I know this is quite an old post, but I think I have encountered a similar
problem. I wanted to create a fairly long playlist (180 odd) and randomise
the play order but without repeating any entries in the list. I found that
using the clementine shuffle mode seemed for some reason to repeat some
tracks before many of the others had been played. I suspect this is a pure
random selection (ie. true random selection does not preclude a repeat
selection) but this is not what I wanted. After much deliberation and
tinkering I concluded the best way to achieve what I wanted was to first
create and save a playlist, then use an external program to "randomise it's
order so I could just play the list from start to end without needing the
clementine shuffle mode. Failing to find anything to achieve this I wrote a
simple script to "shuffle" a saved clementine xspf playlist. It could
probably be tidied up further, but for anyone interested I've copied it
below...
# Script to shuffle the tracks in an xspf playlist.
#
# Place this scriptfile into the directory in which the playlist
# .xspf files reside.
#
# invoke the script in a shell command window as follows...
# change directory to the folder holding the playlist (and this
# script).
#
# Useage: ./shuffle.sh <infile> <outfile>
#
# Where <infile> is the name of the playlist you wish to shuffle
# and <outfile> is the name you wish to give to the shuffled playlist.
#
INFILE=$1
OUTFILE=$2
#
echo "Input from $INFILE"
#
head -n 3 $INFILE > $OUTFILE # Write header records to outfile
#
# Use awk program to place all track records on single lines to
# make it possile for shuf to be used to shuffle the list.
awk '
{
if (NR < 4 ){ next}
if ( $1 == "</trackList>" || $1 == "</playlist>" ) { next }
if ( $1 == "</track>" ) { sub(/ +/,"") ;printf "%s\n",$0; next }
if ( $1 != "</track>" ){ sub(/ +/,"") ;printf "%s",$0; next }
}
' $INFILE | shuf >> $OUTFILE # Extract tracklist, shuffle it and append to
outfile
#
RECORDS=$(wc -l $OUTFILE | awk '{print $1}') # Count records
let "RECORDS = $RECORDS - 3 " # Adjust for header records
echo $RECORDS records shuffled into $OUTFILE # Report number of shuffled
records
#
tail -n 2 $INFILE >> $OUTFILE # Add end of trackList and end of playlist
markers.
Hope this may be of use to anyone needing a similar facility.
(note: each time the script is run a different order will be achieved)
On Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:54:12 UTC, Cornel Diaconu wrote:
>
> HI,
> I had a very strange and annoying situation with my Clementine 1.3.1
> installed on my Opensuse 15.0 box (Clementine is installed from Opensuse's
> repository).
> I load in the player a number of music files (almost entirely mp3) and
> build up a list that should rarely reaches 14 hours.
>
> I start play and when I check the player again after some 15 hours passed,
> almost always the play is still on, and a serious bunch of files are not
> yet played (not only it did not finish in 14 hours as it should, it's still
> playing after 15 hours, and it's not even at the last file in the playlist)
> !
>
> So, it seems Clementine is re-playing some files, but I wasn't able to
> grasp which ones, at what particular rhythm is does this strange re-play.
> The thing is that those double plays are not scrobbled twice on last.fm,
> but only once (at least this is normal) !
>
> I believe that it's related to the last.fm plugin, but can't put the
> finger on what exactly; anyway, I can't really give up on this plugin,
> since it's mandatory for me that all plays should be scrobbled !
>
> Some time ago (1-2 years back, I thought that it's related to some heavy
> disk activity on my system (like rsync-ying some folders over night, and
> thus getting in the way of normal functioning of Clementine); but I'm not
> so sure anymore - it's happening almost daily, and with or without such
> disk activity.
>
> This turned out so annoying that I decided to ask here: did anyone else
> has this problem ?
>
>
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