> What on earth does the following mean ? > "Albums that contain songs that are tagged with a band may be > listed under that band name or with the other artists for that > album. The band tag is also known as TPE2 and may appear as the > "album artist" in some software."
are you asking a serious question here :) ? I think it's actually rather self-explanatory if you read it slowly. But I get your point, there are some rather bizarre feature descriptions in the software. And yet, what other software even discusses a band tag? Isn't that the kind of thing many of us love Slimserver for? > An easy measure of usabilty :- If you gave a squeezebox to your > granny for Christmas would she use it to play music or as a door > stop ? Not really a good measure of usability, if you ask me. I really don't think the granny market is going to be a booming market for networked media player devices no matter how easy they are to use. And my granny would use any number of things as a doorstop. She would certainly relegate a computer to doorstop duty yet there are millions of homes with computers. I don't mean to nitpick because I know and am sympathetic to what you're trying to say, but I don't really think that granny-acceptance is the level of usability the squeezebox is shooting for. I really think the squeezebox is shooting to fill a more sophisticated need than your standard Ipod or other consumer-level equipment. It's a "prosumer" piece of home audio gear, if you will. Sure, this means that not everyone will have one, but that's the way it is for a lot of things out there. I'm all for improving the interface as improvements can be made (no point in making things arbitrarily difficult or obscure) but at the same time it's the power and the flexibility of the device that makes it distinct and appealing. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
