erland;566383 Wrote: > > 1. > How do you find music in your own library ? > - Which way to you browse/search ? (which browse or search menus)
Don't do this often but its 50/50 browse via artist then album then track or search via track title > > - Which type of remote/interface do you use ? Different for different > situations ? > Usually use old-fashioned remote and web interface when I listening & working on laptop at the same time (web interface is nicer to use) > > - Do you find music through statistics based browse menus ? (ratings, > play counts, history) > No > > - Do you find music through smart playlists based on statistics or > random selection or other kind of automatic mixes ? > VERY much so. More or less all my music listening is via a custom sql playlist I've created which plays songs so that it prioritises unrated, higher-rated and least-played songs. I manually rated songs as each played over a long time. I find this an excellent "one-button" to make sure you mostly listen to your favourite music and newer music but also allows you to occasionally hear everything. This is the "killer app" for me. > > - Do you use album art when selecting what to play ? > No > > - Do you typically start searching/browsing from an artist, album or > track and want to find something related to that ? > No 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 ? > Definitely - specialist shows > > - Where do you start when searching ? Top charts ? Genres ? Similar > artists ? > don't usually search for new music like this - but the odd time via similar artists: album/bio info would mention similar - recommended - artists > > - Do you use some web site when searching or do you browse some music > store directly ? > emusic.com, itunes > > - Are you using the computer, your Squeezebox or some other device when > searching for new music ? > computer only > > - Do you preview the music before puchasing ? Do you preview it on the > real system or cheep laptop speakers or something similar ? > I do - just on laptop/desktop speakers > > - 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 ? > don't use any subscription service - not in that sense anyway. Subscribe to emusic so I buy albums I want from that. Otherwise buy from itunes. If neither of those have it, I buy the CD from play.com or somewhere & rip it. > > - Through reviews ? Any specific online site ? > - Through friends ? Some community site ? > answered above more or less > > 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'd like the custom sql playlist I mentioned above to be automatically supported: a dynamic playlist can be generated by setting a few sliders (for rating, play count and time since last played) for how important each of these characteristics are when selecting which tracks to play > > 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 ? > I'm not really concerned about making it that easy to link SB to searching for new music - what I would really like is if buying & adding new music to your library was easier. Right now there's lots of steps: download/rip, convert to desired format, tag, rate, etc. Ideally a buy-and-add single step would be available. (Maybe a global configuration that says what target format you want your library in & where tags should come from) > > 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 ? > auto-tag from web using MediaMonkey no non-standard tags folder structure is important: artist/album manual rating is v. important so I can listen more often to music that I consider to be good > > 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 do any of this. Thanks, Brian. -- briank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ briank's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1249 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
