>As Philip has said multiple times Sorry, I get passionate and easily wound up!
>you can do exactly this with third party plugins and SBS already today. >The difference is that in Winamp it's included as standard and in Winamp >it's quite a bit easier to configure. The third party plugins for SBS is >actually >even more flexible than Winamp but the problem is that to use their full >functionality you need very deep knowledge in the plugins, Winamp is a >lot easier to configure for non technical users. The user interface for >browsing in Winamp is a lot better than SBS+third party plugins. > I can believe that, to a large extent. I've not used WinAmp for a long time, but there are several apps that have functionality that sounds very similar. I find an awfull lot of Erland's plugins to be quite easy to setup - to do most of what it said here is not all that hard. eg. Custom Browse has several layers to it: 1. Choose menus from pre-configured lists. i.e. ones provided by the plugin, or by other people that have published their menus. 2. Create new menus from pre-configured templates. Just pick some values from various options to tailor the menu a bit further from the default published ones. 3. Further complex configurations, eg. writing SQL to do something not provided by templated menus. I think (1) and (2) are pretty easy to work out, albeit done through html pages, rather than drag & drop. (3) is a power user thing that allows you to do pretty much anything. The thing is that the browse menus need to work across a multitude of different interfaces, which other apps like WinAmp haven't got to worry about so much. >I've lost any hope that Logitech will ever implement it in the standard >SBS software because their new target customer "massmarket Joe" want >simplicity and not more advanced browse methods. I've tried to make >them interested in music discovery/browsing since 2006 and the interest >is less today than it were back in 2006 > Worse than that, the new UI interfaces are less functional than previous SB models. e.g. using Touch stand-alone has less configuration options. It is more likely that future revisions of SBS have less options than today, as they standardise UI features for ease of maintenance. e.g. the "One browser" branch of development may cause some changes in functionality? _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
