Erland, Well, to put it in another way: most of the times I am just interested in simply playing random songs within a certain genre (I have created about 50 in my tags). In the standard Slimserver setup this is done in just a few button clicks: Browse->Genre->"Latin" (for example)->Play.
For this, I am not in the specific need of Dynamic Playlists or whatsoever. However, this straight forward way only works fine as long as the total number of songs in the genre is somewhat limited, due to the fact Slimserver, as programmed until now, will generate the full playlist in advance. The Dynamic Playlist / SQL Playlist plugin works smarter/quicker, i.e. it generates the playlist "on the run". However, working with Dynamic Playlist in combination with Custom Browse simply means more hassle: Browse->Genre->"Latin"->Play+hold->Random. The above made me wonder why the standard Slimserver setup could not be programmed such that it always generates playlists "on the run", i.e. without the specific need to install full featured plug-ins. (Don't get me wrong: I admire your plugin work and I am a satisfied user of many of them) Additionally, I found something strange in the way my Play+hold Random selection works. Currently I have Dynamic Playlists and SQLPlaylists installed and enabled the four pre-programmed Random Playlists (Random Albums, Random Artists, Random Songs, Random Years). When I press Play+hold in a certain genre and scroll to Random, I cannot select anything more. When I press the right arrow it will start playing a random playlist of 20 selected songs in the genre (after 20 songs it stops). Alternatively, when I press the Play button, it will start a random playlist of all the songs in the genre (i.e. just the way the standard Slimserver does it). Does this sound familiar to you? -- RoyE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
