On December 22, 2006 at 10:55, BrianJohnHunt said...
Hi,
I have a large music collection and have noticed a few
problems;
1. In the Escient Transport Screen you can only browse
to 9999 items. I have over 17,000 tracks so cannot list
by song name.
2. Is there anyway to add an extra screen so that the
digits are available? I would like to be able to use
the abd, def ... functions to go directly to the artists/songs
that begin with that letter. I guess I could set up playlists
to do this, but it would be great if I could do this on
the fly as then I would not need to mess around with the
playlists every time I add new music. Using the Escient
Web interface or TV screens is a total drag when you have
a large music collection.
3. This may be an issue with the Escient, but is there
a way to add a function for 'Add to playing now'? I use
this function a lot to queue music as I am listening (on
my MCE PC). I haven't yet found how to do this directly
on the Escient, so perhaps it's not available. I would
also like to edit the playing now list as well - don't
want much do I ;-)
Anyone have any ideas?
The screens provided as standard are not quite there -
I was hoping that they may be more 'Sonos' like in their
operation. Anyone know if new screens are being developed?
I have an Escient Fireball SE 160i by the way.
Regards
Brian (London, UK)
Brian,
As for the question number 3 above, there is not currently a way to do what I think you are asking for but there will be soon. Escient showed a feature called Jukebox at CEDIA that allows you to queue selections for sequenced playback while playing other music. It allows you to make selections to be played later in the order selected (or random if desired) like a jukebox would. This function will be included in an update for current product that should be released in early 2007 (according to Escient). It is already included in the new AVX and MX series product. Currently they only support a favorites playlist which you can add a title to by simply pressing the favorites button while the title is being played.
