Hi Erland, some thoughts as requested. :-) 1. What kind of device would you like to use when creating the playlists ? - A computer - A tablet - A smart phone - A Logitech Controller, Radio or Touch display - A IR remote - Something else
90% of the time a computer, 10% an Ipeng controlled iphone/itouch remote - normally when entertaining/partying. 2. How do you decide what should be part of a playlist ? - By selecting the individual tracks you want to include - By selecting the albums you want to include - By selecting the artists you want to include - By automatically selecting 100 tracks that matches some search criteria (genre, ratings, ...) - Something else If it's for my personal listening I listen 95% of the time to albums - my album playlists are generated by 3 main criteria. 1/Artist 2/Genre 3/ Decades. I generally run these choices through custom browse in random mode and add albums on the fly as i feel the need. If I'm running party play lists of songs when entertaining etc. I let the guests add song selections to pre-manufactured playlists on one of my itouch remotes using Ipeng, works great! 3. How do you decide which order the tracks should have in the playlist ? - Random ordered tracks - Random ordered albums - Drag and drop albums to put them into the right order - Drag and drop tracks to put them into the right order - Something else As above 4. What's the most frustrating limitation with SBS/LMS playlist management today ? - That it doesn't support relative paths in playlist files which are scanned - That it's too hard to reorder tracks in existing playlists - That it's too hard to create completely new playlists - Something else I would definitely think, the too hard option. It is not very intuitive or easy for the average person to create or use the menu/playlists in the Squeezebox universe compared to a lot of the alternatives out there. Simplification would encourage increased use judging by feedback I hear from other people I know using SMS. Casual users of my system definitely don't get there head around it to easily. 5. What kind of device would you like to use when modifying existing playlists ? - A computer - A tablet - A smart phone - A Logitech Controller, Radio or Touch display - A IR remote - Something else 90% of the time a computer, 10% an Ipeng controlled iphone/itouch remote - normally when entertaining/partying. 6. What kind of modifications do you usually do on already existing playlists ? - Reorder tracks in the playlist - Remove tracks, albums or artists from the playlist - Add new tracks, albums or artists to the playlist - Something else I hardly ever re-order tracks. I add new albums to a currently running playlist all the time. I find the ability to introduce an album immediately into the queue after the currently playing track using "play next" a real winning feature of your Custom Browse" plug-in. 7/ Is there anything else than the above you feel is important to take into consideration if anyone would like to improve the playlist management ? For me the biggest deal breaker is the PC web interface. I can't stand the inability to search my WHOLE database in a continuous flow. The way you have to scroll and select alphanumerical blocks of albums/artists and then WAIT for your selection drives me up the wall! At least remote operation with Ipeng allows this. (The first comment I usually get from casual observers when I'm using the SB web interface on my PC is invariably along the lines of "what a clunky/ugly program!") Itunes may be chronically limited in it's flexibilty of selection regarding playlists, etc. but it kicks SBS's arse when it comes to seamless ease of use and an intuitive eco-system on the PC. Regarding your plug-ins, there is one feature I feel that would greatly add to the value of play list creation. That is the abilty to create playlists/menus using "style" id tag info. All my database has been ripped and tagged with extensive "style" tag info on music types, moods, years, nationalities, sex's, styles etc. Most of my friends databases are the same and as a lot of this info is automatically provided by dbpoweramp, foobar and numerous other tagger/rippers it seems a shame not to be able to use it EASILY with SBS. It would be good to have it as an option for playlist/menu creation in one of plug-in's ...... what do you think? Cheers ............... Bruce. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kiwibrucie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94988 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
