Many people have setups where shuffling all their tracks takes a long time. I used to find it would take around 30 seconds from pressing Play on All Songs to the first song starting. The RandomPlay plugin fixes this, and keeps the history of played songs. You can configure how many "future" tracks to display, but it defaults to 9. But there's more:
It will pick an album at random and play it (in normal order), then when it's done pick another one. It will pick an artist at random and play all their tracks then, when they're done, pick another one. Currently, they are played in album order. I'm wondering as I write this whether they should be played in random order. You can't do the above two without the plugin. Also, RandomMix gives a nice, quick interface to random songs. The other way can be a bit non-intuitive. However, it's stil "the other way" - RandomMix is a plugin, and can be disabled by those that don't want it. My plans for the future are to add genre selection to the random play plugin. You should be able to select the genres that you want included (or conversely excluded) from a list of genres and then have all the above options only pick from those genres. This allows the exclusion of spoken word, kids music, seasonal music etc. At that point, I imagine quite a few people will take interest. ;-) Probably before then (as it's easier and I'm learning Perl and SlimServer at the same time here) I want to add a Random Year Mix, where it picks a year, plays all the tracks from that year, then picks another one. Max orrinc Wrote: > I'm still not understanding the difference between the plugin and > "standard" shuffle mode . . . -- 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
