This is a good idea. I agree that the innovations in this area have been lacking as of late. Here are my responses:
1) As with my iPod, I navigate the browse menu via genre-artist-album. This mimics the way I would browse my CD/LP collection back in the day. I use either the Controller or the SB Touch. I also use the "New Music" menu a lot to quickly get to albums I've recently added to my library. I have used Moose in the past which I find very easy to use in this situation. The only mixing I generally use is MusicIP. Occasionally I'll add a few artists and shuffle those together. 2) For new music, I use either Pandora or Slacker. Once I come upon an artist new to me, I'll consult their available catalog from Amazon and look the band up in WikiPedia. I'll read Amazon reviews on different albums. 3) I like the idea of smart playlists that could be based on listening stats. 4) Being able to find new music through the Squeezebox would be best - why introduce another piece of hardware? 5) I keep the tags basic (artist/genre/year/album/track number/track title). I also keep my genres pretty basic, for instance I do not have my jazz genre broken down into bop, hard bop, swing, fusion, etc. One day I might change that, but for now it seems like too much of a project. I like the folder structure to reflect the tag data. When I update my tags, I also update the location using a tool like Media Monkey. 6) I used to use the iTunes plugin to update and maintain stats, but it became too cumbersome once I moved to a Linux server. I find that I'll look at my stats on Last.fm occasionally to see what I've been listening to a lot lately. I'm a big fan of MusicIP and turn to it when I'm not in the mood or don't have the time to choose music but have a vague idea of what I want to listen to. I'd love to see improvement in that area, even if it means moving to another service. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 33,060 songs, 2,656 albums, 484 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
