------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Whats your highest priority ? - More images of your music collection - Playlist management - Syncing Players Variation A - Syncing Players Variation B - MySqueezebox.com Integration - TrackStat Ratings - Caching of Album + Artist Lists - Album Art Only Screen - Better Search - Something else - Please do the poll with different options ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I think the development is on a good development roadmap! But I still have some questions! I dont have a squeezebox (yet) but wonder how the squeezepad handles very large amount of music (like i have about 3500 CD albums thas over 50.000 mp3 files on my NAS.) 1 - The Caching of Album & Artist Lists is for me the most important feature due to the effect on very large CD Album collections Having the index (or database) local on the ipad increase startup time very much - a super feature! I Hate iTunes behaviour of reading all music index from the NAS at startup! 2 - I would like to see improvement of the searching feature Because the current a-z search naviigation is very limited. Implement a editable search bar which i can use for searching on Album Artist & Album Title & (optional)Track Title. 3 - I like the visible Album cover also in itunes/windows media player does with a matrix. In all the screendumps of squeexepad i don't see this. This make visible searching for a certain album easier. 4 - Album sorting order. But like to have sorting on multiple mp3 idv3 tags Like example a) Album Artist + Album Title + Year (descending) + Barcode b) Year (or decade) (ascending) + Album Artist + Album Title + Barcode 5 - The near-duplicate problem. Most music software can't handle the following Two albums (Just a fictive example) Album Artist: Me Album Title: Do Re Mi Year: 2010 Format: Studio Recording Media: CD Album Artist: Me Album Title: Do Re Mi Year: 2010 Format: Studio Recording Media: 2xCD Limited Edition A very simple solution is to extend the Album Title with the text "Limited edition" but officially it is not part of the album title but is a release format issue of the cd album. The same problem occure with album that only differ in recording type Album Artist: Me Album Title: Do Re Mi Year: 2010 Recording: Studio Album Artist: Me Album Title: Do Re Mi Year: 2010 Recording: Live (or soundboard) Often music software merge both albums into one CD during the mp3 directory scan because they match only on Album Artist + Album Title. And yes it also is a shortcomming of the ID3 standard That not all information about music can be stored by TAG in the music file. Like RecordingType[Studio/Live/Bootleg/Soundboard/interview]" or Choice [Band/Man/Woman] or MediaType[Vinyl 7"single/vinyl 12"single/vinyl LP,CDS/CD EP or CD Maxi/CD/DCC/TAPE 60min TAPE 90min Tape 120min. or Tape Reel], Recording studio. Stuff like that.... The most important tags for me shall be RecordingType & mediatype TagS I really like to search for example All CDS from katebush in the decade 1980-1990 .or. All StudioAlbum where genre is reggae in decade 1970 - 1980 All interviews of Woman artists Theese are examples of how i like to search my very large music collections. 6 - If you think about a local database on the iPad with you feature: Caching of Album & Artist Lists. The think about implementing a (temporary)view for the GUI of this database table that the user can modify for searching a certain CD album. I mean have a look at the adobe lightroom. Instead of foto's think of music! This program show the power of using tags in the foto and the full strength of a database. I can search on every tag of a images (exif tags) Searhing on tags is SUPER in lightroom What i like the most about lightroom is that i start with all photo's and can step-by-step drill-down to a very small group i like to see! Like: All -> foto's of 1990-januari -> foto's with F1.4 lens -> photo's with rating 5 This show really the power of the database interacting with the db/table view of the GUI Please try to implement this database & music tag IDv3 integration (like lightroom) into you're app and you have a killer app that makes you rich! 7 - Try to search on every MP3 tag possible 8 - People who likes classic music often think about composers or conductor instead of Artist. Please see it from theire point of view with this ap. and you have them as customer as well! 9 - Have a look at AlbumPlayer.com and collectorz.com for good music software for the PC/computer. Have a look but please don't wheep :( because YOU do control the audio stream to the squeezebox and they DO NOT :-) 10 - You have a greate product the combination of iPad (i Have) and logitech squeezebox (i donot have-yet) really got my attention! Keep up this good work. Kind regards, Hugo I'm a big high-end audio fan for over 20 years and I love the concept of streaming audio. I also love the iPad (it's not a pc replamcement it's more!) -- HugoW ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HugoW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41327 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80575 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
