After 5 years with squeezeboxes and squeezecenter/slimserver, I have four SB3s and a Transporter, a library of 125k tracks, and an unfortunate daily frustration with the lack of some functionality. I wanted to enumerate what I wish this platform did so that developers and logitech staff at least have an opportunity to vet it.
1) I wish the soft knob on the transporter would allow me to set it to default to volume control. I've used it without a preamp, and it is annoying to have to find and press the volume button. 2) Deduplication AT THE PRESENTATION LAYER of tracks. If two songs have the same metadata, dont show me both of them. If I select an album, and i happen to have two copies of it, don't add every track to the playlist twice. If two copies exist, only show the one encoded with a higher bitrate. 3) Fix the itunes plugin so that i can have it ONLY IMPORT PLAYLISTS, and refresh them often, and not my entire library. I use itunes to build playlists because playlist management on the slimserver interface is so poor. I also use itunes to build playlists because i like genius. I want my itunes playlists to show up in playlists, but not everything else. This seems like it should be so easy! 3) Real itunes integration so i can use genius playlist generation in real time from the SC interface. I don't care if its a scripted backend sending keystrokes to the application, only care about the results. genius is much beter with the size of collection and type of music i collect than is musicip, and musicip is effectively dead as an organization. yes, musicip is dead. nobody maintains the musicmagic plugin anymore. the developer at musicip who wrote everything hasnt worked there in a year. 4) A UPNP client that works. Sometimes I have music in other places than slimserver. Sometimes friends come over with music. It sure would be nice to allow them to access their music through the squeezebox. 5) I'm dreaming here, but an airtunes target. A plugin which allowed me to use the digital output from an airport express and re-encodes it on the server would be fine too... so when people ask "how can i play some music from my laptop" i can tell them to just find the "slimserver" airport express, select the transcoded input on any of the players, and hear what they are playing. -- chroma ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chroma's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22010 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67747 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
