I have had great luck with migrating to web based solution which allows all my normal functionality in an interface that is platform independant and a backend that is more robust than any other standalone app I've used. Check it out at Jinzora.org And here's a working demo using the old "netjuke" styled interface
If this doesn't solve it for you then you are asking for too much ;)
Ah, the "thin cient" approach. (Hmm. As it is, 98% of the time all I have running on any of my Windows machines are web browsers and telnet; occasionally I fire up an X server, or Word Perfect or Excel. When I want to edit images I run Gimp on a Linux box via X.)
In the past I've been very unhappy with the web-based apps I've tried (even Gmail). But with the backend in my house instead of on the other side of a modem, and for an application from which I already expect "appliance-like" behaviour instead of "let me wield this tool" interaction ... that just might work. I was already planning to store the MP3 files themselves on my file server so as to have access anywhere in the house; your suggestion would mean the playlists and metadata would be centralized as well.
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Check it out at Jinzora.org
And here's a working demo using the old "netjuke" styled interface
If this doesn't solve it for you then you are asking for too much ;)
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In the past I've been very unhappy with the web-based apps I've tried (even Gmail). But with the backend in my house instead of on the other side of a modem, and for an application from which I already expect "appliance-like" behaviour instead of "let me wield this tool" interaction ... that just might work. I was already planning to store the MP3 files themselves on my file server so as to have access anywhere in the house; your suggestion would mean the playlists and metadata would be centralized as well.
I wonder whether it'll talk to an iPod.