Phil Meyer;132927 Wrote: 
> A better solution would be to use multiple music libraries/personas.
> 
> Eg. you could have libraries/personas called "Dads" and "Son's".
> You could have 3 music folders - Dad's, Son's and Shared.

I can see where the support for multiple libraries and "personas" could
be used to acheive my goal, however, I don't really see that as a better
solution.  That would require me to change the way I organize my music
(which is used for more than just the my Squeezeboxes.)  Also, your
method becomes somewhat difficult for someone with a lot of players
because one shared folder probably wouldn't do.

For example, say you have three players and song A is shared by players
1 and 2 but not 3, however, song B is shared by players 2 and 3 but not
1.  And, of course, there's song C shared by players 1 and 3 but not 2.
A single "shared" folder would not do.  Toss in more players and really
big libraries and it could start to get really complex.  The only way to
manage that with folders would be to start having a separate library for
each player which would end up with a lot of redundancy and use a lot of
disk space (not to mention making adding music a little more
cumbersome.)

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of SlimServer supporting multiple
libraries and being able to control which players see which libraries. 
However, my personal preference is to also be able to filter at the
album, track and playlist level for each player.  In other words, I
want to be able to look at a track and say "I want player 1 and 2 to
see it but not player 3.

A nice GUI for this would be my "check box" idea.


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