Let me start off by saying I agree with everything Pat suggested. Now, at the risk of repeating myself...
erland;566383 Wrote: > 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 ? I browse by artist, genre or style/ mood metadata implemented via your plugins. If I've a web browser in front of me (rarely) I'll sort albums by artist and browse the library by cover. Right clicking and opening a new window whilst hovering over the 0-Z navigation guides enables me to open a full web page filled with album covers and take further browsing from there. Mostly use iPeng, rarely use use IR remote (only if SBS won't behave & connect, and very, very rarely do I make use of the web interface. Don't use stat based browse windows Album art is a definite preferred means of browsing through a catalogue. I imagine this would be even more so with something like an iPad I'd love to be able to see related artists and albums in browsing if it were easily available, it would likely influence what I listen to (but limited to what's in my collection). Personally I've no interest in playing stuff off the net - that I can do when sitting in front of my pc if I'm curious about an artist. erland;566383 Wrote: > 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 ? Radio and friends' recommendations. If I were to search it would be based on simiar artists. I often make refeence to allmusic.com. Searching is always via computer, sometimes my iphone. No interest whatsoever in searching for new music via my Squeezeboxen. Previews (rare) are always via computer or listening to something on the radio or at a friend's. No interest whatsoever in a subscription service - I have an extensive library and MusicIP/ Spicefly for that. Will often check a review, predominantly on allmusic.com, but only when I've become aware of a release and want to get some insights. Amazon's reviews are generally not helpful because they're mostly writtn by fans of the artist/ album in question. erland;566383 Wrote: > 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 ? I want to be able to browse by artist, similar artist, genre, mood, style, theme and perhaps even user defined keywords. I generally only use search capability if I'm looking for a specific song and I don't recall what album it's on or which version is on what album. erland;566383 Wrote: > 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 ? No interest in finding music via my listening device ie SBS/ Squeezeboxen. Still prefer to buy & rip CD's. Ditigal music storage remains problematic from a backup perspective because of the volumes involved. Clound storage and high bandwidth may change that but its another discussion altogether. Until then, CDs rule the roost for me. Would like ot be able to explore every nook and cranny of my music collection based on a proper database that has persistence. Take allmusic.com and localise it for my personal collection and you get the idea of what I'l love to be able to do in terms of navigating by remote. Other hardware is irrelevant to me. There's storage, a server and a playback device. Network attached storage and the playback device already fulfil their roles well. SBS doesn't. erland;566383 Wrote: > 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 ? I add genre, mood, style & theme metadata. All my albums are processed through a standardised tagging workflow which means all foldernames represent 'artist - title' and all tracks identify track, artist album & title Add: compilation=1 for all VA/ OST albums and compilation=0 for others albumartist genre style mood theme rating style, mood, theme, rating tyically have multiple entries associated with a tag. Folder structure is important so I can find things easily and can minimise directory changes when browsing via a file manager style, mood & theme are added for customscan don't manually add ratings, but use allmusic's ratings erland;566383 Wrote: > 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 ? Don't synchronise with any other apps. If I had the time I'd consider writing a completely standalone front-end that managed the UI/ music / user experience and simply used SBS as a means of intiating and controlling playback. -- audiomuze '*puddletag: A tag editor for Linux (that happens to run on OS X)*' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
