ralphpnj;271837 Wrote: > Okay, I've been reading about the new Slim Devices Squeezebox Controller > with it's wonderful little 2.4 inch color display and some of the other > music streaming devices/systems with their remotes and/or displays > which also show cover art and quite frankly I just understand what all > the fuss is about. > > LPs had a 12" square surface area on which to display "cover" art then > CDs came along and the area available for "cover" art had shrunk to a > 4-1/2" square. NOw we get the Controller and again the area for "cover" > art has shrunk, this time to a 2.4" square. So I guess that means the > Controller display of cover art is about equal to that on a video iPod. > I don't know about you but I find the cover art display (even the larger > version of the cover art display) on the iPod to pretty much useless. > Sure it's a nice little, tiny picture but it's still pretty much > useless. > > Why is it useless? For one thing, aside from the pretty picture, cover > art tells my nothing about the recording. How about having the ability > to display something useful, like let's see: > > 1) Complete track listing with running times and total time, composer, > etc. > > 2) Liner notes > > 3) Recording information, i.e. date and location of recording, > personnel, producer, recording engineer, etc. > > and just for the hell of it > > 4) Links on all the of above displays to various items. For example a > link on the song title to other versions of the song within one's music > library or on each performer to other recordings in one's music library > where that performer is present. So when I'm listening to Miles Davis' > "Kind Of Blue" and I click on "Bill Evans" I get a complete list of all > of the recordings in my music library on which Bill Evans appears. And > not only that but Bill Evans, the pianist and not Bill Evans, the sax > player. > > Now that would be something worth having. No offense, but you don't seem to be the visual type of guy. I find even tiny pictures very useful in recognising an album. More often than not I can identify an album by its cover rather than by name. It's also useful in those moments when you look for an album to play but both the album and artist name have slipped your mind. The above applies mostly to the album list, but cover art is also helpful on the Now playing screen because you can identify the currently playing album even if you're too far away to read the artist and album name.
Some of what you propose in 4) is already possible today. When viewing the track details you can navigate from the artist to all albums by that artist, from album to the complete album list, from genre to all albums in that genre and from year to all albums from that year. Regarding recognition of different artists with the same name (Bill Evans). This is not really feasible. How would a program know if its the one or the other? The only solution that comes to mind would be to tag the two artists accordingly, eg. "Bill Evans (Piano)" and "Bill Evans (Sax)". All of the extra information you want to add can go into a comment tag. This way it's only a click or two away. -s. -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43750 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
