erland;175187 Wrote: > As I said in the beginning I'm both interesting in how you select which > music to play today and how you would like the selection to be done in > the future.
These are great questions, thanks for asking! Note that probably 80% of my SlimServer use is listening to tracks at work via softsqueeze, which I've done for years. We have about 18K tracks and recently bought our first Squeezebox. Here's the most common ways we use the system: 1 - Search to artist, track or album and then do a MusicIP Mix based on that thing 2 - Browse New Music to get to the latest additions to the library, then either play the new disc or do a MusicIP Mix on the new disc. We also do Browse New Music to find the latest podcasts that a separate program has downloaded to our library. 2 - Go to the Plugins -> Podcast menu to listen to a podcast directly 3 - Streaming Radio in general, whether it be the Internet Radio section, last.fm, radio.io, Radio Keneally, etc. Also our local public radio station doesn't come in very well over the antenna, so we listen to them through their stream almost exclusively now. 4 - Search to album and play the whole album. Once in a while search to artist, select whole artist and randomize it (my son does that with Weird Al in particular) 5 - Recently I installed the SQL Playlists and have played with that. The big thing I did was make a very long query to make a "spouse-safe" playlist that only played artists she liked. I would prefer to use MusicIPs Filters function, but that requires the GUI and I'm running MusicIP headless on FreeBSD. Overall I would say that we mostly use "intelligent random" mixing + some targeted listening. We have pretty much abandoned true Random listening, as our collection is too big and too broad to enjoy it that way. Once in a while I like my Slayer to fade into my Puccini, but not often. I've had a blast with SQL Playlists (I'm a Data Architect IRL), but even the "spouse-safe", artist-constrained list proved to generally be too jarring on a track-by-track basis. You did a great job with that plug-in though; it's a blast. I've stated in other forums: I used Slimserver before MusicIP, but my enjoyment of my collection truly peaks with the combination of Slimserver for delivery and MusicIP for selection. The ultimate for me will be to have MusiciP/Slimserver mix my own tracks with Rhapsody tracks. That's nirvana, imo. All the music I've bought plus a tremendous rental catalog, intelligently mixed. Just got to get MusicIP to add more of the GUI functionality (namely filters and exclusions) to the headless version. -- thing-fish [image: http://imagegen.last.fm/3line/recenttracks/thing-fish.gif] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thing-fish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5288 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
