>whatever, put the power in the users hands! don't have restrictive, >unintuitive, ridiculous, silly methods of entry (home>albums, >home>artists, etc...) Why is that silly??? You say you want more than one view, and SBS has that - Browse Artists, Browse Albums, etc. And then you say that's silly.
Remember that there are not one-to-one relationships between entities here. An album can have multiple artists, albums can have songs with different genres, etc. So one master list/table for albums view doesn't work if you want to sort by artist, or sort by genre, etc. You either end up with albums repeated in the list, or sorted under an arbitrary artist/genre/etc. The problem is that browsing albums sorting by anything other than album is largely a silly thing to try to do. It can only ever end up in anarchy. It may work for some people with simplistic views of their music collection. This is why it is useful to have different views: A list of artists, where each artist appears once. A list of albums, where each album appears once. A list of genres, where each genre appears once. eg. Browse Albums, sorted by genre is pretty meaningless to me. If I have an album that has songs with genres: 1. Pop 2. Ambient 3. Indie 4. Pop + Live + Acoustic + Christmas Then where would I expect to see the album in a list of albums sorted by genre? How would I discover a set of albums that have Christmas songs? A single list view always based on albums just doesn't work. >hey, they are adding DLNA/upnp support. thats a nice, unexpected, out >of the blue turn in the right direction. I think there's probably another underlying driver in the decision to re-implement UPNP support (which it has had for quite a long time, just not very good). i.e. Some other Logitech product that they can link SBS into. >there is no way anyone who uses the SBS browsing can say "this is how it >should be, this is good, >this is intuitive." Well, I can. What is provided is intuitive - I don't think anyone can say that they don't understand what is presented. But, obviously there is room to make it more configurable, to have additional ways of browsing. >it FLAT OUT SUCKS. > No, you just don't understand. It may not be optimal, and I agree that there are many improvements that could be provided out of the box for browsing the music library in different ways, but it certainly doesn't flat out suck. Most users seem more than satisfied in fact. >so my hope is that if they can eventually see the light on DLNA, they >can see the light on revamping a broken, ridiculous methodology that >only Phil loves. > Yeah right. All of the SBS music library browsing is broken. It ridiculous and only I like it. All other users have just been keeping quiet about it. >actually, as i pointed out earlier, most people have AA tags (or comp >tags) on their stuff. its a VERY small minority who have neither. No, you don't know that. >to me, it isn't about any of that above. the whole "comp, not a comp" >game is a ridiculous rubric. to me its about browsing whats in your >tags. do you want to browse the "big list" of all artists, or do you >want to browse the "small[er] list" of album artists. K.I.S.S. thats >how most people think of it, one or the other, (or both together), b/c >that reflects what they have in their tags. its just that simple. > I've no idea what you are arguing for here. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
