I'm guessing that you have already tried the "Tags" (Dynamic Tags) menu which is available when Custom Browse plugin is used together with the Custom Scan plugin and its "Mixed Tag" scanning module ? I've mentioned it in a few threads, but so far I've got very little feedback on it.
If I understand what you want correctly, it implements your proposal, but isn't as user friendly as you like. If you haven't used it, here is a short description of the functionality of the "Tags" menu: - Standard information scanned by SlimServer will be part of the menu - Custom tags scanned with the Custom Tag scanning module in the Custom Scan plugin will be part of the menu. - The can browse the menu in unlimited number of levels in what ever order you like. A specific "tag" can be selected several times with different values, for example by browsing music that belongs both to the "Pop" genre and the "Rock" genre. So, if you haven't tried it already, I think it might be worth a try, at least to get some sort of feeling about what works good and what doesn't. Here is a link to my wiki that shows an example how you can configure it: http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Setup:_A_dynamic_browse_menu_to_browse_your_music_by_tags Now, some questions regarding your proposal: =========================================== 1. Are we just talking about a web based interface, or do you also want a SqueezeBox interface towards the browsing mechanism ? Or would the "Tags" menu in the current state be good enough for the SqueezeBo interface ? 2. Do you have any specific skin in mind for the web interface, or would default + Fishbone be good enough ? Is Nokia770/Touch skin also a requirement ? 3. Are we just talking about "browsing" or do you also need an interface for editing the different tags/values for a specific song ? Or would it be good enough to store the tags/values in tags in the music files using some of the standard tagging applications available ? 4. Are we just talking about a way to browse your own music by the tags/values you have set, or do you want connection to some sort of central music database where all users can retrieve tags for their music ? Like LastFM/Musicbrainz ? 5. When I compare the current Custom Browse/Custom Scan "Tags" menu with the Fortuna system, the big different is that you will see a lot less information simultaneously on the screen with the "Tags" menu and it also requires a few more clicks to get what you want. Is this the same differences you are seeing or am I missing some major point in your solution ? It would be great to get a discussion about a browsing mechanism like this. For people with a small/medium large library with only Pop/Rock music the current standard SlimServer browsing mechanism probably works quite good. But I've stared to see that for people with classical music, the current SlimServer way of browsing doesn't really work. My feeling so far is that the main problem is that the current browse menus is to static, the result is that you need to know where the thing you are looking for is before you start to browse for it. Another problem is that the current menu structure is to flat for a large library with classical music. The conflict is that the flat menu structure is also great for people with small Pop/Rock libraries, since it makes it easy and fast for them to find things. -- 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=37545 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
