection. I want to see the cover of the track
currently
Hi yhatware.
I think you posted on the wrong thread so we should not go on here.
Could you please contact me on support(at)squeezePad.com
I need to know:
- what version of the squeezebox-server have you installed?
- how did you save your coverart (embedded in the files I guess?)
- do you have a
Erland in bold:-
1.
HOW DO YOU FIND MUSIC IN YOUR OWN LIBRARY?
Artist - Album or Composer - Album (using multi-library and custom
browse)
- WHICH TYPE OF REMOTE/INTERFACE DO YOU USE ? DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT
SITUATIONS ?
Mostly Controller, sometimes iPeng, rarely web interface.
- DO YOU FIND
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
I browse via the SB3 and Boom interface, I also do text match search in
the web browser and I use the fast iPeng remote to flip through artists
and albums. I sometimes use SBS random play feature, but I think that
musicIP is the best thing about
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
Search using Lazy Search
Browse via Artist or New Music
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different
situations ?
I use Moose, running either on my desktop
vagskal;566553 Wrote:
I loved muso and the way it sorted artists/albums and displayed
automatically information on biographies, reviews and similar artists
(from LastFM and Amazon), but development unfortunately seems to have
stopped.
Muso development never stopped permanently, the beta
vagskal;573816 Wrote:
Great! I will have a look at the new version.
As you helped in the development/testing you qualify for a free licence
too :)
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Extremely late to this thread, but here are my answers...
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
Usually artist - album if I know what I want. New Music if I know it
was recently added. Sometimes I will use a custom
So some questions to guide the discussion:
1. HOW DO YOU FIND MUSIC IN YOUR OWN LIBRARY ?
I choose albums and tracks explicitly. Mostly I browse by Artist. I
hardly every use static or dynamic playlists.
Our music collection has expanded considerably recently with stuff
added by the children.
Hi Erland. Here's how I do it:
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
I have different libraries per type of music: Classical, Jazz,
BluesRock, Other (mostly Pop). Within each library I usually search by
Genre (for
Oh Erland, how exciting is this :)
So, first, let me say that I have been using a Slimp3 or SqueezeBox
devices for a long time and have a large music collection (72000 +
tracks of all kinds of music) and have been trying to find the perfect
system for some time. During this quest, I have seen
Berg;572008 Wrote:
I would love to see this type of functionality available to SqueezeBox
!!!
Does that fit in your idea ?
In my opinion it fits perfectly.
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(Developer of 'many plugins/applets'
What I like most about this is that based of your listening history and
scrobbles to LastFM, the plug-in queries LastFM's recommendation engine
and selects music from your own library.
I can see problems with this approach:
1. Not all music is in LastFM's library, and scrobbling is also
Philip Meyer;572089 Wrote:
I can see problems with this approach:
1. Not all music is in LastFM's library, and scrobbling is also
dependent on matching tags.
2. New music added to SBS library won't have been scrobbled, and thus
never selected in a dynamic mix.
3. LastFM's
Here is an idea that would be neat to see; a playlist generator that
uses the Last.FM 'top tracks' for an artist. The idea being that you
could (in trusting in the wisdom of crowds) quickly get the most
popular tracks for a number of new / unknown artists in a new
playlist. I normally use
1.
At the moment I tend to browse albums or artists. However with a large
collection one tends to get not too far through the alphabet. By genre
tends to be too specific.
2.
Reviews in newspapers or aeroplane inflight channels have given me some
interesting finds in the past. Also, listening
erland;566383 Wrote:
So some questions to guide the discussion:
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different
situations ?
- Do you find music
I've decided it's time to start doing something based on this thread, so
now we need people with development experience.
If there is anyone reading this thread that have development
experience, is inspired and want to participate more actively to
realize some of the things mentioned in this
erland;566383 Wrote:
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
Don't do this often but its 50/50 browse via artist then album then
track or search via track title
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ?
The following 2 topics are on top of my whishlist:
1) Much better way to create and manage playlists
2) Handling of more than one library (ex.: separation of pop and
classic)
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SB3 Classic
Squeezebox server on Ubuntu 9.04 server
1. HOW DO YOU FIND MUSIC IN YOUR OWN LIBRARY ?
Usually My Music Albums (which are sorted by Artist / Year / Albums,
so it's a lot like browsing by artist), and sometimes My Music New
Music.
- most of the time I use the SBC, but sometimes also web ui and player
menus (be it Boom's front panel,
1.
HOW DO YOU FIND MUSIC IN YOUR OWN LIBRARY ?
About 50% of the time, I know what album I want, and get there via
Artist/Album. If it's a various artists compilation thing, I go
directly to it by Album.
Perhaps 40% I use a playlist. Most of my playlists are created with a
specific mood and/or
Thinking a while about this, I'd like 2 things most:
Getting targeted recommendations from friends. Not just knowing what we
each like and are listening to, but being able to send a message saying,
check this out. They know what I like and I know what they like. Friend
recommendations are by far
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
I'm mostly playing smart random playlists through Dynamic Playlist/SQL
Playlist plugins where I'm using TrackStat based ratings to get rid of
tracks I don't like. I'm usually using the IR remote to launch a smart
playlist.
And here comes the second part of my answers.
erland;566383 Wrote:
4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the
future ?
Spotify is a key komponent for me as it make it possible to preview a
specific track/album directly on the Squeezebox with decent audio
quality.
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different
situations ?
- Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings,
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
A VARIETY OF WAYS REALLY, YEARS, NEW MUSIC, ARTISTS, DECADES, RANDOM
MIX ETC. - REALLY DEPENDS WHAT MOOD I'M IN, PROBABLY NEW MUSIC
CURRENT YEAR ARE THE MOST USED
- Which type of
Further info/ideas...
I often play albums, but get to an album to play in different ways. eg. either
by browsing new music, artists, genres, years. By listing random songs/albums
and choosing an album to play based on something from the results.
Trackstat/Dynamic Playlist provides a lot of
TO EVERYONE THAT HAVEN'T POSTED YET:
First of all, I just like to say that this thread turned out to get
really interesting, so people who haven't posted yet, please post your
thoughts to the questions in the initial post. If you are interested in
music discovery related features, I want to hear
That's a very good idea...
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
Use the search function (when I remember only part of the song title or
artist name, because I have a lot of acid Jazz compilations..).
Otherwise by Artist or Album.
I use album art when selecting what to play...
2.
How
erland;567068 Wrote:
[b]There are also commercial pretty expensive solutions like
allmusic.com which from what I've heard mostly focus on B2B
integrations besides their web site, unfortunately this will make it
harder to have any discussion with them with only community
Let me start off by saying I agree with everything Pat suggested. Now,
at the risk of repeating myself...
erland;566383 Wrote:
So some questions to guide the discussion:
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
-
audiomuze;567175 Wrote:
Let me start off by saying I agree with everything Pat suggested.
I believe that it can be implemented fairly easily with only one
additional field in the sound/track table, and one in the album table.
This field is just a big space for text, that we use to store the
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- I buy/acquire new music quite often and thus use New Music as the
most common entry. Sometimes this leads me to want to listen to other
albums by the same artist for which I either drill down the menus with
the remote or use iPeng.
- Otherwise I
audiomuze;567167 Wrote:
SoundHound app. It's really worth downloading the freebie to check it
out - the demo is fully functional for recognition of 5 tracks per
month, and it'll give you a good idea of what's on offer.
I already have the payed version on the iPad and IPhone and like it and
erland;566383 Wrote:
It's getting painfully clear to me that it's not the primary focus area
for Logitech, at least not during the last year or two.
I don't think there's been any new functionality for browsing/playing
music from your own library in a hell of a long time - perhaps the last
This is a good idea. I agree that the innovations in this area have
been lacking as of late. Here are my responses:
1) As with my iPod, I navigate the browse menu via genre-artist-album.
This mimics the way I would browse my CD/LP collection back in the day.
I use either the Controller or the
I may be kind of special in that while I love to see cover art, have
tagged all my albums correctly to show it and also want to see it while
browsing I don't like to SELECT music based on the cover since I find
that rather confusing (I often don't recognize music based on the
cover). CoverFlow is
Philip Meyer;567244 Wrote:
I may be kind of special in that while I love to see cover art, have
tagged all my albums correctly to show it and also want to see it
while
browsing I don't like to SELECT music based on the cover since I find
that rather confusing (I often don't recognize music
pfarrell;567182 Wrote:
I believe that it can be implemented fairly easily with only one
additional field in the sound/track table, and one in the album table.
This field is just a big space for text, that we use to store the
unique fingerprint of the song/track/album. Perhaps we would want
Background: I have about 1700 albums and use the Squeezebox Duet to play
them. I live in Australia, so services like Last.fm and Pandora are not
available to me. I don't play music via internet services at all -
everything I play comes from my PC's HDD.
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you
erland;566383 Wrote:
However, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be the only one interested in
this kind of functionality.
Oh no, rest assure you're not!
erland;566383 Wrote:
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
I use my own playlist generator
Hi Erland,
thanks for initiating the discussion. Currently I use your plugins to
create random playlists based on various criteria and that's what I
listen to most of the time. This covers my current library. If I fancy
a change I will listen to albums. These are either selected via iPeng
peert;566798 Wrote:
I recently downloaded the Spotify plugin. I have been using Spotify free
for quite some time, but just got premium. I have been reluctant to get
premium since Spotify IMHO lacks a vital feature: the ability to create
dynamic playlists (similar to how I create them using
I normally Browse by artist or browse by folder.
When the music collections swallows speed is a bit slow sometimes.
I never use search.
The IR remote is superior when it comes to typing and speed.
I would be interested in a iPad client with a Spotify GUI so I could
easily create and edit playlist
Erland,
cool thread.
While I believe that there's a lot that can be done I don't think it's
only about user interface if it comes to discovering music with or
without a Squeezebox.
I'll distinguish by discovering my own music and discovering new
music here:
1. OWN MUSIC
For my own music I
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different
situations ?
- Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings,
play counts, history)
- Do
I'm not so interested in having SBS help me discover music outside my
collection, so I only comment on finding things inside my collection.
Searching: when I look at local library catalogues over the internet
for something more or less specific, I tend to use a keyword anywhere
search.This
Look like this Last.fm thing is kind of important to me. Never realized
how much.
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
I usually go for New Music since I add about 10-15 albums a week.
I mainly use iPeng on my iPhone and recently started to enjoy
SqueezePad.
I
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
-Most of the time, I use the My Music - New Music link. I frequently
add new albums to my collection, and I like to have an easy way to
access the latest music I've added. When I do a search, I tend to just
type into the
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
Since my library is mostly classical I mainly browse by COMPOSER and
WORK. I also use the New Music menu a lot, and sometimes use the
standard search menu when I can't find things
Dear Erland,
I have been interested with your classical library features for
long.
All I actually need is a way to find and sort work items (albums, too
but no problem there), I don't need to go further.
Integration of online sources and so on is of no interest for me, as my
musical interest is
fakarava2;566983 Wrote:
Dear Erland,
I have been interested with your classical library features for
long.
All I actually need is a way to find and sort work items (albums, too
but no problem there), I don't need to go further.
Integration of online sources and so on is of no interest for
Triode;566832 Wrote:
Latest version of the plugin supports randomly playing all tracks from a
specific artist. You can bookmark this as a favorite and it will play
that artist including any new tracks. Do you want this to go through
albums in order rather than randomly?
What!? Great stuff
Triode;566832 Wrote:
Latest version of the plugin supports randomly playing all tracks from a
specific artist. You can bookmark this as a favorite and it will play
that artist including any new tracks.
peert;566985 Wrote:
Awesome - must check closer!
And I just did. This is great stuff!
1)
I usually browse trough my music with one of our controller. I never
use my classic or boom for it. It is to hard to get a view over what we
got.
I browse using the artist and new music. Seldom trough genre and the
other stuff.
2)
We usually hear about new music on the radio or by friends
erland;566383 Wrote:
So some questions to guide the discussion:
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
I have 2xSB3, 2xDuet and 1xBoom, so browsing/searching depends on which
room I'm in and what I'm aiming to do. For finding a particular
track/album, I still find LazySearch
Erlang, I love your plugins. I'm not quite clear on what you are
proposing here at the highest level. Do you see this as a whole suite
of plugins?
Or perhaps a from scratch re-implementation of SBS functionality aimed
at being more collaborative?
I have dreamed of a complete re-write, but
erland;566383 Wrote:
However, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be the only one interested in
this kind of functionality.
No you're not alone in this :-)
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
All my browsing/searching of the SBS library is done through
In another thread Erland wrote this and suggested that it should be
possible to look up on Spotify and similar services artists/albums not
in the local library through a context menu.
erland;564817 Wrote:
I just realized something that would be really great. There are a few
plugins available
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
- Custom Browse Random Albums or Artist By Letter. Sometimes I use Lazy
Search for something really specific.
2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently
don't have in your library ?
- Friends, internet news/reviews... I have
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
Mostly My Music-Dynamic-not rated (use all kind of expressions) or top
rated
I m listening music based on ratings and history (top rated songs not
recently played)
Often use the simple search feature too. Album art is nice, i love it,
but i never
I have a large library of mostly classical/opera, with some soundtracks,
jazz, and electronica thrown in. I've ripped about half of it so far,
and have approx 2 TB of FLAC files.
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
By
I've been thinking a bit and it really feels like it's time to try to
move the Squeezebox products to the next level. I'd like to get some
more focus on features that's related to finding music both in your own
library and also new music which you currently don't have in your
library. It's
erland;566383 Wrote:
I've been thinking a bit and it really feels like it's time to try to
move the Squeezebox products to the next level. I'd like to get some
more focus on features that's related to finding music both in your own
library and also new music which you currently don't have in
erland;566383 Wrote:
However, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be the only one interested in
this kind of functionality.
Oh no, you're not.
erland;566383 Wrote:
1. How do you find music in your own library ?
I mainly use the browse by artists menu, and search for songs when not
remembering
I'm going to stick my neck out, but something has been bugging me for a
looong time. You don't really talk about this, and it's one hell of a
can of worms, but your talking about SqueezeBox improvements. So here
goes.
UPNP/DLNA client support.
I love SBS as much as the next person, but with
Aslak3;566427 Wrote:
Anyway, I'm interested to hear other thoughts on UPNP/DLNA.
That would be interesting but let's handle that in a separate thread
unless UPNP/DLNA is important for you to be able to find what to listen
to and find out which music you want to buy.
I don't want this
I've often thought a hook into amazon (or take your pick) mp3 purchases
would be great: I see you are listening to X, amazon suggests Y, shall I
buy it, download it, and pay it next?
-Chris
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, erland
erland.4f4vrz1280864...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
Good idea. answers below.
1.
How do you find music in your own library ?
- Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
TYPICALLY BROWSE BY ARTIST, THEN ALBUM
- Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different
situations ?
IPENG AROUND THE HOUSE, WIFE USES
I'll have to give your other questions some more thought, but this one
came to mind earlier today:
erland;566383 Wrote:
3.
How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the
future ?
- What kind of functionality is missing today related to browsing ?
- What kind of
and include a newsreader/downloading client
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pski;566457 Wrote:
so I guess it would need to check binsearch.info and include a
newsreader/downloading client
Do you find new music that way ?
Or is it just a way to get music after you have decided what you want
?
How do you use it today, do you have an artist in your mind and goto
erland;566383 Wrote:
2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently
don't have in your library ?
This is almost irrelevant, as it's not working as well as I'd like.
Mostly I listen to Internet Radio streams and try to take note of
interesting artists. My PlayLog plugin
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35229
The above-mentioned thread covers many of the things that speak
directly to the topic at hand.
To get an idea of how these technologies have been implemented in a
different, but extremely useful content, have a look at the free
version of
I have discovered music in most of the ways described in the tread .
But also via the amazon plugin (is it an app by now) and webradio
/last.fm .
Then when I hear something good i would go and put it in my basket, if
they have it.
This works in Eu to you can use amazon.co.uk or .de for you
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