erland;203659 Wrote: > > > Classical Music > Works by Composer > <Composer> > <Work> > <Movement> > <Song> >
I'm glad to see that you are making the effort to document using your plug-in for browsing classical music. I've responded to your immediate request for comment and added other more general thoughts. I don't see the reason for ... <Movement> <Song> A single movement of a work is usually one track. For me, the most common browse order for classical music is <Genre> <Composer> <Work> <Artist> At this point I just play all the movements of the work. For some composers, I have a lot of different works and a number of performances of some of those works. Sometimes I have several versions of a work performed by the same artist. So I often use a more complicated scheme <Genre> <Sub-Genre> <Composer> <Work> <Artist> <Version> (Sometimes, I select <Composer> before <Sub-Genre>.) ---- What to show for the track playing I need <Composer>, <Work> and <Artist> to identify what's playing. The <Movement> is also of interest to me. I don't have a problem with this set of information scrolling across a short display. ---About a web browser or PC s/w based UI for classical music When you use the SB's two line display, you have to view one kind of tag at a time during the browse process. The small screen size just doesn't allow for anything fancier. When you use a PC screen to select music, you can use the screen real estate to display more information. So the individual menus can become browser panes in an iTunes like display. The list of individual music files meeting the current selection criteria is shown below. Allowing the user to select from the panes in any order makes a single menu structure much more useful. In addition, you can see the effect of your choices so far on the remaining browser panes and on the list of selected music files. ---- length of individual menu lists Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas, about as many string quartets, 5 piano concerti, 1 violin concerto, 9 symphonies and lots of other works. If you have a pretty complete collection of Beethoven's major works, you are going to be scrolling through a long list at the <Work> stage. This scale isn't unique to Beethoven; Haydn wrote 104 symphonies (and a few other differently numbered ones), nearly as many string quartets and plenty of other music. Mozart wrote 40 symphonies (and some minor ones), 27 piano concerti and lots of other music. JC Bach and Vivaldi produced lots of worthwhile music. Chopin wrote lots of mazurkas, waltzes, etudes, scherzos and other piano music. I think that the 2 line display on the Squeezebox is viable for smallish collections of classical music with the right menu structure. However, for larger collections you need more screen real estate and an iTunes like interface showing several browser panes at once. Bill Hunt -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35420 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
