Actually, I think the benefits could go beyond classical. * Many groups of rock pieces meant to be listened to together could well be tagged as a work: E.g., the linked songs in almost any Grateful Dead concert, Boston's Walk On Suite, etc. * Including albums as entries in Playlists is the same idea. * So is including playlists in other playlists E.g., 1. Under the Bridge (a single track) 2. My Daily Meditations (a playlist) 3. Live at Stubb's (an album) 4. China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (a non-classical "work") 5. New World Symphony (a work)
I don't think the functionality would be that hard to implement, but the UI could be a challenge. Playlists would now be trees instead of lists, so you'd need a good widget for navigating into the work/album/sub-playlist. mps wrote: > Excited about the product. Your newsletter talks about powerful > heterogeneous playlists. One thing I would like to see is to put a work > on the playlist as if it were a track. E.g., > > 1. Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man (A single track) > 2. J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations (A work with 32 variations) > 3. J.S. Bach - Lute Suite in Cm - 3. Sarabande (A single track) > > This would be much better than having to looks through 32 items on the > playlist to see what's next. Of course, the classical music would be > tagged with work info. I understand that there are some conceptual > challenges to this (E.g., Would the skip button skip you to the next > work or the next track? How would the track be shown? etc.) making a > playlist a little more like a "playtree" than a "playlist." However, few > if any streamers handle classical worth a hill of beans (I use a highly > customized SQL CustomBrowse menu in LMS that I can share to handle > browsing, so there is room for improvement on that level as well). If > one could really crack the classical nut, that would be a real > distinguisher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mps's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36351 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
