The Useless "Info" Link In Songs

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Gordon Delgado
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This link takes you to last.fm which does nothing except regurgitate the song title and artist, along with a wallop of ads and clickbait.

Why not present more meaningful information, which is already available to BluOS but never presented to the user? For example:

  • Date (from ID3v2)
  • Genre (from ID3v2)
  • Track length (calculated)
  • Track number (from ID3v2)
  • Encoding (flac, wav, mp3, etc)
  • Bitrate (calculated)
  • Composer (from ID3v2)

There may be many additional tags which could also be displayed in freeform. For instance I add a "Country" tag (using KID3) which states ocountry of origin of the music. There are many other possibilities...

Hey! Now the "info" can be useful!

 

 

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    Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Gordon

    Thank you for your feedback. The information you are looking for is available under Track Info. Many consumers actually use Last.FM as a way to discover more music by an artist or even similar artists.

     

  • Gordon Delgado

    Hi Tony, I must disagree.

    The "Technical Info" only shows path and encoding/bitrate. None of the other attributes are present.

    BTW, how can you claim that "Many consumers actually use Last.FM as a way to discover more music"? Do you know this for a fact; are you tracking your customers clicks?

     

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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Gordon

    We rely on multiple channels, this site, support requests, dealer and distributor to collect anecdotal feedback.

    We do cross reference this with metrics provided. BluOS Players will also randomly generate a report key on boot. If a positive key is generated (currently 1:5 or about 20% of Players - this number is reviewed and changed periodically - it has ever only gone down) the player will anonymously report country of origin (by ISP's registered IP), playback time and music source (by service or if local content or input source) and if the Player is grouped. No user specific data is captured.

    You may opt out at any time by selecting Help, Diagnostics and turning off Statistics Collection.

     

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  • Jim McIntyre

    It would be nice to have an option to go to someplace like Discogs that has more useful information. 

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  • Jim McIntyre

    Still waiting for a link to some useful information about the album & artists. Last.fm is USELESS for anything except I suppose some pop stuff. It gives nothing on jazz or classical albums or artists. Please at least give us an option to link to something USEFUL like Discogs or Allmusic or even the txt files many of us have stored in the album folder. 

    Thanks

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  • Jonas Josefsson

    Yes. The link to last.fm is useless to many. Make it possible to change. Consider the suggestions and don't be rude.

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  • Derek Stratton

    LOL five years!

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