erland wrote: > If you want smart playlists you also need to add handling of statistic > data such as play counts, last played time and ratings to the list, > smart playlists without this is more or less useless IMHO. Often you > want to filter or limit the smart playlist to things like: > - Only include music you don't listen to very often > - Only include music you haven't listen to for a long time > - Only include music which you love (top rated tracks) > - Exclude music you hate (low rated tracks) > - Only include music you listen to often. > > Neither Sonos nor Logitech seems to understand this need, which is why I > decided to provide support for all of it through third party plugins > instead. > > It could be that smart playlists is something that would only used by a > small subset of the users and that this is the main thing that makes it > less interesting for them to include support for it, but then it's > strange that both Apple (iTunes/iPod) and Microsoft (WMP) has decided to > include it in their products because especially Apple is usually pretty > restrictive regarding including features which is only used by a few > users. Possibly it might be that both Apple and Microsoft is focused at > local music while Logitech is more focused at streaming from online > services.
That feature and your plugins are a 'Must' for me of any system, I have 'smart' playlists set on rating, genre, decades, years which are heavily used - I then use the 'top rated' tracks to convert to mp3 for usage on apple/android devices Basically Erland you are a legend :-) In terms of moving away from SB I would need that functionality there or the ability for clever people to develop plugins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97599 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
