LesPaul
I am struggling with only one aspect of your app.
The search.
Please help me understand how to search for a title and be assured that it is by the artist I am looking for.
Example:
Two ways to look - search and artist
Artist-When looking for "crazy" by patsy cline, in JRemote I did the artist>P>find Patsy cline> now I have 15 albums, not knowing which contains "crazy".
Search-gives me all "crazy", but does not tell me the artist.
The only piece jremote is missing is the ability to quickly find a specific song and select it to play (next, end, replace)
It would be nice if you could search for patsy cline "crazy" and get only songs starting with crazy that are sung by patsy cline.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to do that.
Maybe I am asking for too much, but without a good search system, it is very difficult to find the song requested to play.
With BitRemote (I know, it is discontinued), you could go to search>"crazy">select from drop down (artist, album, search all, title)>next drop down (starts with, any word)>last drop down (show songs, show albums). So, I select search>"crazy">title>starts with>show songs. this gives me (in my case) 180 results with the first 49 being songs titled "crazy" only - with the artist for each of those. not able to see the album for Crazy, but at least getting one of the songs for Patsy Cline "crazy". and adding it to the que or to "next to play".
BitRemote lacked a lot of functionality, but it did have an excellent search argument.
I'm just saying JRemote is fast, sexy, but no really good search function (that I can find) making it hard to use as a jukebox type app. say for a party where you are selecting songs per request to add to the "Playing now".
Perhaps a series of pull downs:
(search argument)>(title, artist, album)>(starts with,or includes, or ?)>(show songs, show albums, show artists)>show listings alphabetic by search argument. Just an example:
If someone out there has a good way to find a song for a particular artist in JRemote I would love to hear how you do it.
Thanks for your time
TxGary