Michael Herger;207661 Wrote: > > What about a wizard style dialog on first startup, asking whether you > want to use iTunes, MusicIP or your own music path. If it's the latter, > let the user visually choose the path as it's seen by the server (no > mounted drive letters and stuff) etc.? > A wizard would help, since it can make the user do the choices in the correct order.
But lets assume that we are talking about someone who doesn't know how SlimServer works. This user has probably not realized that he needs a tagging/ripping program, so he has no idea what to choose in these options. If he has iTunes installed he might choose it, if not he probably choose the music path option since he probably doesn't know what MusicIP is. The advantage of bundle the tagging/ripping software with SlimServer is that when the user install SlimServer, he will be informed that a tagging/ripping software is required. He will also be asked if he wants to install the bundled tagging/ripping software. If he choose to install it, SlimServer will be automatically setup to work as good as possible with this tagging/ripping software. Basically the user has clicked Next->Next->Next->Finish in a number of dialogs and after this everything is setup and ready to use, in the end of the installation he can also choose to automatically start the tagging/ripping software and start ripping his music collection. SlimServer will of course also be automatically started at the end of the installation. I do realize that there will be a bit of work to get everyting described above, but IF logitech is targeting average Joe I think something like this is required to avoid support problems. If we aren't targeting average Joe, a simple wizard at startup might be enough. It can probably detect some things to provide good default values. After all most people will be using Windows XP or Windows Vista and they will store their music in the "My Music" directory under their user. So it should be possible to suggest the correct directory if XP or Vista is used. On Linux no default directory is needed, if someone have installed Linux we can assume he knows what to do. SlimCD or similar solution is probably a better solution for people wanting to run Linux without having any Linux knowledge. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
