Your ideas are all great, keep more comming. 
Some comments regarding some of the already posted ideas:

BERNT
- Your idea to sort albums by year when an artist already has been
selected in the parent menu seems logical, I will change this.

GUSI
- Searching is out of scope for the Custom Browse plugin at the
moment.

DR LOVEGROVE
- Releated information is currently not in the slimserver database
which also makes your idea out of the scope at the moment, a great idea
though if the relation information could be retreived from some web
site.

MARC SHERMAN
- Defining menus for different genre combinations should definitely be
possible with Custom Browse. I will just have to think about it a bit
to see if there is a way to make the menus easy to configure. Today you
will have to hard code the genre names in the *.cb.xml files which makes
it a bit hard. It might be possible to have some sort of template based
solution similar to what I have in the SQLPlayList plugin.

RADISH
- Your albums menu with separated compilations and artist albums should
be quite simple, I'll try to include it in next release.

JJZOLX
- The Years menu sorted in descending order seems logical.
- Regarding the Albums within the Years menu that is sorted by artist,
its definitely possible. I'm not sure however that I want to make this
the default though, it seems logical in one way but I think I would
like it to display both the album and artist if this should be the
default. I think I have to experiment a litte with it to see how it
looks like.
- The Genres menu as I see it is just a more shallow menu since the
artist is not a menu level instead the albums are sorted by artist. I
think this could be included as a sample.
- Regarding the editing of XML files I have been thinking about a web
UI, but haven't found a good solution that makes it both easy to use
and not so hard to develop. At the moment I am thinking that it might
be a good idea to be able to generate the xml files base on a number of
selections and then edit them manually, similar to the way SQLPlayList
works.
- Adding the menus to the Home is probably possible, I will add this to
the wishlist.
- Someone else has to take the decision if this should be a core part
of slimserver or not, at the moment I think its best as a plugin since
it isn't very user friendly and the code inside is quite different from
the code in the standard slimserver.


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erland

Erland Isaksson
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(Developer of 'TrackStat'
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(http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist)
, 'DynamicPlayList'
(http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist),
'Custom Browse'
(http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse)
and 'RandomPlayList'
(http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist)
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