clumsyoik Wrote: > Do you just want to display the info, or do you want to be able to > search for a specific composer? I am thinking about the menu/browse > interface right now, so now would be a good time for some input... >
I recently participated in three message threads on this forum where I described my needs for a library of over 1000 classical albums. --- three message threads ANNOUNCE: New Beginners Guide in Wiki http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 Using Composer / Conductor / Band tags effectively http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18767 Enhancement requests for Classical or complex music collections http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18946 --- I need to browse in successive steps to find the tracks I want to play. My most common pattern is to specify a composer (Beethoven), then a work (Symphony no. 3), then a conductor (Szell/Cleveland). I've got lots of Beethoven and 8-12 CDs with a performance of Symphony 3. I normally have only 1 performance by a conductor but sometimes 2 or 3. If I first browse on Composer, I then want to browse a list of works Symphony 1 through 9 (a list of 9 items.) If I browse on Album name and I've made that album name unique, I've got a list of about 100 albums to browse with names like "Beethoven - Symphony 1 - Karajan". That doesn't work well on a GUI interface and it does not work at all on the 2 line Squeezebox display. Sometimes I'd like to browse in a different order. Maybe Arttist first and then composer. The threads I listed above discuss the problem and some ideas for solutions in terms of the Squeezebox display and the web interfce. I think things could be done much better with a real GUI interface. iTunes allows you to customize the columns it displays in the main track listing. The 3 browser windows at the top seem like a good solution to me but I can't add a window pane for browsing Composer. In an earlier message, you mentioned the current Slimserver database. As I mentioned in a message in one of the threads listed above, I think you could collect all the ID3v2 and VorbisComment tags in the music files and put them in one simple table with fields like (primary key, reference to track table, tag name, and tag value). The only processing needed before storing the tag information would be to replace short codes like "TCOM" with a full name like "Composer". Browsing and searching could use all tags in a first class way with simple regular Select statements. And it would be straightforward to let the user choose which tags to display in the track listing and the browser windows. clumsyoik Wrote: > It currently uses the VORBISCOMMENT fields from the FLAC header; if > this is what you mean, then it already works. That's what I meant. Thanks. ---- I think that having a modern GUI interface would make the Squeezebox more useful for me and more attractive to a wider market of customers who just want to play music. I hope your project succeeds. Perhaps I could help in some way. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19213 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
