Before I start, please don't read this the wrong way. I'm not complaining about anything, just puzzled! It could well be that the plugin just isn't for me, but I'd like to give it a fair chance first.
What's all the shouting for about the RandomPlay plugin? What does it give me that I didn't have before? As far as I can tell, it gives me a way of playing ten tracks at random, and that's it. I can't add another ten tracks until the first ten have finished playing. How is this better than the current random functionality? Granted, without RandomPlay I can only have _all_ tracks/albums on random, but there's nothing to stop me pressing stop when I'm sated. Why would I want only ten? I understand that RandomPlay was really only written to provide an alarm clock functionality, so what is the advantage when you use it on its own? One advantage that I can think of is that it exposes RandomPlay functionality in a more obvious way than the current "select random and add tracks method" (but see my 2nd paragraph), but wouldn't it be better just to add a more obvious path to do this into the ui (i.e. add some menu items that automate the task)? I thought that this is what RandomPlay would do, but it seems not. A more general issue that's been bugging me for a while is how plugins are integrated into the main SlimServer distribution and released with it. Surely, once a feature is deemed good enough to become part of the core distribution it should cease to be a plugin, or at least its plugin nature should be hidden from the user. If RandomPlay is a good feature that is included as standard, why should the user have to know to look for it under Plugins? This part of the interface seems completely counter-intuitive to me. Plugins should be things that the user added themselves. Anything else should be properly integrated. Please take this paragraph as an invitation for discussion, not as a winge! Max -- 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 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
