CardinalFang;175657 Wrote: > You could do something similar using a web tablet and an interface a bit > like the iTunes 3D cover art browsing modes. You can spot albums by art > far faster when scanning and it also really does prompt listening to > old albums far more than reading a list. I much prefer to pick music > this way and I wish you could do it in Slim. >
I also find it easier to browse music by cover art -- it more closely matches what I do with my real collection. I don't always know exactly what artist or album I want to listen to, just a general idea of genre/type. (Also, I have a terrible time remembering names -- so searching, or even browsing line-by-line doesn't work well for me.) So almost from the start I knew that the solution for me was going to require a handheld device with a screen for controling the slimbox, and I just got a Nokia770. Fortunately we can already browse, by album or genre, showing cover art, so it's sort of like scanning your racks of cds. Erlands custom browse and custom scan plug-ins make this browsing much, much better, by being able to narrow the range of albums to look at. For me, that's like choosing which shelf of my cd collection to look at. When paging thru long lists of album art on the Nokia, it's critical to be able to narrow the items you have to look at. Unfortunately, custom browse isn't designed for the Nokia skin, so for now I have to squint at Fishbone. Presumably someday slim will encorporate more flexible browsing such as custom browse into slimserver directly. -- wnshall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
