adamslim;201717 Wrote: > In threads discussing SB4s and the like, I have often expressed the need > for improvements to the software and interface; the hardware is fine > (indeed the architecture is such that all the improvements needed are > software, which is great for existing users).
Agreed, I'm 100% comfortable with the hardware aspect, and even the slimserver aspect insofar as it allows one to control the Squeezebox. However, as an audio library management system Slimserver leaves a lot to be desired. I would like to see a standalone, platform independent application that: - Maintains either its own or utilises an enhanced slimserver database schema allowing the addition and maintenance of metadata - Allows manual creation / automated retrieval of metadata from Allmusic Tapestry and optionally adds selectable metadata to tags rather than just the DB - Incorporates an interface to acoustic analysis from MusicIP and/or Allmusic Lasso - Enables playlist generation using Allmusic Tapestry and acoustic analysis whether it be MusicIP's or Allmusic Lasso - Lets me visually browse my music collection and associated metadata. I imagine a tab based window structure with artists listed in a pane, followed by Biography and Albums tabs - Highlighting an Artist in the pane brings up their Biography and fills the Album tab with the albums covers of the albums you have for that artist - Selecting or mousing over an album cover shows the tracklist and album review somewhere in the same tab - You have the option of playing the album, a random selection of songs by that artist or selecting song(s) from the album to seed a metadata or acoustic analysis based playlist - you can view all tracks by artist sorted by album, year, collaborator etc. - you can right click and find all instances of the song in your collection - at the click of a button you can instantly retrieve and store/update allmusic metadata for every album in your collection (or only those you have selected), this is done automatically for new albums [should you configure it so] - Everything you can see from your PC screen can also be seen via a touchscreen wireless remote of your choosing - so long as it can access slimserver and has sufficient screen real estate - Allmusic Lasso and Tapestry integration is built in, but access to their data may be subscription based, or use some other suitable licensing arrangement. If you choose to opt-out the functionality is still there and you can tag and add content to the DB manually, however, the base functionality remains, it may just be that you have no metadata or that you have manually inserted your metadata I could go on and on, talk about Genre's etc. but I guess you get the idea [...wipes drool from chin]. I appreciate that a lot of this may sound grandiose, hard to implement etc, however, I'm damned sure it would work a treat and provide a very compelling proposition to the market if pursued. The building blocks already exist, all that is required now is the willingness to make it happen. -- 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
