My must have's are most of Erland's plugins. The ones I use are Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Dynamic Playlists, SQL Playlists, and Trackstat.
With Custom Scan and Trackstat I can do things like filtering my MusicIP mixes based on ratings and play stats. For instance, my default filter in MIP is for songs rated 3 and higher that have not been played in a month. With Custom Browse I can do a sort of simulated Multi-Library Based on a tag in the comments. One example is I have tagged all my husband's favorite music with a special tag in the comments, and set up a menu in Custom Browse which only shows those songs. Since our music is all mixed together this works better than the Multi-library plugin for us. It can do a lot more, like you can browse by years or decades, or ratings, or a subset of genres, or never played songs, and so on. It's all very customizable so you aren't restricted to the menus that SC provides. Dynamic Playlists and SQL playlists lets you make never-ending playlists based on stats and tag info. For example, Rock Favorites pulls a random mix of songs rated 4 or 5 from only my rock genres. Dynamic Playlists can also make static playlists play dynamically. So for example, you could have a static playlist of several hundred workout songs, but when you queue it up as a dynamic playlist it will randomize it every time. It also adds a limited number of songs to start and keeps adding one new song at a time so you don't have to bog down the server by loading a massive playlist and trying to shuffle it. Erland's plugins do have a bit of a learning curve to figure out how they all work together, but they have enhanced my listening so much! I'd suggest setting aside a full day to figure them out, if you do try them though. -- MeSue Sue http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54470 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
