We've never needed separate libraries, and I hadn't really thought about it because I like having access to everything. But after reading some of the previous comments, I do have to agree that it might be nice to have the option of making a subset of the whole library available for the wife or guests to browse. I have tons of jazz and classical albums that she never puts on, so being able to give her a smaller set to choose from might be nice. In our case, it could just be as simple as allowing a top-level selection (or deselection) of certain multiple genres, before going into the artist/album level. I know you can brows by genre now, but it's one genre at a time. Being able to start at the top and just select or eliminate a group of multiple genres, and then browse, would be useful.
The master library is stored centrally, and is always up and available. Keeping track of playlists and favorites is something that we haven't had a problem with in the past, because there were never more than 50 or so of each. But now the number of playlists and favorites is growing, so a means of organizing them (into folders by genre/person/whatever) is something I'm thinking about. I know there are already some plugins out there that might be useful in this regard, but I haven't yet looked into them. I think a simple hierarchical organization for grouping playlists and favorites would be sufficient, just something to keep them all from being jumbled together and having to sift through a long list all at once. We don't need access restrictions, either to specific players or to specific tracks. These days, control is commonly via smartphones (Android), but still sometimes on the players themselves (Touches, Radios and Booms), and the Duet Controllers do still get used from time to time. The IR remotes pretty much never get used. Right now, playing of local music is working very well for our needs. Apart from the increasing pressure to add some kind of organization to the growing number of playlists and favorites (which might be taken care of using existing plugins), we haven't been really yearning for any new functionality. We're pretty vanilla with the system; I haven't even experimented much with the plugins that are out there, because there hasn't seemed to be much need to. One thing I do like is having tracks scrobbled to lastFM; my understanding is that when mysb.com get shut down that will stop. If scrobbling could continue to work, that would be nice. It isn't a critical function, but it is a nicety. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98199 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
