this all sounds promising, I can only contribute by a donation now and then ( if this works out ) and cheering from the sideline.
what i've been reeding your wiki and wondering is what is required of the end user the use this system to best effect. For example tagging, mine is very basic and rudimentary, would SMD work better if I had all these suggested mood or style tags and if had "Musicbrains tags". where does the style and mood tags come from. BTW i have never undestood what Musicbrains and picard do, it add some strange tags, but is there any music playback software that actually use them for something ? I keept my tags simple because there are no solid standards, I realy don't want to commit to a lot of work to adapt the tagging towards a particular player, I can change that atitude if it's reallly worth the effort. i'm planning to work over my tags once more to consolidate genres to something usefull I have 210 genres ? One Task for your group would be to write a clearcut tagging guide for the SMD system. Or what about populating the dB with this extra information from all the mentioned sources, without touching the file tags. You hint at that as a solution I would love that :) Then I would not have to fidle with tagging , This would be a killer feature for me. I would be very happy with the default suggestions from these online databases as a beggining, it's much better than nothing. maybe later on one would finess this toward ones own preferences , if the interface is easy and fast to use . Example I simply don't use rating as much i want to do because I can not rate a whole album from any interface but the web-UI, or an whole artist or genre . i saw the screenshots of the propesed RCP client , this looks likenwhat I need :) this writes to the SMD database, can some parts be exported back to the tags If i chache the spelling of an artist or any other thing thats is in an pre existing tag, I would like the possibility i do have spotify and facebook would this somehow be integrated ? i have a free last.fm account can this used to some effect. the RCP client ? Does it run on the server or is it suposed to run on your laptop/destop ? Good luck with this it has potential to be very good ? i'll just go figure if i can get java on my headles linux server, I migth try this . -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90278 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
