Re: searching functionality

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your response. The "Search Computer for Music" functionality 
is not what I'm looking for. I listen to my music from work off of my 
computer at home, and I have it all on a web server for accessibility. I 
have a cronjob which automatically generates playlists from the files 
that are there, and I have a very large CD collection which I have 
encoded. So at any rate, I have some very large playlists of streaming 
media. Being able to do keyword searches through playlists is pretty 
much the only way to conveniently listen to the music on those 
playlists. By far and away most graphical mp3 players support this (i.e. 
the j key in Winamp or xmms). For me to use Zinf this functionality is 
essential.

There were some other features that I thought would be cool:

- Caching the ID3/track info for streaming media files to add them to 
the media library.
- Being able to do text keyword searches of the items already in the 
library would be very helpful as well, in the case that i was using Zinf 
at home directly on the files.

I wasn't able to check if Zinf was able to do this or not, but this 
would be good as well:
- HTTP 1.1 queuing of mp3 files
- HTTP 1.1 queuing of ogg files
(making the positional bar work)

As an aside, I think Zinf really has a lot of potential. Taking things 
back to basics is a good idea. The newest release of Winamp is 
absolutely horrid, and terribly slow. I think a lot of people are 
unhappy with it and are looking for alternatives. I think Zinf isn't 
that far from filling that void.

Regards,
Tom

Brian Marshall wrote:
> Look under My Music=>File=>Search computer for music.
> Cheers
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas C.
> Meggs
> Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 11:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Zinf-users] searching functionality
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Zinf, and I was very suprised that I didn't see any 
> searching functionality for the media library or playlists. Am I missing
> 
> something?
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 




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