slimpy;271845 Wrote: > No offense, but you don't seem to be the visual type of guy. > ..... > > 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.
I don't think that I'm not "the visual type of guy", it's just that I'm more of jazz fan than anything else and in the world of jazz it's things like personnel and recording dates that are truly important and not the tiny little cover art. Except of course for those Miles Davis album like "Bitches Brew" and "Live Evil". As for your reference to using the remote to navigate through artist/album/genre/year/etc - yes it works but in a very crude way. For example say that you're listening to a recording by one artist and you navigate to that artist's album listing and one of the albums on that list is a recording featuring various artists. Well when you select that recording you only get the track on which that artist appears and no the entire recording. Or say that you're listen to an recording by "Prince and the Revolution" and you want to go an recording by "Prince" (without "the Revolution"), it's just not possible. Or you're listening to a Keith Jarrett Trio recording and you want to find out who is in the trio and maybe navigate to a recording on which one of the other members of the trio also appears, again not possible. And I haven't even touched on how useless most of these navigation features are when it comes to classical music. As for the comment tag, again useful for information but not for further navigation. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like something that: 1) gives me complete information about the recording and not just a tiny picture 2) enables me to explore my music library much the same that I have in the past - going from one recording to another recording related to the first in some way, be it by personnel, recording date, producer, composer, etc. And here's something that I almost forgot. What about all the recordings in one's music library with no official "cover" art, such as that Grateful Dead concert from 1972, that Dylan bootleg from 1987 or a live show downloaded from archive.org? -- ralphpnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43750 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
