Quoting dip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Dan Sully Wrote:
> > * dip shaped the electrons to say...
> >
> > >The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to
> > restrict
> > >the selection (of the tracks, album or artist) to specific genres.
> >
> > At this point - you're better off using MusicMagic for this type of
> > feature.
> >
> Do I really need MusicMagic for this?
> I simply want to random play ALL my songs except classical, audio books
> and children's songs.

I believe the real key part of what Dan said was: "at this point".  Try as you
might with the current plugin, you can't select genre. It wasn't worth the
effort to create a whole architecture inside a plugin to handle all of that.

MusicMagic can do what you want "Right Now" (tm), by using the filter features.
They ahve already done the heavy lifting, as it were, to create a mix function
with some intelligence.

That being said, I'm still liking the idea of accepting a list as input to the
plugin, but how that can be implemented is still unknown.  I'm going to sit
back and see what Dan does with the integration.  Then, if something comes to
mind that would be a simple (read: quick) fix, then I'll put forth a patch. If
I have no clear idea, or it will take too long, I'll simply leave it for
another time when there aren't other higher priorities.  I can't speak for
Dan's plans but looking at the bug list, I'd guess he's fairly overloaded as
well.

Even if such a feature does come along, I expect MusicMagic will always offer
far more control than Random Play. If what you want is truly as simple as
"anything that's not books, childrens or classical" then I can say that I
certainly plan to try to implement such a thing.

-kdf--
NOT a Slim Devices employee
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