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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Reopened
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Priority:
P2
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Fix Version/s: Product
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Component/s: Windows > Music
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Labels:None
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Severity:Major
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Version:1.0.1.16319
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Operating System:Boxee Box
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Number of attachments:0
Description
I would like to see these functions implemented in the music player:
1) Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
2) Playlist creation
3) Shuffle all tracks
4) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
1) Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
2) Playlist creation
3) Shuffle all tracks
4) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
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BOXEE-7877
Seek (ff/rew) functionality by playing local music is disappeared
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Dave
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Usage of the "album artist" or "band" ID3 tag is more important to me.
My vote went here instead: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
My vote went here instead: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
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Alby Anderson
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We all want this open source project to succeed. I understand that internet video has to be the main focus. I would just like a comment from Avner or someone at Boxee that a good Music Player is in our future.
Thanks
Thanks
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Alby Anderson
added a comment - We all want this open source project to succeed. I understand that internet video has to be the main focus. I would just like a comment from Avner or someone at Boxee that a good Music Player is in our future.
Thanks
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Vlad
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I am hoping that media player includes music. I bought the device for music as much as for video. Right now it sucks at music. Please do some work on music player. We want to browse/filter music by album, artist, genre, etc It would be nice to have a music browser with album covers and music descriptions (all coming from mp3s themselves) and so on.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Vlad
added a comment - I am hoping that media player includes music. I bought the device for music as much as for video. Right now it sucks at music. Please do some work on music player. We want to browse/filter music by album, artist, genre, etc It would be nice to have a music browser with album covers and music descriptions (all coming from mp3s themselves) and so on.
Thanks.
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Robert Patt-Corner
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I purchased (and waited nearly a year) for Boxee almost exclusively for UPNP access to music. The 0.9 interface was adequate enough to limp me along; the 1.0 is a disaster, even with the promised changes. To be useful we need the ability:
1. To access UPNP sources and have it work
2. To queue up more than one song at a time, e.g. a playlist, queue, all album or all artist
3. To use SMB without the URL showing our password to the world
4. To select and sort by reasonable criteria, even if supplied by the UPNP server
1. To access UPNP sources and have it work
2. To queue up more than one song at a time, e.g. a playlist, queue, all album or all artist
3. To use SMB without the URL showing our password to the world
4. To select and sort by reasonable criteria, even if supplied by the UPNP server
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Robert Patt-Corner
added a comment - I purchased (and waited nearly a year) for Boxee almost exclusively for UPNP access to music. The 0.9 interface was adequate enough to limp me along; the 1.0 is a disaster, even with the promised changes. To be useful we need the ability:
1. To access UPNP sources and have it work
2. To queue up more than one song at a time, e.g. a playlist, queue, all album or all artist
3. To use SMB without the URL showing our password to the world
4. To select and sort by reasonable criteria, even if supplied by the UPNP server
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Kevin Sartori
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XBMC includes a "Party Mode" which allows you to listen to all of your music in random order. It seems to use the playlist function to create a group of random songs. As one song finishes playing, another is randomly added to the bottom of the playlist. My guess is that XBMC is also keeping track of what songs have played as I don't ever hear the same song played twice, even after hours of random playback.
Listening to random tracks in my collection is my primary method of listening to music. For me, implementation of a "Party Mode" or "Shuffle All" mode is one of just a few fairly minor features that are holding me back from buying a Boxee Box. The other "dealbreaker" features for me are local folder.jpg and .nfo support for Movies and TV Shows (which you are currently implementing!) and AlbumArtist/Band MP3 tag support for Music:
http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
I want Boxee Box to replace my Western Digital WD TV Live HD (for local video playback) and my AppleTV w/XBMC (for local music playback). The Internet apps are a plus, but are not primary in my consideration.
Thanks!
Listening to random tracks in my collection is my primary method of listening to music. For me, implementation of a "Party Mode" or "Shuffle All" mode is one of just a few fairly minor features that are holding me back from buying a Boxee Box. The other "dealbreaker" features for me are local folder.jpg and .nfo support for Movies and TV Shows (which you are currently implementing!) and AlbumArtist/Band MP3 tag support for Music:
http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
I want Boxee Box to replace my Western Digital WD TV Live HD (for local video playback) and my AppleTV w/XBMC (for local music playback). The Internet apps are a plus, but are not primary in my consideration.
Thanks!
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Kevin Sartori
added a comment - XBMC includes a "Party Mode" which allows you to listen to all of your music in random order. It seems to use the playlist function to create a group of random songs. As one song finishes playing, another is randomly added to the bottom of the playlist. My guess is that XBMC is also keeping track of what songs have played as I don't ever hear the same song played twice, even after hours of random playback.
Listening to random tracks in my collection is my primary method of listening to music. For me, implementation of a "Party Mode" or "Shuffle All" mode is one of just a few fairly minor features that are holding me back from buying a Boxee Box. The other "dealbreaker" features for me are local folder.jpg and .nfo support for Movies and TV Shows (which you are currently implementing!) and AlbumArtist/Band MP3 tag support for Music:
http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
I want Boxee Box to replace my Western Digital WD TV Live HD (for local video playback) and my AppleTV w/XBMC (for local music playback). The Internet apps are a plus, but are not primary in my consideration.
Thanks!
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Brett Danielson
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I think that something as simple as allowing the user to "browse by folder" under the Music menu would go a great way to helping matters. All my music, and I'm sure many others, is sorted by folder. Telling my wife to use the Folder navigator for picking music is not a good solution.
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Brett Danielson
added a comment - I think that something as simple as allowing the user to "browse by folder" under the Music menu would go a great way to helping matters. All my music, and I'm sure many others, is sorted by folder. Telling my wife to use the Folder navigator for picking music is not a good solution.
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ziggy tosh
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Agreed. I'm very happy with my Boxee Box, but it would be great to have better control over the way music is played. Specifically, I'd like the ability to:
1. shuffle randomly through entire music library
2. easily move from song to song when music is organized into large numbers of folders (itunes)
3. easily sort and re-sort by genre, recently played, artist, etc.
1. shuffle randomly through entire music library
2. easily move from song to song when music is organized into large numbers of folders (itunes)
3. easily sort and re-sort by genre, recently played, artist, etc.
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ziggy tosh
added a comment - Agreed. I'm very happy with my Boxee Box, but it would be great to have better control over the way music is played. Specifically, I'd like the ability to:
1. shuffle randomly through entire music library
2. easily move from song to song when music is organized into large numbers of folders (itunes)
3. easily sort and re-sort by genre, recently played, artist, etc.
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Phat Phreddy
added a comment -
Album artist is my primary sorting need.. I will vote and watch as I assume this is included in part 4.
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Phat Phreddy
added a comment - Album artist is my primary sorting need.. I will vote and watch as I assume this is included in part 4.
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Kevin Meier
added a comment -
I almost never listen to just an artist or album. My preference is by genre or custom playlist depending on my mood.
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Kevin Meier
added a comment - I almost never listen to just an artist or album. My preference is by genre or custom playlist depending on my mood.
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Rui Pinheiro
added a comment -
I bought this device mostly for music and it's a disappointment on this particular.
Album Artist is a must for compilation albums with more than one artist...
my vote went here: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
Album Artist is a must for compilation albums with more than one artist...
my vote went here: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
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Rui Pinheiro
added a comment - I bought this device mostly for music and it's a disappointment on this particular.
Album Artist is a must for compilation albums with more than one artist...
my vote went here: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-4811
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David PEtrie
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This is probably the #1 feature that makes me search the forums for news of native XBMC running on Boxee. I like the simplied interface. I like the online integration. It just needs help as a MP3 player. All of my handheld MP3 players can do this... why can't the Boxee Box?
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David PEtrie
added a comment - This is probably the #1 feature that makes me search the forums for news of native XBMC running on Boxee. I like the simplied interface. I like the online integration. It just needs help as a MP3 player. All of my handheld MP3 players can do this... why can't the Boxee Box?
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They've had over 4 years to get the music player up to winamp 1.0 status, I think this may be a deal breaker for me as I'd like to use Boxee Box as a media center but can't, I would be happy with the most basic of mp3 players:
- track oriented view, sortable by date created on smb server (seriously, who plays music by artist/album, and sorted by alpha?)
- any sort of playlist support whatsoever
- bb can create video playlists but not audio? wtf?
- can forward/rewind through video but not audio??
XBMC 10 years ago had a better music player, and I've read boxee threads where external devs have volunteered to work on this, this is simply mismanagement.
- track oriented view, sortable by date created on smb server (seriously, who plays music by artist/album, and sorted by alpha?)
- any sort of playlist support whatsoever
- bb can create video playlists but not audio? wtf?
- can forward/rewind through video but not audio??
XBMC 10 years ago had a better music player, and I've read boxee threads where external devs have volunteered to work on this, this is simply mismanagement.
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inboulder
added a comment - - edited They've had over 4 years to get the music player up to winamp 1.0 status, I think this may be a deal breaker for me as I'd like to use Boxee Box as a media center but can't, I would be happy with the most basic of mp3 players:
- track oriented view, sortable by date created on smb server (seriously, who plays music by artist/album, and sorted by alpha?)
- any sort of playlist support whatsoever
- bb can create video playlists but not audio? wtf?
- can forward/rewind through video but not audio??
XBMC 10 years ago had a better music player, and I've read boxee threads where external devs have volunteered to work on this, this is simply mismanagement.
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Julian Scarfe
added a comment -
+1, music weakness is one of the reasons I am hesitant to recommend Boxee Box for others
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Julian Scarfe
added a comment - +1, music weakness is one of the reasons I am hesitant to recommend Boxee Box for others
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Jeffrey Elzenaar
added a comment -
Fast Forward / Rewind music. That's an important feature for me.
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Jeffrey Elzenaar
added a comment - Fast Forward / Rewind music. That's an important feature for me.
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Julio Telles
added a comment - A shuffle 'ALL' feature is greatly needed here.
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Rasmus Henriksen
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I'd be happy with just a simple queue function.
Like this: I own an iPad, I get some friends over. Instead of having my projector on, people could queue songs they'd like to hear hasslefree :)
Like this: I own an iPad, I get some friends over. Instead of having my projector on, people could queue songs they'd like to hear hasslefree :)
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Rasmus Henriksen
added a comment - I'd be happy with just a simple queue function.
Like this: I own an iPad, I get some friends over. Instead of having my projector on, people could queue songs they'd like to hear hasslefree :)
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Filip Lejon
added a comment - +1 Shuffle All Tracks
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Arash Negari
added a comment -
We would like to see these functions implemented in the music player:
1) Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
2) Playlist creation
3) Shuffle all tracks
4) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
1) Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
2) Playlist creation
3) Shuffle all tracks
4) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
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Arash Negari
added a comment - We would like to see these functions implemented in the music player:
1) Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
2) Playlist creation
3) Shuffle all tracks
4) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
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Chord Haase
added a comment - + 1 for a change to the visualization!
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Daniele Dellafiore
added a comment -
totally my + 1 to see ProjectM back as default visualization.
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Daniele Dellafiore
added a comment - totally my + 1 to see ProjectM back as default visualization.
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Harvey Chapman
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the two most important features:
- ability to play music. BoxeeBox only allows you to play all of the tracks in a single album. If you have a folder full of random songs, they will all be listed under different albums and artists (as they should be), but you can't just play them all. You have to manually navigate to and play each one separately. This to me disqualifies BoxeeBox as a local music player completely. If it weren't for Pandora, RadioTime, and uPnP playback, Boxee would have zero support for music.
- seeking. needed for podcasts
- as for visualization, let's focus on the ability to actually play music first. But once we get there, I'd like to be able to activate the slideshow screensaver with perhaps the little info box at the top of the screen when tracks change (like it does now). This would allow for a nice slideshow and music for family gatherings and parties.
Thanks!
- ability to play music. BoxeeBox only allows you to play all of the tracks in a single album. If you have a folder full of random songs, they will all be listed under different albums and artists (as they should be), but you can't just play them all. You have to manually navigate to and play each one separately. This to me disqualifies BoxeeBox as a local music player completely. If it weren't for Pandora, RadioTime, and uPnP playback, Boxee would have zero support for music.
- seeking. needed for podcasts
- as for visualization, let's focus on the ability to actually play music first. But once we get there, I'd like to be able to activate the slideshow screensaver with perhaps the little info box at the top of the screen when tracks change (like it does now). This would allow for a nice slideshow and music for family gatherings and parties.
Thanks!
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Harvey Chapman
added a comment - the two most important features:
- ability to play music. BoxeeBox only allows you to play all of the tracks in a single album. If you have a folder full of random songs, they will all be listed under different albums and artists (as they should be), but you can't just play them all. You have to manually navigate to and play each one separately. This to me disqualifies BoxeeBox as a local music player completely. If it weren't for Pandora, RadioTime, and uPnP playback, Boxee would have zero support for music.
- seeking. needed for podcasts
- as for visualization, let's focus on the ability to actually play music first. But once we get there, I'd like to be able to activate the slideshow screensaver with perhaps the little info box at the top of the screen when tracks change (like it does now). This would allow for a nice slideshow and music for family gatherings and parties.
Thanks!
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Antonio Pagioro
added a comment -
Hello,
I would really like to see and use something better than the actual music player included in the Boxee.
As already said here, the Boxee is really poor in matter of play local music media.
Right now my plans are to get my HTPC back and shutdown my Boxee Box.
Thanks!
I would really like to see and use something better than the actual music player included in the Boxee.
As already said here, the Boxee is really poor in matter of play local music media.
Right now my plans are to get my HTPC back and shutdown my Boxee Box.
Thanks!
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Antonio Pagioro
added a comment - Hello,
I would really like to see and use something better than the actual music player included in the Boxee.
As already said here, the Boxee is really poor in matter of play local music media.
Right now my plans are to get my HTPC back and shutdown my Boxee Box.
Thanks!
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Thomas
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+3 for changing visualization (simply show cover and some song info), at least i would be happy
+2 adding/editing/creating playlists
+2 simple way for adding online radio streams
+1 more filtering options (like genre, year, recently played, play counter (how often a song was played)
+0.5 faster scanning mode
+2 adding/editing/creating playlists
+2 simple way for adding online radio streams
+1 more filtering options (like genre, year, recently played, play counter (how often a song was played)
+0.5 faster scanning mode
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Thomas
added a comment - +3 for changing visualization (simply show cover and some song info), at least i would be happy
+2 adding/editing/creating playlists
+2 simple way for adding online radio streams
+1 more filtering options (like genre, year, recently played, play counter (how often a song was played)
+0.5 faster scanning mode
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Jonathan Steinhart
added a comment -
+1 shuffle all tracks - should be easy to write this, and it will make a lot of people happy!
nicer (eventually) would be the ability to queue things up when playing in random mode, play the queued stuff first, and then continue playing random stuff....
nicer (eventually) would be the ability to queue things up when playing in random mode, play the queued stuff first, and then continue playing random stuff....
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Jonathan Steinhart
added a comment - +1 shuffle all tracks - should be easy to write this, and it will make a lot of people happy!
nicer (eventually) would be the ability to queue things up when playing in random mode, play the queued stuff first, and then continue playing random stuff....
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Harvey Chapman
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Please add:
*) stop damaging plasma displays. Do this by allowing the screensaver to run when paused and by not leaving the song text in the same place all the time.
*) stop damaging plasma displays. Do this by allowing the screensaver to run when paused and by not leaving the song text in the same place all the time.
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Harvey Chapman
added a comment - Please add:
*) stop damaging plasma displays. Do this by allowing the screensaver to run when paused and by not leaving the song text in the same place all the time.
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Luis C
added a comment -
I would love to have at least the same UI features as in other sections of boxee, i.e: movies/shows
1. Letter list at the side, that helps scrolling and finding stuff.
I am dealing with 1000+ artists and it gets stuck while scrolling/jumps to bottom/freeze for seconds/crash the box
I don't know why this section doesn't function as good as Movies or Shows while scrolling the same amount of entries.
2. Rescan button/sorting by recently added... just the same options!
My vote for new features goes to:
1. Queue!!
2. Play a subsection, meaning all albums from an artist in a row
3. Local search for music files
1. Letter list at the side, that helps scrolling and finding stuff.
I am dealing with 1000+ artists and it gets stuck while scrolling/jumps to bottom/freeze for seconds/crash the box
I don't know why this section doesn't function as good as Movies or Shows while scrolling the same amount of entries.
2. Rescan button/sorting by recently added... just the same options!
My vote for new features goes to:
1. Queue!!
2. Play a subsection, meaning all albums from an artist in a row
3. Local search for music files
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Luis C
added a comment - I would love to have at least the same UI features as in other sections of boxee, i.e: movies/shows
1. Letter list at the side, that helps scrolling and finding stuff.
I am dealing with 1000+ artists and it gets stuck while scrolling/jumps to bottom/freeze for seconds/crash the box
I don't know why this section doesn't function as good as Movies or Shows while scrolling the same amount of entries.
2. Rescan button/sorting by recently added... just the same options!
My vote for new features goes to:
1. Queue!!
2. Play a subsection, meaning all albums from an artist in a row
3. Local search for music files
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
added a comment -
version 1.1.0.18969 adds Seek for local music playback
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
added a comment - version 1.1.0.18969 adds Seek for local music playback
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
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version 1.1.0.18969 adds Seek for online music playback. for example audio podcasts.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
added a comment - version 1.1.0.18969 adds Seek for online music playback. for example audio podcasts.
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Vinny Lawrenson-Woods
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Manually adding artist pics / album covers would also be a great addition.
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Vinny Lawrenson-Woods
added a comment - Manually adding artist pics / album covers would also be a great addition.
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Joshua Ryan
added a comment - +1 All of the above!!
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Js Tanguay
added a comment - Better visualisations will be good!
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Giovani Spagnolo
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Specially "Shuffle all tracks" and "Shuffle all tracks with Photo Slideshow" could be accessible from the Home Page or from the Music/Photo Menu for quick launch in occasions where you want boxee to play music/photos while having dinner with friends, etc...
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Giovani Spagnolo
added a comment - Specially "Shuffle all tracks" and "Shuffle all tracks with Photo Slideshow" could be accessible from the Home Page or from the Music/Photo Menu for quick launch in occasions where you want boxee to play music/photos while having dinner with friends, etc...
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Greg Walters
added a comment - +1 all of the above.
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Nigel Jones
added a comment -
The following features would really help Boxee when it comes to functioning as a music player:
1) to be able to manually create a queue (playlist held in memory) and to manage it
2) autogeneration of a queue based on user-supplied criteria (all tracks, specific artist, album, folder, genre) and number of tracks
3) an optional dynamic queue that automatically adds tracks as the queue empties
4) the ability to disable the visualiser
1) to be able to manually create a queue (playlist held in memory) and to manage it
2) autogeneration of a queue based on user-supplied criteria (all tracks, specific artist, album, folder, genre) and number of tracks
3) an optional dynamic queue that automatically adds tracks as the queue empties
4) the ability to disable the visualiser
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Nigel Jones
added a comment - The following features would really help Boxee when it comes to functioning as a music player:
1) to be able to manually create a queue (playlist held in memory) and to manage it
2) autogeneration of a queue based on user-supplied criteria (all tracks, specific artist, album, folder, genre) and number of tracks
3) an optional dynamic queue that automatically adds tracks as the queue empties
4) the ability to disable the visualiser
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John Sciolino
added a comment -
Buy a Sonos, you will never go back to Boxee for music. I dont think Boxee will listen since it doesnt convert to $$
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John Sciolino
added a comment - Buy a Sonos, you will never go back to Boxee for music. I dont think Boxee will listen since it doesnt convert to $$
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Sven Bergmann
added a comment - +1
!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bill Daly
added a comment -
I just want Milkdrop visualizations from XBMC mainly. I can get over lack of a playlist editor/compiler but not the visualizations... I would rather cut off a toe of mine and watch it bleed out than to watch the SAME OLD visualization on Boxee Box one more time... it's actually kind of frustrating theres ONLY 1 STOCK VISUALIZATION that I have to work with. Please add more than just 1... even 3 would be better than 1.
iRoNBiLL
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Bill Daly
added a comment - I just want Milkdrop visualizations from XBMC mainly. I can get over lack of a playlist editor/compiler but not the visualizations... I would rather cut off a toe of mine and watch it bleed out than to watch the SAME OLD visualization on Boxee Box one more time... it's actually kind of frustrating theres ONLY 1 STOCK VISUALIZATION that I have to work with. Please add more than just 1... even 3 would be better than 1.
iRoNBiLL
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Bryan Cook
added a comment - +1 Additional Visualizations!
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Daniel Moore
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I love the boxeebox, but it seriously needs more music features like playlists, on the go playlists, being able to play a whole album or artist etc etc.
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Daniel Moore
added a comment - I love the boxeebox, but it seriously needs more music features like playlists, on the go playlists, being able to play a whole album or artist etc etc.
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darcilicious
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@Daniel I agree 100% but just so you know, you can use playlists now on the Boxee Box and you can play a whole album just fine now. (Shuffle for an album and a playlist also work).
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darcilicious
added a comment - @Daniel I agree 100% but just so you know, you can use playlists now on the Boxee Box and you can play a whole album just fine now. (Shuffle for an album and a playlist also work).
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innovativevsregressive
added a comment - Native playlist support is a must.
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Com'on, this is basic functionality!!! We need a good fully featured Music Player!!!
Features I'm interested in:
- Playlists creation
- Ability to play based on Genre, Artists, Year, Recently played, Starred songs, etc
- Shuffle all tracks
- Custom/Better Visualisations
- Support for Podcasts
- Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
- More filtering options (like genre, year, recently played, play counter (how often a song was played)
- Support for Album artwork (in-build/folder.jpg)
Best regards,
Suraj Amin
http://www.surajamin.com
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
–-Oscar Wilde
Features I'm interested in:
- Playlists creation
- Ability to play based on Genre, Artists, Year, Recently played, Starred songs, etc
- Shuffle all tracks
- Custom/Better Visualisations
- Support for Podcasts
- Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
- More filtering options (like genre, year, recently played, play counter (how often a song was played)
- Support for Album artwork (in-build/folder.jpg)
Best regards,
Suraj Amin
http://www.surajamin.com
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
–-Oscar Wilde
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Suraj Amin
added a comment - - edited Com'on, this is basic functionality!!! We need a good fully featured Music Player!!!
Features I'm interested in:
- Playlists creation
- Ability to play based on Genre, Artists, Year, Recently played, Starred songs, etc
- Shuffle all tracks
- Custom/Better Visualisations
- Support for Podcasts
- Music seeking. Currently only seems to be able to skip tracks.
- More filtering options (like genre, year, recently played, play counter (how often a song was played)
- Support for Album artwork (in-build/folder.jpg)
Best regards,
Suraj Amin
http://www.surajamin.com
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
–-Oscar Wilde
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Theo Mimpen
added a comment -
Basically I'm looking for the same functionality that any MP3 player offers today, with most important the playlist and shuffle function. Playlist creation should be easy by direct accessing all your music files in the network.
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Theo Mimpen
added a comment - Basically I'm looking for the same functionality that any MP3 player offers today, with most important the playlist and shuffle function. Playlist creation should be easy by direct accessing all your music files in the network.
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Thomas Pruschke
added a comment -
Well, completely agree. In addition, my Boxee (lates firmware version, sitauted in Germany) does recognize the music album and interpret correctly, but completely shuffels the playlist, and also ignores all attempts to force a certain order of titles by renaming them. As with movie or TV series, an option fixing the order of the playlist would be great!
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Thomas Pruschke
added a comment - Well, completely agree. In addition, my Boxee (lates firmware version, sitauted in Germany) does recognize the music album and interpret correctly, but completely shuffels the playlist, and also ignores all attempts to force a certain order of titles by renaming them. As with movie or TV series, an option fixing the order of the playlist would be great!
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michael weeks
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Just purchased a Boxee Box and I am very impressed. The music player is the weakest part of the system. It needs more features like:
1) Playlist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Music Shuffle
3) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
Keep up the good work!
1) Playlist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Music Shuffle
3) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
Keep up the good work!
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michael weeks
added a comment - Just purchased a Boxee Box and I am very impressed. The music player is the weakest part of the system. It needs more features like:
1) Playlist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Music Shuffle
3) Additional database filtering: genre, year, recently played, etc.
Keep up the good work!
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
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Thank you for the information. I have forward your feedback to Boxee Product Management.
Issue closed as Incomplete. Issue will not fix now, but may reevaluate later.
We're using JIRA only for Bug reports and Improvements of existing features.
For more information please see Boxee JIRA guidelines at http://boxee.zendesk.com/entries/401218-jira-guidlines
For New Feature Requests, please promote your ideas at http://forums.boxee.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=12 the more votes and views the higher the priority.
Issue closed as Incomplete. Issue will not fix now, but may reevaluate later.
We're using JIRA only for Bug reports and Improvements of existing features.
For more information please see Boxee JIRA guidelines at http://boxee.zendesk.com/entries/401218-jira-guidlines
For New Feature Requests, please promote your ideas at http://forums.boxee.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=12 the more votes and views the higher the priority.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
added a comment - Thank you for the information. I have forward your feedback to Boxee Product Management.
Issue closed as Incomplete. Issue will not fix now, but may reevaluate later.
We're using JIRA only for Bug reports and Improvements of existing features.
For more information please see Boxee JIRA guidelines at http://boxee.zendesk.com/entries/401218-jira-guidlines
For New Feature Requests, please promote your ideas at http://forums.boxee.tv/forumdisplay.php?f=12 the more votes and views the higher the priority.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
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reopen on 1.2.1.20426
This issue is awaiting review from Boxee Product Management.
If you are keen to have this feature implemented, please Comment and Vote for it.
This issue is awaiting review from Boxee Product Management.
If you are keen to have this feature implemented, please Comment and Vote for it.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee]
added a comment - reopen on 1.2.1.20426
This issue is awaiting review from Boxee Product Management.
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Peter Lewis
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+1 from me. One of the reasons I bought the boxee was for it to handle ALL my media, e.g. not just my videos but my pictures and my music. Any improvements to the music player would be great.
Additional Feature: Can we have a button that will blank the screen but leave the music playing until another key press. On a few of my more modern TVs I have this option and its great for listening to music via Boxee, however on my older TVs connected to my boxee's I would love to be able to select music and then immediately blank the screen when I'm ready.
Additional Feature: Can we have a button that will blank the screen but leave the music playing until another key press. On a few of my more modern TVs I have this option and its great for listening to music via Boxee, however on my older TVs connected to my boxee's I would love to be able to select music and then immediately blank the screen when I'm ready.
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Peter Lewis
added a comment - +1 from me. One of the reasons I bought the boxee was for it to handle ALL my media, e.g. not just my videos but my pictures and my music. Any improvements to the music player would be great.
Additional Feature: Can we have a button that will blank the screen but leave the music playing until another key press. On a few of my more modern TVs I have this option and its great for listening to music via Boxee, however on my older TVs connected to my boxee's I would love to be able to select music and then immediately blank the screen when I'm ready.
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Ólafur Nils Sigurðsson
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Similar music functionality as is in xbox media center.. since this is based off the same code i can't understand why this isn't possible!
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Ólafur Nils Sigurðsson
added a comment - Similar music functionality as is in xbox media center.. since this is based off the same code i can't understand why this isn't possible!
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Jairo de Souza
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I bought boxee box mainly for listening music without my pc. I hope boxee box team develop this basic funcionalities for music.
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Jairo de Souza
added a comment - I bought boxee box mainly for listening music without my pc. I hope boxee box team develop this basic funcionalities for music.
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Cleber Neves
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When you get "Music" by selecting "Files" the only avaiable choices in the submenu are "Albums" and "Artists". You can't even browse your collection by genre... Just compare this to what happens when you select "Films", for instance, and two submenus appear: what justifies this difference?
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Cleber Neves
added a comment - When you get "Music" by selecting "Files" the only avaiable choices in the submenu are "Albums" and "Artists". You can't even browse your collection by genre... Just compare this to what happens when you select "Films", for instance, and two submenus appear: what justifies this difference?
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Pete Oliver-Krueger
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Hey all, I'm participating in a Lean Startup workshop this weekend. I'm curious if anyone else would chip in on a bounty, pooling our dollars to encourage the developers to implement this feature request? If you're interested, you can email me at research(at)millionmunkeys.net. If you would chip in, how much is it worth to you to get this feature implemented? If not, would you chip in to get a different feature implemented?
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Pete Oliver-Krueger
added a comment - Hey all, I'm participating in a Lean Startup workshop this weekend. I'm curious if anyone else would chip in on a bounty, pooling our dollars to encourage the developers to implement this feature request? If you're interested, you can email me at research(at)millionmunkeys.net. If you would chip in, how much is it worth to you to get this feature implemented? If not, would you chip in to get a different feature implemented?
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David Kraitberg
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I agree that this should be added to the Boxee Box. Otherwise I love the way it works.
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David Kraitberg
added a comment - I agree that this should be added to the Boxee Box. Otherwise I love the way it works.
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Mark Asmus
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if you have several hundred albums, several thousand songs, probably wouldn't use shuffle all much. but some sort of playlist seems necessary to make the music usable. Even if all you do is add a different view to "sort by folder structure" so that you could create your own "playlist" just by copying the files into their own folders on your harddrive. Then adding shuffle within that folder.
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Mark Asmus
added a comment - if you have several hundred albums, several thousand songs, probably wouldn't use shuffle all much. but some sort of playlist seems necessary to make the music usable. Even if all you do is add a different view to "sort by folder structure" so that you could create your own "playlist" just by copying the files into their own folders on your harddrive. Then adding shuffle within that folder.
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Shawn Determan
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how about we just add apps for our MP3 players such as Music Monkey, WinAmp, etc??
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Shawn Determan
added a comment - how about we just add apps for our MP3 players such as Music Monkey, WinAmp, etc??
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Boxee isn't designed to work with third-party stand-alone programs in a plug-n-play way.
See this post http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=236299#post236299 for some alternatives that do work with Boxee and please follow-up in the forums.
See this post http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=236299#post236299 for some alternatives that do work with Boxee and please follow-up in the forums.
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darcilicious
added a comment - - edited Boxee isn't designed to work with third-party stand-alone programs in a plug-n-play way.
See this post http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=236299#post236299 for some alternatives that do work with Boxee and please follow-up in the forums.
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Paul Niland
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Just got my new boxee box and upgraded to the latest firmware straight away. I was very surprised to see this functionality regressed. Please can you add this to your sprint backlog!!
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Paul Niland
added a comment - Just got my new boxee box and upgraded to the latest firmware straight away. I was very surprised to see this functionality regressed. Please can you add this to your sprint backlog!!
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Daniel Martin
added a comment - Yes please!
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Vincent Edelman
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Why do you keep wanting new comments on this? It's pretty obvious this would be important functionality for the BB and something all of us, including potential buyers, want.
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Vincent Edelman
added a comment - Why do you keep wanting new comments on this? It's pretty obvious this would be important functionality for the BB and something all of us, including potential buyers, want.
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ian boisvert
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Must haves:
- Playlists
- Queuing of tracks/albums to a "Now Playing" Playlist so that I can start listening, browse through the library, and add more tracks to the playlist
- Disable visualization (so my TV will sleep)
Would be really nice:
- All-library shuffle
- Shuffle of tracks in current playlist
- Album and playlist repeat option
Nice to have:
- Ratings for tracks that affects the likelihood a track will get played in shuffle mode
- Visualization that shows random photos
Thanks.
- Playlists
- Queuing of tracks/albums to a "Now Playing" Playlist so that I can start listening, browse through the library, and add more tracks to the playlist
- Disable visualization (so my TV will sleep)
Would be really nice:
- All-library shuffle
- Shuffle of tracks in current playlist
- Album and playlist repeat option
Nice to have:
- Ratings for tracks that affects the likelihood a track will get played in shuffle mode
- Visualization that shows random photos
Thanks.
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ian boisvert
added a comment - Must haves:
- Playlists
- Queuing of tracks/albums to a "Now Playing" Playlist so that I can start listening, browse through the library, and add more tracks to the playlist
- Disable visualization (so my TV will sleep)
Would be really nice:
- All-library shuffle
- Shuffle of tracks in current playlist
- Album and playlist repeat option
Nice to have:
- Ratings for tracks that affects the likelihood a track will get played in shuffle mode
- Visualization that shows random photos
Thanks.
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Claes Josefsson
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I've been looking for a JIRA ticket just like this. Thanks for posting
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Claes Josefsson
added a comment - I've been looking for a JIRA ticket just like this. Thanks for posting
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Göran Axel Johannesson
added a comment - +10 This is basic stuff!
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Nigel Llewellyn
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Ditto for the above.....All of the competitors have better music functionality
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Nigel Llewellyn
added a comment - Ditto for the above.....All of the competitors have better music functionality
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Fernando Derkoski
added a comment - +1
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Eric Van Boven
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According the last fireside chat this option will never happen. Boxee believes music and photos are less important than video and dedicated themselves to the video portion. Mainly to do with local content as the world is shifting to cloud.
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Eric Van Boven
added a comment - According the last fireside chat this option will never happen. Boxee believes music and photos are less important than video and dedicated themselves to the video portion. Mainly to do with local content as the world is shifting to cloud.
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darcilicious
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I guess I'll be putting a Roku 2 XS in the bedroom and accessing my local music via Plex which actually does music right. Sigh.
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darcilicious
added a comment - I guess I'll be putting a Roku 2 XS in the bedroom and accessing my local music via Plex which actually does music right. Sigh.
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Klaas Tammling
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I thought I can use boxee to play ALL my media on my Onkyo. However if it isn't even possible to shuffle my music or start a random play :-/
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Klaas Tammling
added a comment - I thought I can use boxee to play ALL my media on my Onkyo. However if it isn't even possible to shuffle my music or start a random play :-/
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Dylan King
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This improvement should be priority number 1. With such a great product, to have the limited functionality that the music player has is an embarrassment.
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Dylan King
added a comment - This improvement should be priority number 1. With such a great product, to have the limited functionality that the music player has is an embarrassment.
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Jim Radcliffe
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Yeah I'd be real keen to see this implemented too! Love the boxee but music playing is painful with current limitations. Bring it on!!!
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Jim Radcliffe
added a comment - Yeah I'd be real keen to see this implemented too! Love the boxee but music playing is painful with current limitations. Bring it on!!!
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Phat Phreddy
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This is ending up to be the 'deal killer' which will push me away from boxee as a system of nodes in a villa setup.. Theres lots of little things I would like to see worked on (shared database solutions, pause on one boxee resume on another, whole house audio sync.. etc) but all are little polish aspects and I admit are more for the multi boxee user more.
But the lack of something as simple and basic as a good music player, is simply astounding. No other words.
Looks like I need to go to xtreamer to get my one box solution.. Which I would rather not.
But the lack of something as simple and basic as a good music player, is simply astounding. No other words.
Looks like I need to go to xtreamer to get my one box solution.. Which I would rather not.
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Phat Phreddy
added a comment - This is ending up to be the 'deal killer' which will push me away from boxee as a system of nodes in a villa setup.. Theres lots of little things I would like to see worked on (shared database solutions, pause on one boxee resume on another, whole house audio sync.. etc) but all are little polish aspects and I admit are more for the multi boxee user more.
But the lack of something as simple and basic as a good music player, is simply astounding. No other words.
Looks like I need to go to xtreamer to get my one box solution.. Which I would rather not.
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Mark Haller
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I've stopped playing my own music on the Boxee as the interface/functionality is just so poor, and now use Spotify on it instead. I came here looking to see if such a request had been made.
+1 from me.
+1 from me.
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Mark Haller
added a comment - I've stopped playing my own music on the Boxee as the interface/functionality is just so poor, and now use Spotify on it instead. I came here looking to see if such a request had been made.
+1 from me.
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Simon Rackliff
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I have to agree, that the Video management is amazing on this box, but by comparison the Music management is like going back to the 90s. A similar Music interface, you would think would be much easier than for Movies given the amount of database support for albumn and track information.
It is incredibly disappointing, as it stops the box from being my main media hub.
Please fix
It is incredibly disappointing, as it stops the box from being my main media hub.
Please fix
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Simon Rackliff
added a comment - I have to agree, that the Video management is amazing on this box, but by comparison the Music management is like going back to the 90s. A similar Music interface, you would think would be much easier than for Movies given the amount of database support for albumn and track information.
It is incredibly disappointing, as it stops the box from being my main media hub.
Please fix
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