Phil Meyer;132988 Wrote: > Tou could have a separate library for each player with little > redundancy, as each library could contain links to the actual folders > where the music is stored, rather than duplicating the music. > > I can't see that there would be much demand for your checkbox filtering > of a whole library... > > Would the functionality also extend to saved playlists?... > > That's a lot of maintenance too. Every time you add a new player, > you'd have to go through the whole library deciding what music should > be allowed to play on it...
True, doing it with links would cut out on the redundancy but it would create a big hassle. Someone could literally have to create thousands of links. I don't know what kind of demand there would be for this type of functionality. Most people probably want most of their players to have access to their entire collection so demand very well might be low. I would guess it would mostly be used in situations where you wanted parental control, in households where musical tastes varied widely (i.e. Dad could care less about his Squeezebox having kid's Britney Spears and kid doesn't want Dad's Frank Sinatra, etc.), or if you had a Squeezebox in a location where you wanted a limited library. That said, I'm the first to admit that the suggestion is a selfish one. ;) I really hadn't thought about plug-in support. Since plug-ins are optional if you made heavy use of filtering then I guess you'd need to take that into consideration when you decide which plug-ins you want to use. I would like the functionality to extend to saved playlists but not on the individual song level in a playlist. In other words, I would like the ability to dictate which players see which playlists. If such funtionality existed my guess is that it could be extended to any of the tags to which you have browse or search capabilities. Therefore, if you uncheck Pink Floyd all Pink Floyd albums become unchecked automatically for that player, if you only uncheck a particular album then all the tracks associated with that album become unchecked or you could just uncheck particular songs. I've seen database filters that funtion similarly to this. I just don't know if that's something that can be extended to the Squeezebox. In my fantasy world there would be some sort of setting where you told it when you added a player to either give that player the ability to start by seeing everything, nothing or copy the filter from another player. That would give you a starting point then you could go in and start checking/unchecking boxes ot customize the new player. Yes, it could be a hassle but it sure beats having to do it by creating a whole new library with a bunch of links. Not to mention that you just take the time to do it once and it's done. I don't think most people add new players on a very frequent basis. -- jtfields ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jtfields's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
