Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thanks for the comment, LNXGoat! I admire someone who can decide what they want to listen to 7 minutes in advance, let alone 7 days!!!! But seriously, this is a great illustration as to why my important parameters may not be that important for someone else. I've yet to find myself in a position where I've been tempted to curate playlists.
I really appreciate you offering this alternative view; thanks again!
Thank you for your comments zerrax. I'd like to point out a few things in response to some of your points. First, the album art falls into two of my categories: cover art and overall organization. Second, I see the Android app (at least, a client control app) as being more relevant when we speak of a music server (like MPD) running on a dedicated device. I'm thinking about how to deal with that environment and I don't think I will use the same six criteria. Third, at this stage I'm kind of a PCM / FLAC guy, so I haven't invested a lot of time in figuring out DSD; if I could only find something I wanted on DSD, I would convert it to a high-resolution FLAC format (and this has only happened once to me so far).
As to sound quality of the player, I have to confess I haven't approached that level of refinement yet; I'm basically at the stage of being satisfied with the player providing the bitstream (via ALSA) as-is to the DAC.
And as to avoiding ALSA (which by the way I don't think is crappy at all), I'm not sure how you would propose to get the bitstream directly out to the device. Could you elaborate?