I agree, I think that the random mix plugin should keep the
previously played songs in the playlist and add new songs to the end
as it goes.
On Sep 17, 2005, at 8:53 AM, max.spicer wrote:
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
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