Tagging classical music

[DavidHB]

(18-04-2014 14:11)magister Wrote:  I've been interested in Bubble but I don't own an Android tablet. I might invest in one, but before doing that I'd like to get a little more information. Perhaps David or someone else can help out.

The control point I use most often, PS Audio's eLyric (designed to work with my PS Audio dac), has one very useful feature not usually found elsewhere: it displays the top level of the browse tree at the left of the screen. This is helpful because when selecting music I often drill down four or five levels (e.g., composer - subgenre - composition - conductor). Some control points make me tap the 'Back' button four or five times to get back to the top, whereas with eLyric I can tap directly on a different composer, using the convenient tree at the left. Tapping that 'Back' button repeatedly gets annoying. How does this work with Bubble?

Firstly if you are thinking of trying out an Android tablet, you may wish to be reminded of these differences from iOS:

• Android in its native form (particularly on Google's own Nexus devices) is designed to work with Google's ecosystem, and expects you to have and use a Google account (I had one, so the transition was not an issue for me);
• Manufacturers customise Android, so one device does not necessarily look like another (try before you buy);
• 3rd party manufacturers tend to lock their devices to particular versions of Android, and I would not myself purchase a version earlier than 4.2; Google allow updates to their devices.
  

I am not familiar with the eLyric control point, but I believe that Bubble has a somewhat similar feature to the one you describe. Long-clicking on the Android back button takes you immediately to the MinimServer root display, thereby avoiding multiple tapping. What this cannot do, of course, is take you to a particular intermediate point, but (if I have understood correctly) I don't think eLyric does this, either.

Quote:I take advantage of MinimServer's tag formatting capabilities to show the name of the conductor along with the orchestra. Some control points, such as Kinsky, display this as they should, while others just ignore it. Does Bubble implement this feature of MinimServer?

Yes it does.

My current tagFormat settings are:

ComposerSort.displayFormat={$composer},Title.displayFormat={$composer$title^^^: }

Bubble fully respects both of these.

Quote:Finally, David mentions the lack of a good remote for foobar2000. I recently discovered MonkeyMote 4 foobar. I have it on my iPad and it seems quite decent, in the limited testing I've done -- I'm not sure if it's available for Android but it might be. Even though it's not my main player (that's MinimSever ), foobar is useful for various things and it's nice to have a remote.

Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, MonkeyMote does not appear on the Google Play store.

David