hi erland - thats a lot of questions in one go! But what the heck, lets try...
The first thing I'd say is that it's really important for me to be able to choose music in any of several different ways. 1 - most often, I browse by artist, or sometimes by genre then artist (I have multiple genre values on my music) for an album and play the album as intended. Sometimes, to pick an artist, I press one of the number buttons to be taken to a random place in the list (so I'm not always starting at A) and scroll from here till I find something I like. 2 - slightly less often, I think "I want to listen to X" and then use either search or browse to find it (LazySearch works well if I'm not absolutely sure of the details, otherwise I just browse to it). 3 - occasionally I want the system to choose for me in which case I usually use LastFM. Occasionally I might use a randomplay list from a genre. In these cases I'm listening to tracks rather than albums. This is quite rare for me. 4 - I have almost no use for static or dynamic playlists. I do have an "audition" playlist which is my preferred reference list of music to listen to when I'm checking out a change to my stereo, but that's it. As Michael said, Search mostly gets used for answering questions (have we got this track? how many versions of it? who sang that song?). Some but not all of the music I listen to is classical: in this case options 1 and 2 work but not very well due to SS's limitations in dealing with classical music, and 3 is irrelevant. For nonclassical, what would improve my listening would be something that made option 1 more effective at leading me to places I might be missing. I suppose a list of the albums that haven't been played recently would be a start (I know I could do that with your plugins!) but it would be a pain if you got the same list every time, because there is probably a good reason why those albums haven't been played! Filtering this list by Genre would be good. Maybe what I want is "give me a list of 20 albums from this genre which haven't been played recently and which weren't on the list offered last time I asked this question"! Just my 2p worth.... Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
