nicolas75;671336 Wrote: > Phone apps is the plus thing when everything else is fine. > It cannot bring you real file selection and library management, or help > you getting rid of scans. > Seriously, if you haven't yet, give a try to MonkeySqueeze. > I am happy with it, but it doesn't mean everybody will. > The more people will try it, the more something could emerge. > Nothing prevent you to use LMS or MediaMonkey when you like, their are > not exclusive.
It just the multiroom and player syncing aspect . Your probably aware of that there is a similar script for foobar2000 users and two add on UI's native to a windows desktop Moose and Muso . Would not get rid of scanning thou . Some kind of "scan" is always needed most desktop software performs similar actions how else to present album covers and song details and make search work from a player . Most things i tried "imports" the music the first time I use them.. or it takes a while before list and artist appears when I choose a folder (guess what they are doing). So I'm on different page here , my grief with the dB aproch is that LMS don't really use it to it's full power, you have a nice dB that is treated as a disposable thing to throw away when the next scan fails ? And don't leverage the obvius plus side of having the LMS app "know everything" about your music it could bring great integration and music exploring features . It can't even create a smart playlist from this knowledge ? or play similar artists or find similar things on spotify or what services you have installed. Some very basic thing they never managed to explain to anyone given that you accept scanning (you don't so stop reading here ). If the software stumble on corrupt files or files with conflicting tag info et al why must the scanner crash ? . Either just guess and present something wierd in the playlist if my friends are representative they don't mind much if their pc software present some tracks out 1000's weirdly, use the file name . Some of my friends use winamp and a close look at their playslist you see song names like "track 1" etc this much better than a application crash. Even a comletely f**d up library will be played in some way all bets are of regarding enhanced functions like search or genres or years but it plays music in some way. Skip files that don't work . Put issue files in human readable list. Another scanning thing LMS does not scale well it is much faster on a powerfull pc than on my low power server, but it could be even faster on powerfull machines much faster. Then the scanning or importing or what you want to call it could be a much more transparent thing. Another thing they never managed automatic discovery of new music to work ? This was in the development for a while, that you just added files to wherever you stored them and SBS/LMS would find them by itself without user intervention . They never managed to get thier dB consistent regarding how or when you scanned or added files, hence why many users completly rescan their library on a schedule ?? -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91673 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
