In my mind (and a simple one it may be) a key element of SlimServer usability for new or unexperienced users is tagging. Specifically, allowing it to happen and making it reasonably simple.
Products like Musicmatch Jukebox, iTunes and SlimServer all allow users to view digitial music, which for most new users brings them quickly to a point where they realise they'll need to expend time and effort tagging and re-tagging their music files if this new view is to make any sense whatsoever. The key difference between the 3 products I mentioned is that 2 have tagging built in and one doesn't, they even look up the information you need remotely when you insert the CD or ask them to do so. Whilst it is OK for a certain group of users to say 'go and get a 3rd party tagging tool', it certainly isn't for some, or even most. Such a statement will raise questions like "where?", "how?" and "how much is it?". Personally I couldn't live without my Squeezeboxes, and I use all 3 products for different reasons. Musicmatch is my chosen environment for tagging (over iTunes), probably because I've used it for longer. -- jhurley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jhurley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=405 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18651 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
