i'm in the process of moving my home audio system from something
that's loosely based on andromeda (http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/)
to a system based on the slimserver.
one of the features of our old-world audio system (i.e., the
shelves of CDs, next to the CD player) that i recreated when i
moved to the andromeda system was this: the CDs on our shelves
were not sorted in alphabetical order. they were divided into
very rough categories, one category per shelf (rock, folk,
bluegrass, classical), and within the categories they were sorted
in LRU order. which is to say, every time we finished with a CD,
we put it back at the left end of the shelf. over time, things
rarely listened to drifted to the right end. this was handy a)
at garage sale time ;-), and b) for finding things we hadn't
heard in a while, when our current selections were getting
boring. just start browsing from the right, instead of from the
left. (NB: our collection was modest, so finding any specific
CD didn't take too long.)
when i ripped everything and started using andromeda, i modified
its code so that it presented two views of every folder -- one
alphabetical, and one in LRU order. andromeda re-references the
current folder on every screen refresh, so changing the code
slightly to get what i wanted wasn't very hard.
now i'm moving to slimserver. as far as i can tell, the folders
are all pre-indexed and the results are stored in a database, so
my current tricks with symlinks and sorted tag files won't work.
is there any way to get something similar to the behavior that i
and the rest of my household are used to? i realize i won't get
exactly what i had -- the whole model is kind of different. so
i'm open to brain-storming...
thanks!
paul
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paul fox, pgf (AT) foxharp (DOT) boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 26.2 degrees)
that's loosely based on andromeda (http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/)
to a system based on the slimserver.
one of the features of our old-world audio system (i.e., the
shelves of CDs, next to the CD player) that i recreated when i
moved to the andromeda system was this: the CDs on our shelves
were not sorted in alphabetical order. they were divided into
very rough categories, one category per shelf (rock, folk,
bluegrass, classical), and within the categories they were sorted
in LRU order. which is to say, every time we finished with a CD,
we put it back at the left end of the shelf. over time, things
rarely listened to drifted to the right end. this was handy a)
at garage sale time ;-), and b) for finding things we hadn't
heard in a while, when our current selections were getting
boring. just start browsing from the right, instead of from the
left. (NB: our collection was modest, so finding any specific
CD didn't take too long.)
when i ripped everything and started using andromeda, i modified
its code so that it presented two views of every folder -- one
alphabetical, and one in LRU order. andromeda re-references the
current folder on every screen refresh, so changing the code
slightly to get what i wanted wasn't very hard.
now i'm moving to slimserver. as far as i can tell, the folders
are all pre-indexed and the results are stored in a database, so
my current tricks with symlinks and sorted tag files won't work.
is there any way to get something similar to the behavior that i
and the rest of my household are used to? i realize i won't get
exactly what i had -- the whole model is kind of different. so
i'm open to brain-storming...
thanks!
paul
=---------------------
paul fox, pgf (AT) foxharp (DOT) boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 26.2 degrees)
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