OK, so this is in principle do-able - I think it would be a good idea to try to converge on what we want before asking Dan or anyone else to code it up.
As I see it, the request for additional functionality in web search is fairly straightforward - simply add some more fields in the "advanced search" page so we can enter as many or as few search restrictions as we like. I think there are two main topics for debate (if anyone sees others now would be the time to jump in!). (1) What tags do we want to search on (in addition to Artist/Album/Track which are givens)? I've been searching for standards and not come up with very much: http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html and http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html both discuss vorbis comments which is fine for FLAC but I'm not sure how this extends to other formats. Anyway, I guess that COMPOSER and CONDUCTOR are straightforward. I'd also like to vote for PERFORMER (not SOLOIST). And should it be ENSEMBLE or BAND or ORCHESTRA? "Ensemble" seems to be recommended by the Vorbis folks... Slimserver currently seems to read only BAND ... and I've read several references to ORCHESTRA. My vote would be for Slimserver to read all three of these but to treat them as equivalent. Note for coder: there could be multiple instances of any of these tags in one file, all should be considered equally valid. (2) The second problem is the desired UI behaviour when using the remote. I sketched one model two posts ago - Listener has decribed another slightly different one. I like mine - obviously! Has anyone else got any suggestions to throw into the pot? The only thing I'd add in either case might be a Settings option to make searching or browsing by these extra tags to be optional, otherwise we'll be cluttering the UI for people who don't want to do this. More comments from anyone? Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
