sebp;632294 Wrote: > Just trying to make it a bit clearer (or not) with an example: > > ... > > Browsing classical music has nothing to do with the way you browse > popular music. > To be efficient, it has to be flexible. > If you have the time, I would really love feedback from you on the "Tags" menu you get after installing Custom Scan and Custom Browse plugins and scanning in Custom Scan with the "Mixed tag" scanning module. If you have custom tags, you can also scan with the "Custom tag" scanning module to make tags such as WORK available.
The "Tags" browsing menu works like this: 1. You select what to browse (for example "Composer") 2. You select an item of the type you selected in point 1 (For example "Beethoven") 3. You select what to browse next (for example "Genre") 4. You select an item of the type you selected in point 2 (For example "Chamber Music") 5: ... (and continue the same two step process unless you have limited the result to find what you want) At each level after you have select an item (after point 2 and 4) in the example, you have the possibility to select "Matching Albums" or "Matching Songs" when you get deeper into the menu the list of matching albums and eventually also songs are shown automatically. It's hard to describe in text exactly how it works, so that's why I'd love if you could try it and provide some feedback. The reason I want feedback is not actually for the Custom Browse/Custom Scan solution, it's about something completely new which a few of us are working on and I want to have some ideas how people with classical music would like the menu system to work like. Don't use 7.6 if you try it, Custom Scan currently is extremely slow in 7.6 when starting the server. There is a tutorial on the wiki that describes a more complex setup with separate menus for Classical and Pop music, so if you get stuck you might find the answer on this wiki page: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Setup_dynamic_menu_to_browse_music_by_tags The tutorial does a lot more, so don't be scared about it, to just get the "Tags" menu it should be enough to just: 1. Install Custom Browse/Custom Scan 2. Perform a scanning with SBS and wait until the Custom Scan setting page reports that the "Mixed Tag" scanning is finished, (if I remember correctly it's enabled by default) 3. Goto My Music/Custom Browse/Tags (If it isn't there the "Mixed tag" module has either not finished scanning or you need to restart SBS) The "Tags" menu offers the exact flexibility you are looking for, but the disadvantage is that it creates a bit deep menu hierarchies. So I would like someone to try it to hear if we can improve it somehow in the new solution to make it better. And very important, I'm NOT talking about the web interface, I want you to try it in IR, SqueezePlay or some iPhone/iPad app, because for the web interface I think we can do something a lot better, the problem is how to make it user friendly in the small screen interfaces. Also if you like the "Tags" menu approach, it would also be interesting to here if you would like to combine this full flexibility menu with some more statical menu hierarchies and in that case how you would like these statical hierarchies to look like to make it good for classical music. If there is someone listening to a lot of jazz seeing this thread, I'd really love similar input also from a jazz perspective. I'd also love feedback from other classical music lovers than sebp. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86452 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
