Robin Bowes;273413 Wrote: > Listener wrote:[color=blue] > > Robin Bowes;273337 Wrote: [color=green] > How do you want to browse for music? What would you like to see that is > > different to what is there already? >
I already gave part of the answer in an earlier post: "My normal selection sequence for classical music is Genre->Composer->Work->Artist (and if necessary, reissue version)." More detail. For some Composers with a lot of works, I also use a sub-genre tag as well: Genre->Composer->Sub_Genre->Work->Artist (and if necessary, reissue version). Having a well tuned system for browsing my library relieves me of the need to remember every CD I own. My player s/w can remember and I can just browse to be reminded what choices I have. I don't want to type anything to search, I just want to look at lists and pick from them. I participated in the discussions that led to Ceejay's enhancement requests. I think that his requests were a good description of practical functionality for classical music. They aren't tied to a single way of doing things and make SS/SB far more flexible. I commend Erland for implementing his plug-ins. I think that that functionality needs to be built into the server s/w and provided with a complete point and click interface for setting up the choice of tags and the construction of menus. (I'm out-of-date in using the plug-ins so I don't know how far along they have progressed.) I'd also like to see a web interface with a customizable set of browser panes like iTunes. On the SB or the new controller, you can only view one tag value at a time in a series of modes. That's all you can do with limited display real estate. On a PC screen, you can view several tag value lists in a modeless interface. > But music players are *not* adaptable - they all use > Track/Album/Artist - so if we want our music to work on > such players we can do one of two things: I did find one s/w player that was very well suited to browsing Classical music: J. River Media Center 12. It can create and use custom tags and database fields. I can use any of those fields in iTunes like Browser panes. For a classical music view scheme, I use Sub_Genre, Composer, Work, Artist and version panes. No compromise there. Foobar s/w also allows a choice of tags for browsing at the cost of a lot of messing around. The iPod is good enough for browsing a subset of my library. It provides some useful browse sequences: Genre->Artist->Album->Track for pop music, jazz, etc. Artist->Album->Track Composer->Album->Track for classical music This requires a bit of compromise. I combined all tracks of a performance of a work into one file and converted from Flac to MP3. I tag the resulting file as Composer: composer Album: work name Artist: performer Track: work name_performer So I am selecting the Artist when I select a track to play. If I had bought some other portable player h/w, I would have relied on browsing a file folder hierarchy. > You could, if the music players supported it. See above. You gave up too soon. See above. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
