erland wrote: > > 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 currently mostly use the computer. If playlist generation was simple, I suppose I would use any other interface, such as tablet, smart phone, Controller. After using phone/tablet, using the IR remote seems cumbersome at best. erland wrote: > > 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 > I would want to easily use all of these methods. There are scenarios where you want to handpick individual tracks. There are other scenarios where I want to include an artist's whole output (for example, to create a playlist of Neil Young, the Stones, the Band, and others, but not the Dead, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc., all of which are tagged with GENRE=Classic Rock.) erland wrote: > > 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 usually play playlists in random order (either by track or by album, although mostly by track), but can imagine occasions where I might want to preserve the order. Drag and Dropping to establish order is fine. erland wrote: > > 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 > Creating playlists using LMS just doesn't seem to be something it's designed to do -- in fact, haven't I read in early threads developers say that playlist management should be done outside LMS? Currently the most obvious wishlist feature is an easy-to-use "smart" list tool and an easy-to-use MusicIP/Pandora style playlist generator. erland wrote: > > 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 > As above, computer, tablet, smart phone, Controller. For modifying the currently playing playlist, it sure would be nice to be able to do it easily from phone/tablet/controller, whichever you are using to play/control the music. erland wrote: > > 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 > Don't currently do much of any, but if easy, all of the above would be important. erland wrote: > > Is there anything else than the above you feel is important to take into > consideration if anyone would like to improve the playlist management ? As I wrote above, the biggest advance would be easy-to-use "smart" lists. this could be something as simple as iOS-style drop-down boxes with allowed fields. I'd love to see something like the script language J.River Media uses for its smart lists. Although it requires some sense of command line coding (and so probably violates "easy-to-use") it allows you to some powerful stuff. I particularly like that you can generate playlists that have a certain percentage of songs satisfying a certain criterion. For example, you can make a playlist that is 50% rock Genre, 20% Blues Genre, 10% Reggae Genre, and 20% Classic Rock Genre. It also allows you to easily filter the generated playlists to remove duplicate songs, specify how many times a particular artist or album shows up, etc. Another suggestion, which probably isn't really about playlists, but is about playing playlists "randomly". I actually don't want a truly random play, because I would rather not have the same artist played back-to-back. I know one of Erland's plug-ins allows to alter "random" so that the same artist isn't played until n songs have passed. That's a nice feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94988 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
