[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Bruce Hartley
I don't know about the whole profiles thing, maybe that's overkill. But I would like a way of segmenting the music library. Particularly I would like a way of limiting the choice that the random plugin could make, but I guess that's one for the 3rd party forum. Cheers, Bruce. -- Bruce

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Randall
kdf Wrote: were you asking for ideas, or merely giving orders? if it's the latter, you can take a number... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -kdf He ordered me first! -- Randall ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread dean blackketter
On Aug 11, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Randall wrote: kdf Wrote: were you asking for ideas, or merely giving orders? if it's the latter, you can take a number... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -kdf He ordered me first! Now, boys, I don't care who started it. Don't make me pull

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Amster
Randall wrote: kdf Wrote: were you asking for ideas, or merely giving orders? if it's the latter, you can take a number... http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825 -kdf He ordered me first! I did not see the issue until you explained the user/squeezebox control

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread JJZolx
User profiles strike me as a feature that must happen at some point in time. But the idea of multiple libraries is something that wouldn't have to depend on user profiles. It might be a browse level above Browse Music. The question I'd have is how do you designate what is contained within a

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread ron thigpen
JJZolx wrote: But the idea of multiple libraries is something that wouldn't have to depend on user profiles. It might be a browse level above Browse Music. true, it doesn't have to depend on user profile, but it helps. some of the user issues that were driving the requests for multiple

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
The server does already make use of the HOME environment for users in some OSes. If the server were tweaked a bit to allow it to easily run as multiple servers, the user profile slimply becomes a matter of running the server under a different user, with associated prefs, library, db, etc. You

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread ron thigpen
kdf wrote: The server does already make use of the HOME environment for users in some OSes. If the server were tweaked a bit to allow it to easily run as multiple servers, the user profile slimply becomes a matter of running the server under a different user, with associated prefs, library, db,

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread JJZolx
fuzzyT Wrote: i'm thinking of multiple libraries all being in the same database, just with tracks having a reference to the library that they belong to. Trying to refactor the existing server to run multiple libraries concurrently would probably end up being very similar to running

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread kdf
Quoting ron thigpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: also, wouldn't this increase overhead for system resources to load multiple instances of all the server bits? well, I think I'm just getting the impression that demands for how this must work will end up causing the one instance to double up on so much

RE: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-11 Thread Matt Alioto
well, I think I'm just getting the impression that demands for how this must work will end up causing the one instance to double up on so much already. Its a given that once such a feature is created, there will be a user out there who will demand that it works in every different way

[slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-10 Thread Randall
Michael Amster Wrote: Randall wrote: Howdy dev team. Question. I'd like to see the squeezebox allow different profiles. Why not? For example. Say I personally have 50% decent songs while the other 50% are songs that have explicit lyrics in which I really wouldn't want others to

Re: [slim] Re: Multiple Profiles?

2005-08-10 Thread kdf
On 10-Aug-05, at 8:49 PM, Randall wrote: Michael Amster Wrote: Randall wrote: Howdy dev team. Question. I'd like to see the squeezebox allow different profiles. Why not? For example. Say I personally have 50% decent songs while the other 50% are songs that have explicit lyrics in