Managing Online Sources - What's your opinion!
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:20 amManaging Online Sources - What's your opinion!
There are a lot of online sources available..just see the list from martyn under Internet Resources/Video. He has 12 categories with more than 100 available rss feeds. Sites like youtube add multiple feeds for its various standard feeds and users custom searches or playlist access,
Unfortunately there is no way to organize these by category when added in Serviio because new feeds are just added sequentially to the existing list, and there is no folder facility which creates a huge random mumbojumbo on the menu.
Add to this the support of livestreams and webpages coming in the next release, where every new stream will add a new menu item following all the rss items, so we looking at an even larger sequentially ordered menu.
Currently the only way to manage the feeds in a particular order is to maintain a list of the url's off line in your desired order and then clear the console list and repost the feeds. This is clearly impractical in a dynamic environment.
I would like to advocate for the addition of the following features to Serviio to help this in the shortterm and solve it in longterm. However given all the other priorities that zip has, this will need some support from other users to raise their implementation priority.
I'm suggesting a 4 stage implementation:
1) Change the behaviour of the console online sources "Add" button to add the new entry above the currently highlighted item if any rather than at the end of the list. This would allow the immediate ordering of the list in a preferred order as added or by copy/delete/add of existing items.
2) Add "Move Up", "Move Down" buttons to relocate existing items within the list. This facilitates long term management.
3) Add an "Add Folder" button with "Name" for insertion above the current highlited item. This creates a simple 2 level hierarcy which is adequate for most people. Items above the first "Folder" would remain at level 1, but it would be best if the folders displayed in the menu listing first.
4) Add an "Add Subfolder" button with "Name" for insertion within any Folder above the current highlighted item, to provide a 3rd level for those needing a complex hierarchy.
These would give an immediate management capability, with more advanced features staged as zip's resources allows.
Please post your feedback regarding the need for and priority of these features. Thanks.
There are a lot of online sources available..just see the list from martyn under Internet Resources/Video. He has 12 categories with more than 100 available rss feeds. Sites like youtube add multiple feeds for its various standard feeds and users custom searches or playlist access,
Unfortunately there is no way to organize these by category when added in Serviio because new feeds are just added sequentially to the existing list, and there is no folder facility which creates a huge random mumbojumbo on the menu.
Add to this the support of livestreams and webpages coming in the next release, where every new stream will add a new menu item following all the rss items, so we looking at an even larger sequentially ordered menu.
Currently the only way to manage the feeds in a particular order is to maintain a list of the url's off line in your desired order and then clear the console list and repost the feeds. This is clearly impractical in a dynamic environment.
I would like to advocate for the addition of the following features to Serviio to help this in the shortterm and solve it in longterm. However given all the other priorities that zip has, this will need some support from other users to raise their implementation priority.
I'm suggesting a 4 stage implementation:
1) Change the behaviour of the console online sources "Add" button to add the new entry above the currently highlighted item if any rather than at the end of the list. This would allow the immediate ordering of the list in a preferred order as added or by copy/delete/add of existing items.
2) Add "Move Up", "Move Down" buttons to relocate existing items within the list. This facilitates long term management.
3) Add an "Add Folder" button with "Name" for insertion above the current highlited item. This creates a simple 2 level hierarcy which is adequate for most people. Items above the first "Folder" would remain at level 1, but it would be best if the folders displayed in the menu listing first.
4) Add an "Add Subfolder" button with "Name" for insertion within any Folder above the current highlighted item, to provide a 3rd level for those needing a complex hierarchy.
These would give an immediate management capability, with more advanced features staged as zip's resources allows.
Please post your feedback regarding the need for and priority of these features. Thanks.