Re: [slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread Robin Bowes
jth said the following on 22/09/2005 18:11: If the server ever supports 'smart playlists', you could play all songs that don't have 'explicit' in their comment tag (for example). Smart playlists are the "right" answer to this and many other feature requests. Basically, if you can tag it and wr

[slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread Bruce Hartley
Another workaround. If you have the explicit music in a seperate folder, you can have a shortcut to this folder from your main folder. If you wanted to temporarily remove these tracks, just remove the shortcut, they will still appear in all the browse lists but will be unplayable. Rand

[slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread jth
If the server ever supports 'smart playlists', you could play all songs that don't have 'explicit' in their comment tag (for example). Then the burden is on you to create the tag on the explicit songs. I can see triggering playlist creation based on strings in the comment tag being useful for al

Re: [slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
bishopdonmiguel wrote: > There are times when you have guests around and you don't want > to be a rude & inconsiderate host. I have a sizable collection > "explicit" songs. Instead of showing off the Squeezebox when guests > are over, I usually shut it down and go with the radio or pop in a CD.

[slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread bishopdonmiguel
I mean no disrespect to anyone, but it's my subjective impression that while this feature may be desirable for a (sizable?) portion of the casual user base (especially those with families), it's currently not on the radar of the contributing developers. That's not to say the request will be forev

Re: [slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread T
Most of the music that I have with 'bad words' belongs to my kids, though I have my share as well. Tom ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

[slim] Re: Parental controls on albums or tracks?

2005-09-22 Thread ceejay
This was raised just a little while ago ... see the discussion at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16225 Amongst the possible solutions: - don't keep music that you wouldn't be happy with your kids hearing - don't worry about your kids hearing a few rude words every now and then