willyhoops;240648 Wrote: > Even via the web interface the slim server search seems usless. I just > tried the simple seach with "bach cantatas" and it came up with nothing > even though i have many cantats by bach. i tried "bach" and got two > albums and a bunch of songs, one by bach and one by burt bacharach.
This is most likely because your tags are deficient. (Though it seems mine are too, since Bach matches 3 artists.. Bach, J.S. Bach and Johnann Sebastian Bach.. Better hunt down those albums.) Tagging is a pain in the butt to do correctly, but it really does help a ton in finding things. Even "I want to listen to a piano piece, but gads, I dunno what"... if you have filed your music under composer, good luck browsing by that. If you have nice tags you can browse to the "Solo Piano" genre and find something. I do know where virtually all of my 1600 or so albums are in the heirarchy. But the problem is "what do I want to play." As for the prior example of the Kinks and the Beatles... If you browse by artist, it should show not all the tracks by the artist, but all the albums. Then it is trivial to choose one. (And depending on your tags, it may or may not show tribute albums to that artist.. 'Leonard Cohen' for example contains the album "I'm Your Fan" on my server, since it belongs there.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39082 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
