MrSinatra;601262 Wrote: > first of all the current implementation sucks. it sucks b/c it is not > user friendly and not intuitive and not flexible. No, the current implementation doesn't suck. The implementation is doing exactly what it was set out/designed to do. It may not be how you would like to visualise your library. It may not be totally flexible, but it is intuitive and works. There are loads of inexperienced users who just pick it straight up and use. They don't have to worry about how to filter/sort.
It was predominantly designed to support the hardware players. The fact that there is a way of visualising your library on a desktop PC through the web UI is a bonus. Okay, more flexibility would be lovely. But, Logitech have shown no interest in improving the UI to be more flexible, and in effect have a higher maintenance cost. You are not interested in paying more money for such functionality and think you should just get it for free for some reason. It's unlikely to happen. But, because of the the flexibility of the design, it HAS been possible to enhance functionality through plugins. That has been achieved in the form of Erland's wonderful plugins, predominantly CustomBrowse. You ought to give it a try instead of moaning about "it doesn't do this, that or the other". Erland has asked you to try something because he thinks it roughly achieves what you want (albeit textual, rather than a nice table). If you were to try it, and comment on how it could be made better, maybe third-party support would continue to make alternative solutions that would do what you want. But all I ever hear are childish whinges... > i've used SBS a long time, and showed it to others, and i find it > unpleasent and so do they. Well, I've had the totally opposite experience. Maybe it's the way you present it to them. > no one uses it who doesn't have the hardware, and that should tell you > something. Yep - it wasn't designed as a free package for people who don't want to buy hardware players. It was predominantly created to support text-based 2-line hardware players, and was extended. Same goes for iTunes, which love it or loathe it is popular, but mainly only for people who own iPods. -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84475 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
