egd;201585 Wrote: > > 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.
I don't think it's asking too much (and don't think it's the early days). The Transporter is impressive, but R&D should have been _poured_ into the interface before its release. Otherwise, people might have a great piece of kit, but still feel (somewhat) cheated. That said, the architecture of the server/client is utterly brilliant. It is great not to be locked into a particular skin, and to have plugins to help where slimserver falls short- But frankly, I don't want to have to install a plugin to make a playlist! There is really no excuse for the default interface not being the best one, because there must be at least one person being paid to make it so. I realize drag-n-drop is asking for a lot, but is there even a way to add to a playlist while playing an album? If I'm not mistaken, a third frame would be required (like Media Monkey), or perhaps status.html could have a dropdown menu to switch to other info... like playlists (and 'add' should default to the open playlist). In a lot of ways the pieces are all there but not really linked, or at least thought out. Clicking an album cover in the song info panel opens the cover in a new browser. I'd prefer nothing, like Fishbone. OTOH, there are a million things you could do there. E.g. load multiple covers/photos from an art directory stored inside the album directory. I believe most of the problem is that there hasn't been a lot of skin development from a team of programmers and designers, which is a project that would seem to beg for such collaboration, and be hard for an individual to accomplish/maintain, yet individuals have outperformed the slimdevices team (on the interface front) for years. Perhaps this was by design in the past, and such as winamp's default skin is hardly the best one, Slimdevices were hoping the community would take over. However, they say first impressions are the truest, and I think, for the sake of profitability if nothing else, the default skin should leave a good one. So good, in fact, that it makes nerds feel cool AND stupid people feel smart. Hopefully it's all moot and Slimserver 7 pans out to be the second coming, but somehow I doubt it (at least not for the default interface from what I can tell). At the risk of suggesting something dead in the water, what I propose is a community designed open source skin, whose progress and design is charted in the wiki. That, or sending massive amounts of cash to whoever can make it better than *Tunes. -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35229 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
