On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 27 Aug 2008, at 17:14, Joshua Juran wrote:
I'll concede that yes, it has a queue internally, but one which is
permanently hard-wired to the Shuffle randomizer and fails to
offer the behavior I expect such as stopping on empty.
Tell it to take its input from an empty smart playlist.
Hot damn, that actually works. It doesn't even need to be a smart
playlist; a regular empty one will do.
I thought all this time Apple was trying to protect me from Unix, and
it turns out the solution is /dev/null.
However, populating the queue requires browsing under Library->Music,
which changes the Pause button to Stop. So I have to remember
whether I'm in Library->Music or Playlists->Party Shuffle, and in the
former case make sure to use the Front Row remote to pause instead of
the space bar.
Bummer about the iPod, though.
Josh
