Erland, cool thread.
While I believe that there's a lot that can be done I don't think it's only about user interface if it comes to discovering music with or without a Squeezebox. I'll distinguish by "discovering my own music" and "discovering new music" here: 1. OWN MUSIC For my own music I usually browse by Artist or by Album and often use Dynamic Playlists with Sugarcube to browse through that collection. That said: at 1.000 Albums (around 10.000) tracks my collection is not particularly big. I may be kind of special in that while I love to see cover art, have tagged all my albums correctly to show it and also want to see it while browsing I don't like to SELECT music based on the cover since I find that rather confusing (I often don't recognize music based on the cover). CoverFlow is something I tend to show off but never ever use. 2. NEW MUSIC As far as it goes I use Pandora and Napster a lot to discover new stuff, usually through Artist automixes. I used to use Last.fm for this but tfor some reason they only send annoying crap these days, maybe I have to clean out my account or something. I often use the TrackInfo menus to store Albums I discover and like in my profile to listen to them again later. This only accounts for around 20% or so of the new music I discover. The rest is plain old radio, which I listen to in my car so I would need some in-car-integration. And the vast majority is stuff I hear about from other people and that I usually check out on YouTube, Tape.TV or similar sites (you've got EVERYTHING on YouTube these days). IMHO, if you REALLY want to bring music discovery on the Squeezebox forward, this is the place to approach since this is where I have to switch media. The Squeezebox currently mainly lacks integration for all those media that are emerging as the new distribution channels for new music making it difficult to really use it for discovery, I don't really see how to get around that without tackling that integration issue. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
