Hi Erland, here my opinion ...
We are 4 people 2 adults, 2 kids (9 & 11 y). There are 2 players for the home stereo and me and the kids have separate players. All media is stored on a central server. Individual favourites would be nice but is not that important. Individual playlists can easily be achieved by individually prefixed names, if that is necessary at all - I know my playlists and those from the kids very well. But what I think is absolutely necessary is to be able to separate the music into subsets. The reason for this is not to be able to restrict content, it is just a matter of comfort. There are hundreds of classic albums, hundreds of kids stuff (tales, kid songs), a bunch of audio books and christmas music. Everyone should be able to play all sorts of media, but I simply don't want to browse through all this, when I'm heading for the music I want to listen to. Another point is that although I have ~ 1500 albums, I mostly listen to, say, 100 regularly. The rest is stuff I just own and included to complete my collection. I compiled my favourite tracks of all these "cold" albums into a set of playlists, to not loose track completely. Right now I'm doing the content separation through your plugins (remember me? I "enhanced" custom browse to display different icons) and also played around with separate servers based on virtual box. As my subsets are not user but content (kind of genre) dependent (and hence static), I split my media folder into the mentioned branches, and point custom browse or the other vb server instances to separate root folders. The only problem I face is with the favourite albums; I don't have "Favourites" folder beneath the "Contemporary Music", because than I would end up having several artists at multiple places. So, this problem isn't solved yet. My favourite system would be to have one basic set, which includes all content by default. So when a new cd is ripped and LMS scanned, this cd should show up there without any further efforts. Then subsets should be definable - based (at least) on folder black/white-lists. Artist, genre, tempo, or whatever could be valid criteria as well - but i personally wouldn't care. Switching between these subsets should feel like switching between servers today as far as "My Music" is concerned. The favourites and playlists could be the same - I don't care to see my R&B playlist when I'm on the classic subset. Allthough my kids are very curious and like to play music they heard when I'm on control - they and my wife are quite unhappy with the huge amount of media. They don't like to scroll forever. So, If my kids could define her set (maybe server based through me - not necessarily through the controller) with Harry Potter and Madonna, and I had a way to hide 90% of my collection easily, that would be perfect. Just like virtual shelfs, where you can ad and remove cds, artist, ... Than it is up to the user to define the shelfs - maybe "classic" and "jazz" or "peter" and "paul" - or all of them. Best regards Guenther ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cadfish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98199 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
