erland;566383 Wrote: > I've been thinking a bit and it really feels like it's time to try to > move the Squeezebox products to the next level. I'd like to get some > more focus on features that's related to finding music both in your own > library and also new music which you currently don't have in your > library. It's getting painfully clear to me that it's not the primary > focus area for Logitech, at least not during the last year or two. At > the moment with the smaller team, they seems to be mostly focused on > fixing bugs, doing some technical enhancements and doing small > enhancements to the core functions, but nothing revolutionary related > to the music discovery. I should say that the Logitech developers are > doing a great job with the amount of resources they have access to, so > this isn't any critique on them. >
You're probably the ideal person to spearhead this: anyone who has used your plugins knows how well they work to make a library manageable. > > However, if we want something to happen it feels we need to take this > into our own hands. I'm not sure about exactly how to do this yet and > I'm also not sure how much time I'm personally prepared to commit on it > but I like to at least start a discussion about what's missing to make > the Squeezebox the best music discovery device out there. If I decide > I'm not prepared to do this myself this discussion might at least > result in some good ideas which Logitech can use. Hopefully more people > in the community are willing to help with various parts if something > good comes out of this discussion, I'm definitely not going to do > anything if I'm alone. However, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be the > only one interested in this kind of functionality. > You're not. :) My music buying has slowed down lately and that's not good! > > How do you find music in your own library ? > I tend to just wander: I do use Dynamic Playlists for my morning alarm clock, and for my "I don't know what to listen to" things.... >From my 'Random SQL' one (which is pretty much a normal random playlist, but I exclude 'Explicit' and 'Comedy' and such genres, as well as things less than a minute long or more than 15m... this is my usual 'work mix'), I sometimes hear a song and think, "Oooh, let me play something else by them." Being able to insert something (track or album) into a playing playlist would be nice. I think I can do that in Fishbone with an option, but never remember to turn that on. For the "I just heard this, now want to take a diversion, but don't want to remember to turn Dynamic Playlist back on when that album ends" sorts of cases. I do have mostly complete album art and do sometimes choose from Albums when I don't know what I want. I usually just choose a random page and look at cover art to see what tickles my fancy at that point. > > How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't > have in your library ? Last.fm and Emusic, the wife uses Pandora. When -really- bored, Amazon to see what they tell me to listen to. Emusic and Amazon unfortunately have to be done from a browser. I do often play a song and wonder what is similar use that as a key to start a last.fm 'similar artist' station. That works well right now. > > I realize there are many questions to answer and that this is a huge > functional area, so feel free to answer in several posts if the forum > post max length feels too limited. :-) What about if my brain just overloads and I have to take a break? :) As I said, most of my personal library discover comes from Dynamic Playlists of some variety... I am curious how to expand that to "not in my library". Last.fm and Pandora type services seem to be good for that, but they're sadly limited in areas they can legally serve. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
