erland wrote: > Would you be able to live with similar browsing features that you get > with MinimServer and foobar2000 in case my plugins stops working ? > Just asking to understand if we have a minimum feature set that could be > the start of something new. Trying to solve it all is likely going to be > too much work for someone to get interested in doing something so I > think the key is to find the baby steps that takes us into the right > direction. > How are you able to browse with MinimServer and/or foobar2000 ? With foobar one can define 'filters' to do pretty much select anything you want. So I have all sorts of filters, one two and even 3 level filters (eg composer/work/workartist, conductor/composer/work, etc). I primarily use it to check for errors in my tags. I can also search explicitly on sort forms of all the main tags, find works with multiple composers, and so on. It's a great analysis tool, just not so hot at actually playing music on my various devices, and it can't play on my Touch players.
Minimserver is also very good, but again can't use the Touch players. I can access it from various UPnP devices, including upplay on linux PCs, and it has a reasonable menu capability, not unlike your 'pick which tag you want to start with' menus, then filtering down to what you want to play. It can use all my custom tags in the menu. For reasons I am now unsure of I had to effectively duplicate Work to Group - I think it was to allow multiple versions of a work to appear on one album and be selected correctly (so the Group has a suffix added to the Work name to differentiate multiple entries). It's the most usable alternative to LMS that I've found for playing music. So, at a minimum, I need Work, Movement, WorkArtist and Rating tags, and selection across most artist-type and rating tags. If not in specific menus then using a 'Browse tag' type menu. Does that make sense? LMS 8.1 on PC, Xubuntu 20.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. 2 Touches & EDO. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (A308CR amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Also Minimserver & Upplay to same & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to Meridian USB Explorer DAC to PC speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 20.04 laptop firefox/upplay or Android mobile with Squeeze-Ctrl/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106488 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
