In another thread Erland wrote this and suggested that it should be possible to look up on Spotify and similar services artists/albums not in the local library through a context menu.
erland;564817 Wrote: > I just realized something that would be really great. There are a few > plugins available that provides things like "similar artists" through > the context menus of an artist. For example, the Spotify and Biography > and Song Info plugins have functionality like this. > > [Snip] > > Scenario 2: > 1. I'm listening to an artist in my library > 2. I pull up the Biography plugin and lists some followers to this > artist > 3. I would now like to find and play some music on one of these > followers, to do this I would at this stage want to launch the "On > Spotify" menu for the selected follower. This is not possible today > since there aren't any context menus for items that doesn't exist in > the SBS database. I too use the similar artists function a lot to find "new" artists and to get ideas on what to play next. Erland's suggestion would make a great improvement. I would also like to be able to use such a context menu on a follower/similar artist in the Biography plugin to look up that artist in my own library. I also often use the song info context menu to look up guest artists and composers and play more tracks by them. With this approach I often wish it would be easier to expand an album, i.e. see, or play, all tracks in an album, not just the tracks where the artist/composer appear. Otherwise I mainly use the artist list to find music. I would use the search function more often if it was faster in large libraries. Now, I basically only use it to find songs I cannot otherwise find. I use the standard tags recognised by SBS and add cover art and information on original release year and style, mood, theme and album rating tags according to the system used by AMG. I also use the genres used by AMG and add Christmas, Compilation, Live, Soundtrack, Bootleg, Bonus Track, EP and Single tags. I have tried to import and use the style, mood and theme tags but I am experiencing such performance issues with a large library that I cannot do that currently. Importing and merging tags for original release year works so I use that and also import album ratings. I personally would not use a function to download music via SBS and automatically adding it to SBS, because I want to check and supplement the tagging before committing anything to SBS. I mostly play full albums. Sometimes I use CustomSkip to play only the original album and get rid of all bonus tracks with crappy demos, discarded takes etc. added to reissue albums. For the occasional random playing I would love to be able to use the style, mood and theme tags. Today I have only one dynamic playlist to play songs originally released in a particular year. Otherwise I use the standard random song mix with CustomSkip adequately configured. Before I sometimes used MusicIP, but as the library grew I experienced such performance issues that I stopped using MusicIP. Nowadays I use almost exclusively iPeng to control SBS. I loved muso and the way it sorted artists/albums and displayed automatically information on biographies, reviews and similar artists (from LastFM and Amazon), but development unfortunately seems to have stopped. I do not do manual or automatic rating of songs. I use only the album rating as reported by AMG. The folder structure is not per se important to me, but I find that SBS and other software works better if the structure is consistent (one folder per album). I do not embed cover art in flac files but use folder.jpg so the folder structure for those files becomes important. -- vagskal 2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver (wireless), Boom (wireless), Controller, iPeng on iPod Touch, muso on remote computer running Win 7 | 7.5.2 on Win XP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vagskal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20778 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
