1. How do you find music in your own library ? - I buy/acquire new music quite often and thus use "New Music" as the most common entry. Sometimes this leads me to want to listen to other albums by the same artist for which I either drill down the menus with the remote or use iPeng.
- Otherwise I often go for a specific artist or genre via the remote or iPeng. At times I use the browse mode as a sort of random function picking a letter and flicking through the artists that hit. - All music are tagged before it enters the DB and I'm especially picky about genres where I've defined a set of genres that I use. - I never search for music and very seldom browse for albums/tracks; mainly artists and genres. - I also use custom-made Dynamic Playlists when I'm in the mood to hear certain types of music (selection of genres), specific years or specific ratings. The reason for using Dynamic Playlists is that I have a number of filters for all of my playlists (above a certain rating, specific time limits, etc.). - I never do manual playlists as I mainly listens to full albums (or use Dynamic Playlists). - I do tag all my music, including album art, but have never used album art to select music. Possibly because I mainly use IR remote and iPeng to control SBS. I do not think I would ever use a cover flow functionality myself, but could see the point if guests were to flick through my collection. 2. How do you usually find new music you like to get but currently don't have in your library ? - I subscribe to a few music magazines (Gaffa, Soundvenue) and use their corresponding web sites as well. Then I have a number of web sites that I browse regurlarly (Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, Metacritic, etc.) and then I subscribe to a few newsletters from music stores (Boomkat, Bleep) and lastly I subscribe to eMusic. Some music I buy because it's a certain artist, most because it was somehow recommended by one of my 'trusted advisors' and some because of random browsing looking for "similar artists" or similar. - Whenever I come across something interesting I usually post a note to my Evernote account. Approx. once a month I review the notes and decide which to get from eMusic, buy from a store, etc. As part of the review process I sometimes 'screen' the music on my laptop, either to prioritize or to see if I like the music at all. - I only buy albums or ep's, never single tracks and rarely buy albums because I've heard a track on the radio or seen it on the charts. 3. How would you like to be able to find music in your own library in the future ? 4. How would you like to find new music you like to buy/get in the future ? - Basically I'm quite happy with the current options when it comes to finding specific artists, albums, etc. - Even though my music collection is not as big as some of the other contributors to this thread (1250 albums; 15000 tracks) there is still a lot of music 'hiding' in there that I never get to hear. I would like to be able to find "similar artists" and select music suited to a certain 'moods' - and I do not want it to be based on myself doing a lot of tagging. - If possible it would be cool if such a playlist could incorporate both my own music and tracks I do not own, e.g. provided via some of the internet services. It should be optional whether I just wanted my own music, a mix or solely new music on the playlist. - When it comes to buying new music a nice feature might be an ability to 'flag' interesting stuff (to my Evernote account ...), although my own listening habits are probably not suited for this as I do not necessarily have a remote, iPhone or computer next to me when listening. I can't imagine I would ever want to buy music via SB. I would prefer it as a separate process. 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 ? - All music about to enter the DB is tagged/checked with mp3tag. I always modify the genre tag and check the other (standard) tags; I never add tags of my own. In my mind tagging is essential to managing your music collection. Likewise my folder structure is also very structured, possibly because I'm a bit old-school, but also because it would otherwise be hell to tag/re-tag with a tool like mp3tag. - I rate all my music manually and thus consider TrackStat my most crucial plugin. I use ratings as filter in my Dynamic Playlists and just likes the process of 'rating' my music. 6. Do you synchronize the data in SBS with some other application to make it easier to find interesting music ? - I only 'synchronize' with last.fm and this only to have the total count and the charts. I don't use any of the other features on last.fm currently. I used to use the feature of playing last.fm stations on SB, but found the qualiy dismal at times and preferred to find new music via other sources. -- mschr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mschr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5315 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
