Yannzola;229616 Wrote: 
> Thanks!
> "Top Rated" should include both 4 and 5 rated items (correct?). What
> I'm wondering is if it could pull randomly from =both= 4 and 5's
> instead of only pulling from 5's. Make sense? 
> 
I wonder if it would be better if you created a playlist manually in
SQL Playlist plugin for this.

With the "Advanced with rating" playlist template in SQL Playlist
plugin, you can create a playlist with random tracks with a minimum
rating of 4.

With the "TrackStat Top rated xxx" playlist templates in the SQL
Playlist plugin, you can create a playlist with random 400 top rated
tracks without affecting other playlists.

I don't think changing the behaviour on the built in "Top rated"
playlists available automatically like this would be a good idea. The
reason is that some users are going to expect it to play the tracks
each rating at the time. Personally I only use the rating values 4 3
and 2, which means that 4 is the good songs, other people might use the
ratings differently. So making the default "Top rated" playlist randomly
mix about the 2000 tracks that have ratings 4 or 5 might not fit for
everyone.

In the future, the plan is that it should be easy to create a SQL
Playlist based on the TrackStat dynamic playlist, this way you can
create your own customized version. But this will not be available in a
TrackStat version for SlimServer 6.5.

Yannzola;229616 Wrote: 
> Thanks!
> > erland;229518 Wrote: 
> > > > Yannzola;229482 Wrote: 
> > > Just curious if I can adjust a setting to help alleviate this problem.
> > > When new songs are added dynamically to the end of a  Dynamic Playlist,
> > > my player freezes momentarily (buffer underrun?). This only occurs while
> > > playing FLAC's... MP3's are no problem.
> > > > > > > Is this a problem with all dynamic playlists or just some ?
> > > > 
> All of them.
> 
Just to be sure, when the player freezes, does this also mean that the
sound stops ? Or is it just the player interface that freezes ?
If the problem is just in the interface I don't think it will be worth
doing anything about it, the reason is simply that in this case there
will be a freeze, so it's just a matter of when it happens.

If the sound stops, this is a problem. Do you have the same problem
with the standard Random Mix plugin ?

It works perfectly in my own setup, so I think the reason it appears
for you is related to the SlimServer hardware, the network performance,
library size and playlist complexity.

Has this problem been here all the time or has it started in one of the
later releases ? If it has started in the later releases, have anything
else also changed in your setup or is it just the plugins that have new
versions ?


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erland

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