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I know the HTPC focus for most people is is on tv and movies. I myself am very much into music. It would be interesting to hear if there are any more music lovers out there.
As I am putting my entire music collection on a server, there are a few improvements I would like to see in My Music.
Media Portal, as well as most jukebox software I have tried, is very good at managing songs, but not so developed when it comes to playlists. When you start to get thousands of tracks in your collection, this gets important. Browsing maybe five hundred artists is not very effective.
Windows Media Player is a good tool to manage the music collection and to create playlists. The problem is that playlists created in WMP uses relative paths, and MP needs absolute paths to find the songs. This looks to be an easy fix. Maybe MP could even read the WMP database.
As playlists become central, there should be a playlist button in My Music, which takes you to the playlist directory, instead of having to find "My Playlists" somewhere in the music collection. Here you can have a structure of directories, for instance one for genre playlists, one for mood playlists and one for artist playlists.
Anoter powerful feature would be an incremental search function. You use the number buttons on your remote very much like the buttons on your cellphone (press 5 two times for "k"). As an example, if you type "ab" you get "ABBA", "Baby love" and "Abrakadabra". If you then press "r" you would only have "Abrakadabra" left and you can press "add to playlist".
The last thing I'm asking for is something I would like to call "Top shelf". If you click the Top shelf button in My Music you see a collection of twelve playlists, which are the four most recently played, the four most recently created and the four that are the most played during the last four months.
I'm looking forward to read your feedback on this.
As I am putting my entire music collection on a server, there are a few improvements I would like to see in My Music.
Media Portal, as well as most jukebox software I have tried, is very good at managing songs, but not so developed when it comes to playlists. When you start to get thousands of tracks in your collection, this gets important. Browsing maybe five hundred artists is not very effective.
Windows Media Player is a good tool to manage the music collection and to create playlists. The problem is that playlists created in WMP uses relative paths, and MP needs absolute paths to find the songs. This looks to be an easy fix. Maybe MP could even read the WMP database.
As playlists become central, there should be a playlist button in My Music, which takes you to the playlist directory, instead of having to find "My Playlists" somewhere in the music collection. Here you can have a structure of directories, for instance one for genre playlists, one for mood playlists and one for artist playlists.
Anoter powerful feature would be an incremental search function. You use the number buttons on your remote very much like the buttons on your cellphone (press 5 two times for "k"). As an example, if you type "ab" you get "ABBA", "Baby love" and "Abrakadabra". If you then press "r" you would only have "Abrakadabra" left and you can press "add to playlist".
The last thing I'm asking for is something I would like to call "Top shelf". If you click the Top shelf button in My Music you see a collection of twelve playlists, which are the four most recently played, the four most recently created and the four that are the most played during the last four months.
I'm looking forward to read your feedback on this.