In order:
- Browse by Album sorted by Artist/Year/Album. I just look around,
and see what interests me, the same as I do with my CD collection and
did with my vinyl collection before that. If I know what I'm after, I
pretty much browse directly to it.
- Search. If I _really_ know what I'm after, a search is the
quickest way to get to it. I usually search by artist or album name
and dig down from there if necessary.
- Random play. My biggest problem with random play, though, is that
you can't exclude genres. I'd like to play Jazz, for instance, but
exclude tracks also tagged Christmas. Or play Blues, but exclude
tracks also tagged Rock.
What I know I'll never use:
- Track ratings.
- Track exclusions/filtering.
- A system that decides what I want to hear from my library based
upon what I've already listened to.
The last one isn't to say that I may not use Rhapsody or something
along those lines to discover new music, but for me things like that
are more of a curiosity than anything else. The bit of experience that
I have with things like Rhapsody hasn't impressed me very much. I like
real live radio programs and knowledgeable disc jockeys for discovering
new music that I'll listen to and buy.
One of the biggest improvements to SlimServer for me would be more
flexible browsing in the web interface, with more customizable
information shown in the different browse modes and at the different
levels. For instance I want to see track lengths and composers for
tracks in the the album track listing. And additional album details
like the band/albumartist, the genre(s), the album date and the total
playing time when in that same view. More information could be
supressed from the track lines, like the artist name if it's the same
on all tracks, and of course, the album name that appears on every
line. There's a lot of potential for the web interface, but it strikes
me as being far too rigid in its presentation of data right now.
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JJZolx
Jim
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