1. How do you find music in your own library ? - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
Since my library is mostly classical I mainly browse by COMPOSER and WORK. I also use the New Music menu a lot, and sometimes use the standard search menu when I can't find things easily in those menus. - Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different situations ? iPeng almost exclusively. 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? I'm a primitive and still prefer collecting CDs. SB can be helpful here by reminding me what CDs I already have. Having that be available offline on my iPod when I'm browsing in a store would be great. 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 ? First, something has to be done about the speed and convenience of integrating new data into the custom browse menus. It takes over 4 hours for a scan of my library (currently about 1.3TB of FLACs). 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 ? I redo the COMPOSER, ARTIST, CONDUCTOR and BAND tags and add the new tags listed below. The important thing is consistency. I don't want to hunt for Beethoven under "Beethoven, Ludwig van", "Ludwig van Beethoven", "L. V. Beethoven", and various misspellings. It would be nice to have this data in a database with a fully normalized schema. - Which additional tags do you add which isn't handled by standard SBS today ? - If you use Custom Scan, which additional tags do you add besides those supported by SBS ? WORK RECORDING_DESCRIPTION, a brief description of a particular recording of a WORK when the ARTIST or CONDUCTOR is not enough to distinguish one from another. FIRSTARTIST, a virtual tag, oneof (RECORDING_DESCRIPTION|ARTIST|CONDUCTOR|BAND) See also http://age.hobba.nl/audio/mirroredpages/ogg-tagging.html for a list of standard Vorbis tags. -- Daverz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daverz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
