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
I own a Radio, Touch, Boom and use SqueezePlay, I also have an Android controller app on a 7-inch tablet. I've not found any of these conducive to creating long playlists from a large music selection. In fact, I find the differences in UI between the touch, boom and radio, when you can/can't get to the playlist etc difficult to use playlists at all, and so I have not. Also, since I moved music from a PC to a RAID array at the sametime I seriously started using the LMS, all my old playlists were rendered useless as they had PC based absolute file locations ie C: and D: etc. - Yes I know I could have edited them, but I also reorganized my folder structure when moving. So, I find my way here because I want to start creating playlists again that are based on a collection of tracks from different genres, bpm etc. I have 3x laptops, the main one used for music has a Dell Inspiron 17inch touch screen and is actually my media center, however, it is Windows 7 based and as of today wouldn't be that useful, even though it does support touch screen, it would be difficult to rapidly assemble a playlist from folders etc. So, I guess my current choice would be traditional Windows 7 laptop with a mouse. 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 Probably individual tracks, buy having tracks presented based on type/genre might be useful, BPM or somesuch would be more useful than human tagging. I'd then edit, re-organize and save. 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 I'd like to drag and drop, then maybe randomize and finally move into a specific order. ie to start the playlist I'd like to just drag and drop them into a playlist, so if I picked 3 tracks from a single album that would be one drag and drop; then if I wanted to split up the 3x tracks and mix them amongst all the others in the playlist, randomize; finally I'd want to tweak the playlist by dragging and dropping within the playlist. 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 All the above. I regularly find myself trying to create a playlist on the radio, getting 4-5 tracks into it and then managing to delete/overwrite it somehow. 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 I'd like to be able to tweak the playlist using either a Logitech player or a laptop. 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 think mostly remove tracks. When I've put 30/50/100 tracks in a playlist I'm not 100% sure of all the tracks, so I play the playlist and then would like to remove the tracks I don't like. Is there anything else than the above you feel is important to take into consideration if anyone would like to improve the playlist management ? I must admit, if the LMS server UI had somelike the dropbox web ui where I could drag from Windows folders onto the UI, one or more than one track and then reorder, randomize and save using the LMS server UI, that would be great. One thing that I'd really, really, really like is top take a playlist on the LMS Server, and be able to export the playlist and tracks to an SD card, harddrive etc. and have the playlist work because it uses relative pathnames. In my case I have some 6,500 MP3 files, my media PC has an SD card slot and USB drives, my car audio system also has an SD card slot, and a USB hard drive port, I'd love to be able to export a playlist and the tracks, and just plug-into the car and play... Much of my music is acquired using the laptop I'm on now. It goes pretty much everywhere with me, so for example, I just bought an MP3 album from amazon. I'd like to be able to copy that folder over to my home music collection with a playlist that starts in album order and can have tracks re-ordered, or removed as needed on the laptop and later on via the LMS. Those are my first thoughts... oh yes, I'd definately pay upto $50 for software that did this... depending on how much of it it did. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathcam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43414 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94988 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
