Playlists

[Blayne]

This is how I organize my playlists for a classical which is 90% of my collection.

Symphony, Quartets, Concertos, Sonatas etc.  Where necessary I add an instrument. Violin Sonata, Piano Sonata are 2 different playlist, All lists are arranged in Alpbetical order . If I need to hear all of an artist it is not difficult make a playlist or If I want to compare different interpretations of a work I can create a playlist of Brahms Symphonies I can put the 7 sets on one playlist.

I rarely  want to hear less than a whole work but if I do I select the track I want to hear. My only request is to do with multiple disc works. 

I need the ability to play anywhere from 1 to 4 discs to get the whole work. I would also like the ability to play the list from any point onward.

It seems to me that I am using the BR2 to do what it was intended to do. 

Now it seems that a lot of users want to slice and dice and turn the BR2 into an electronic DJ. Aren't there other devices better suited for this purpose?

Playlists by track etc  are only complications to the BR2  that with few exceptions suites my needs very well.

This back ground is not to disparage anyone that wants to listen to a cd but not hear one track on the cd or to listen to selected tracks from multiple CDs.

This leads me to my question for Martin.

Thinking outside the box would it be better to optimize an OS for Classical and an OS for contemporary needs? 

You could deliver the BR2 in its basic form and have choices to be made for the first update.

You make available either 2 or 3 different optimized OS's to download or maybe a dropdown box of modules to add to the OS. 

This seems to me to be preferred over trying to get the BR2 to be everything for everyone. 

Blayne

[Brennan Support]

Hello Blayne

You may be interested to know that I did experiment with a system of classes or sets (think Venn diagrams) - the code is all there just not exposed. 

So you could have all Sonatas and all Brahms and all Piano for example in their own sets and then combine them. You could do NOT operations so you could exclude a class of music (NOT pop or NOT jazz or NOT Wife's Music for example).

I thought it was a great idea but the user interface looked intimidating so I went for a simpler playlist system. But it may be that this system could be exposed in a Classical mode.

I think the first thing to do is allow playing a playlist from a point - thats the easiest

Martin

[Blayne]

Martin, 

Starting playlist from a point would be great. That will allow me to hear from any point to the end of the list. Could you also add a stop point? this would not be absolutely necessary to hear a 4 disc opera but it would be convenient to know when a multi disc work was completed. Thanks so much for all the work you do. 

Blayne

[Brennan Support]

Hello Blayne

That would be much harder to implement and I think could complicate the UI so I think do the start thing first - low hanging fruit and all that

M