> What's all the shouting for about the RandomPlay plugin?

It's great :-)

> What does it give me that I didn't have before?

Quick access to a random selection of songs. Shuffle the whole
collection would often block the server.

> As far as I can tell, it gives me a
> way of playing ten tracks at random, and that's it.  I can't add
> another
> ten tracks until the first ten have finished playing.

Of course you do! I think this behaviour is configurable. But normally
it will remove a song once it has been played and add another one at
the playlist's end. It therefore will play forever.

> How is this
> better than the current random functionality?

It's much faster.

> A more general issue that's been bugging me for a while is how
> plugins
> are integrated into the main SlimServer distribution and released
> with
> it.  Surely, once a feature is deemed good enough to become part of
> the
> core distribution it should cease to be a plugin, or at least its
> plugin nature should be hidden from the user.

Nope. Plugins add functionality that everybody doesn't need. Disable it
and gain some free memory, remove complexity and possible source of
problems. I never had any issue with iTunes or MusicMagic integration.
They can be as buggy as they wont to be, I don't (have to) care -
because I don't use those plugins ;-).

--

Michael

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