I've been a Slimdevices customer for some time now, own two SB3s and a Transporter, and use a combination of slimserver, MusicIP and mp3tag with Allmusic web sources to manage and enjoy a large audio collection.
Whilst I'm extremely satisfied with the "hardware" aspects of the solution (ie using SB3/Transporter as a transport and controlling same via PC or remote) and resulting audio quality, I'm increasingly finding myself frustrated that slimserver's interface for all intents and purposes forces me to treat my music collection as a black box. MusicIP does allow me to work around this to some extent in that it makes for great playlists, however, I find neither interface to be conducive to visually "exploring" my music, much like I did back in the days of the physical LP and CD. In short they both have their uses, but neither are a decent front-end with which to manage a music library. Perhaps I'm asking for too much (I guess it is early days), but what I would like is a standalone music management application that puts my albums back in my hands, it's focus must be on browsing my music library, selecting music by genre, subgenre, style, mood etc, have the ability to link artists to one another/bands etc. and expose relationships within my collection. It should incorporate MusicIP's SDK to allow acoustic playlisting, as well as create playlists based on mood, style, genre, artist etc. It must be able to print my collection, sorted by the criteria of my choosing, optionally include cover art, track listings etc., list all occurrences of a song etc. etc. Finally, it must be able to talk to slimserver's CLI to control the SB3s and Transporter. To my knowledge there's nothing like this out there. There are myriad "music managers", but none that seem to fit the bill and even fewer that talk to slimserver. Am I off the beaten track or does what I'm describing sound like something you'd find damned useful? -- egd Transporter >> SCA2 >> SCM100SLAT via balanced XLR Linux and loving IT! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35229 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
