ralphpnj wrote: > ...This post got me to thinking about an area where digital audio > continues to fall way short of it's vast potential. I'm referring to the > lack of hyper-linking within a digital audio music library. For example > by this I mean the ability to be listening to Miles Davis' classic "Kind > of Blue" while looking at the "now playing" display on either a > computer, tablet or smart phone and having the all the information about > the recording right in front of you but with full hyperlinks to various > aspects of the recording. There would hyperlinks on the all the songs, > composers, musicians and recording data (engineer, studio, date, etc.) > and clicking on any hyperlink would bring up information about that > item, both in general and in one's own music library. Click on "Bill > Evans" (the piano player on "Kind of Blue") and one could see a full > biography and discography of Mr. Evans plus a list of all the recordings > in one's music library that Evans appears on. To me this is the kind of > connectivity and information that computer based audio should be > striving for and once this kind hyper-linking is properly and fully > developed and implemented the power of computer based digital audio > would be well beyond reproach. >
Do we really need all of this distraction while listening to music? I realize it is all 'different strokes for different folks', but I can't imagine the value of spending my listening time clicking through a bunch of hyperlinks. Regards, Bob FLAC->SB Touch (wired)->PS Audio DLIII DAC->Yamaha RX-595->Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.5. Music files are stored on a Synology NAS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audio53's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5576 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
