While we're on the topic of enhancements, something that I haven't
seen on any player, and that I would find incredibly useful, is the
ability when in random play to easily "lock" playback to a specific
album or artist.
For example, you are listening to random playback via the usual means
(browsing, playlists, whatever). A song comes on that really catches
your mood. With a single button press you could then constrain the
subsequent tracks to be the remaining songs (in order) on the album
the track is from ("album lock"), or with a different button press you
could constrain subsequent tracks to those only by the same artist as
("artist lock"). These modes would be a toggle - when you are tired of
exploiting your transient whim, you could revert back to purely random
play with another button press.
Since it can be hard to know one's mood in advance, and more so, how
it responds to various music as it's randomly presented, the ability
to lock onto something good when it appears and prolong the experience
IMHO would be a truly valuable (and at the present time unique)
feature. When listening in random play mode I regularly wish I had
this feature!
Nico
Dan Sully writes:
> * Ert shaped the electrons to say...
>> Frequently, I find I am listening to one artist/album/playlist on
>> shuffle and want to stop and start listening to a new
>> artist/album/playlist. However, I really don't want to just stop
>> the music in the middle of a song, mainly because other people in
>> the house listening find it annoying to have a song suddenly end in
>> the middle. I find myself trying to time my use of the remote with
>> the end of the current song, which is a pain.
>>
>> I would really like a way to change the playlist to something else,
>> but still have the current song finish playing instead of having it
>> stop as soon as it is removed from the current playlist. Is there a
>> good way to effect such a transition? Something obvious I just
>> missed in recent server releases?
> Sounds like a great idea - could you file a enhancment bug? Thanks.
> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/
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