I've been giving the Random Mix plugin a try recently and have come up with something that I think could be improved, so thought I'd post here to see if anyone else agreed. Basically, I like the way that the SB2 does random play without the plugin. However, the lack of threading in SlimServer means that when I put all my music on shuffle, I have to wait at least 30 seconds before the first song starts (ideally it would pick one song at random, start it playing immediately then get on with picking the rest). Random Mix doesn't have this problem, which is why it's attractive. However, I'm not a fan of the way that Random Mix picks ten songs to play, then the moment the one song finishes, removes it from the head of the playlist and adds another one to the end. This means that you lose your history of played songs. With the standard shuffle behaviour, I really like the way that you can listen to an evening's worth of music and then go back and see what you were listening to. This is particularly useful if you aren't able to always check what is currently playing (think party). Rather than always keeping ten songs in the playlist by deleting any that have been played, could the random mix plugin not just append new tracks to the end of the list? Would this be possible, or does it go against the whole philosophy of the plugin?
I suppose what I'm really trying to do is use the plugin to fix the inconvienient behavior of shuffle. That sounds like a whinge, but it isn't meant to be one. I'd just like to see any possible ways of getting shuffling to work better. I imagine that a threaded server would be something of a major rewrite. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
