2011-12-08, 00:41
Hey,
Big fan of XBMC and currently running it on OpenElec. I have been using XBMC for ages, since it first appeared on the Xbox.
Recently I did have a Boxee box at home and while I liked some things I felt it was quite limited and I ended up getting the Asus Eee Box and installed OpenElec on that (tried Win7 and Ubuntu before that, but too much hassle compared to the Xbox). With OpenElec I like how it just boots and that's it, you're ready to go.
One major feature that I liked about Boxee and many of my other systems I use today Xbox 360 (Metro), Synology NAS etc is a global search feature, just making everything a bit more accessible.
I have tried but in the current format I will never be able to get my friends to play music in XBMC. It's just too much of a hassle; enter music library press right or whatever, choose the search button and enter your search criteria, then choose the result. To play all from one artist you have to enter a sub-menu and select play, to queue you have to enter a sub-menu. There's no option to get more tracks from the same artist, you can't instantly queue or star tracks it's all hidden.
On the Boxee I could just start typing and it started a search over all different types of media, nicely categorized and tabbed and you could take it from there.
Now when ppl come over they mostly use just spotify anyway, but I want to try and shift over from that, and with the Spotify compile it becomes even more relevant just to make XBMC an end-user product, not too advanced. Yes it plays basically everything I throw at it, but without usability, what is that good for?
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone else experienced the same frustrations?
I'm was on the Aoen MQ2 skin, before that I was on the Xeebo (wich was as close to the user friendly features I got) and now I'm on Quartz.
Maybe just a skinning issue and I'm missing something?
Thanks.
Big fan of XBMC and currently running it on OpenElec. I have been using XBMC for ages, since it first appeared on the Xbox.
Recently I did have a Boxee box at home and while I liked some things I felt it was quite limited and I ended up getting the Asus Eee Box and installed OpenElec on that (tried Win7 and Ubuntu before that, but too much hassle compared to the Xbox). With OpenElec I like how it just boots and that's it, you're ready to go.
One major feature that I liked about Boxee and many of my other systems I use today Xbox 360 (Metro), Synology NAS etc is a global search feature, just making everything a bit more accessible.
I have tried but in the current format I will never be able to get my friends to play music in XBMC. It's just too much of a hassle; enter music library press right or whatever, choose the search button and enter your search criteria, then choose the result. To play all from one artist you have to enter a sub-menu and select play, to queue you have to enter a sub-menu. There's no option to get more tracks from the same artist, you can't instantly queue or star tracks it's all hidden.
On the Boxee I could just start typing and it started a search over all different types of media, nicely categorized and tabbed and you could take it from there.
Now when ppl come over they mostly use just spotify anyway, but I want to try and shift over from that, and with the Spotify compile it becomes even more relevant just to make XBMC an end-user product, not too advanced. Yes it plays basically everything I throw at it, but without usability, what is that good for?
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone else experienced the same frustrations?
I'm was on the Aoen MQ2 skin, before that I was on the Xeebo (wich was as close to the user friendly features I got) and now I'm on Quartz.
Maybe just a skinning issue and I'm missing something?
Thanks.