I've often thought a hook into amazon (or take your pick) mp3 purchases would be great: "I see you are listening to X, amazon suggests Y, shall I buy it, download it, and pay it next?"
-Chris On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, erland < [email protected]> 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. > > 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. > > > So some questions to guide the discussion: > > 1. > How do you find music in your own library ? > - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus) > - Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different > situations ? > - Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings, > play counts, history) > - Do you find music through smart playlists based on statistics or > random selection or other kind of automatic mixes ? > - Do you use album art when selecting what to play ? > - Do you typically start searching/browsing from an artist, album or > track and want to find something related to that ? > > > 2. > How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't > have in your library ? > - Heard it on the radio ? > - Where do you start when searching ? Top charts ? Genres ? Similar > artists ? > - Do you use some web site when searching or do you browse some music > store directly ? > - Are you using the computer, your Squeezebox or some other device when > searching for new music ? > - Do you preview the music before puchasing ? Do you preview it on the > real system or cheep laptop speakers or something similar ? > - Do you use a subscription based service so you aren't actually buying > albums, you just need to find the albums/tracks you are interested in by > browsing the service ? > - Through reviews ? Any specific online site ? > - Through friends ? Some community site ? > > > 3. > How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the > future ? > - What kind of functionality is missing today related to browsing ? > - What kind of functionality is missing today related to searching ? > > > 4. > How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future > ? > - What would you like to do through the Squeezebox/SBS or one of it's > remotes ? > - What would you like to do on some other hardware ? > > > 5. > What kind of tagging/management do you do on new music you add to your > library to make it easier to find stuff later on ? > - Which additional tags do you add which isn't handled by standard SBS > today ? > - Is the folder structure the music files are stored in important ? > - If you use Custom Scan, which additional tags do you add besides > those supported by SBS ? > - Do you manually add ratings to your music ? Why ? > > > 6. > Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make > it easier to find interesting music ? > - Import statisitcs from MusicIP ? > - Export statistics to MusicIP ? > - Import files, playlists and statistics from iTunes ? > - Export statistics to iTunes ? > - Do you use some other application integrated with SBS/Squeezebox ? > > > I've probably missed a lot of relevant questions, so feel free to post > your thoughts about other areas that's involved in discovering old and > new music even if it's not mentioned in the questions above. > > 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. :-) > > > -- > erland > > Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) > (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' > (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). 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