------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29368 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: What do playlists mean to you? - Never or very rarely use them - Not a big problem: use static playlists for parties or similar, current features ok - Use static playlists a lot, would like to see better features for managing them - Want smart or dynamic playlists. iTunes integration and/or plugins usable (but could be better!). - Smart or dynamic playlists are very important, current options not good enough, must be improved - Critical: Playlist handling must be improved or I'm out of here ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ceejay;152458 Wrote: > (1) Never or very rarely use them > (2) Not a big problem: use static playlists for parties or similar, > current features ok > (3) Use static playlists a lot, would like to see better features for > managing them > (4) Want to use smart or dynamic playlists, not just static ones. > Current iTunes integration and/or plugins are usable for me (though > could be better!). > (5) Smart or dynamic playlists are very important, the current options > are not good enough, really want to see this improved > (6) Critical: if playlist handling in slimserver isn't improved I'm out > of here > I'm in category 4. I don't have a single static playlist so better managing of static playlists wouldn't mean anything to me. However, smart playlists are critical. I think Yannzola put it down quite well, its a matter of interacting with my music. The system should be able to suggest or give me ideas what I want to listen to. Some examples: - Ignore tracks I don't like - Listen to "oldies" that I haven't listen to for a while - Listen to my newly purchased music - Listen to my top rated music Also, smart playlists will in my opinion not work as long as slimserver continues to delete all statistics during every rescan. This is especially true when a full rescan is one of the first suggestion to solutions to many problems. Rating support is also critical for smart playlists to work good. Anyway, there are third party plugins available that makes it work good enough for me today, but I think a more user friendly solution where smart playlists was included in the slimserver core would make the functionallity available to more users. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (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),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29368 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
