Phil Meyer;132927 Wrote: > >> I would like a way to customize your library by player. I have a > SLIMP3 > >> in my son's room and a Squeezebox in the living room. There are > certain > >> tracks I don't want available to my son. > >> > >Interesting idea... as a variation on the theme, why not arrange for > >this data to be stored in some tag or other in the music files? > > 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. > Dads persona could include Dads music folder and shared. > Son's persona could include Son's music folder and shared. > > Son's Squeezebox could be configured to use Son's persona, so would use > Son's music library. > Living room Squeezebox could be configured to use Dad's persona. > > Optionally, perhaps a persona could be configured with a password to > restrict access. > Optionally, perhaps restrict persona's to specific players. > > I think this kind of support is so versatile, it could fit in with many > different user requirements. > > Phil
In our house the issue is not so much personas, as the different kinds of music we play depending on who is around - since we have varying tastes. My 23 year old daughter and I have very similar tastes which are very broad and eclectic - which we meet with two playlists, one with lots of jazz on it, the other without (but all the rock, soul, R&B, alt-folk, and such still there). Then when my wife is around, we switch to a much more limited playlist without anything she finds "raucous" (about 50% of what I like!). And then there are the classical, dinner-music, music-to-study-by, and Broadway musical playlists (which we generally play shuffled by album instead of song). The problem: each time we switch between these various lists, SlimServer "forgets" where it was before, when we later come back to the same list. So it would be great to have a "Remember state" option to turn on for each list, so that when you switch away to a different list, it would automatically save that list in its current exact state - shuffle order, what's already been played, etc. - so when you switch back to it later (when my wife leaves!) you're back where you were before. That would mean you wouldn't have to listen to the same song again the same day just because you switched out of the list and back in again, which today causes a full reshuffle and loss of state. It's not that I mind hearing certain things twice - a little Miles is nice - but to hear Carpenters' "Only Yesterday" more than once in a week is a tad much to take... -- MikeGilpin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MikeGilpin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26874 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
