Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
dasmueller;678576 Wrote: > p.s. my first rock concert ever was Grateful Dead in Dallas, TX, > 12/26/1969. Wow, coming up on 42 years ago. Man I'm old! > > Early concerts > > The Youngbloods At Goddard College Plainfield Vt > > The Who Who's Next Tour Forest Hills Tennis Stadium NYC amazing an

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread GeeJay
Back to the original request I accomplish this using the star ratings to identify, on the fly, the tracks I don't want to have in my random mixes. When a filler or intro track comes up for the first time in a mix, I assign one star to it using iPeng or my SB3 remote. All my Custom Skip filt

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
p.s. my first rock concert ever was Grateful Dead in Dallas, TX, 12/26/1969. Wow, coming up on 42 years ago. Man I'm old! Early concerts The Youngbloods At Goddard College Plainfield Vt The Who Who's Next Tour Forest Hills Tennis Stadium NYC amazing and imo one of the top Rock albums of all ti

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread rayman1701
aubuti;678486 Wrote: > Just one or two steps more obsessive -- or less lazy -- about it than I > am. > The nice thing is, since I rip in iTunes anyway, it takes all of 3 seconds to join, Highlight the 2 (or more) tracks, go to the Advanced pull down and select "Join CD Tracks", and then rip as

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
You mentioned talking about upcoming retirement, actually by "nearing" I meant about maybe 10 years in the future! But that's ok, I really like my job and might even work longer if I'm healthy. -- garym Location 1: VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) > LMS 7.7.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Bat

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
dasmueller;678524 Wrote: > Sounds like your GD collection is larger than mine. I have a few non > commercial concert recordings, Dicks Picks 1-28 and most of the other > commercial releases up to about that time. Great stuff. How many times > can one listen to Drums and Space though. Ever listen

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
garym;678520 Wrote: > I should probably do that with my Grateful Dead Collection of concerts, > but it will take the rest of my life to listen to them all! ;-) > > I seem to recall that somewhere recently in a post you mentioned you > were nearing retirement. Maybe then you will have the time.

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
dasmueller;678519 Wrote: > When I went through the process of ripping, tagging etc. I listened to a > portion of each CD of a concert recording to determine whether or not > the quality was acceptable. There were some that did not make the cut. I should probably do that with my Grateful Dead Col

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
I do tend to exclude concerts from random mixes by default. I have too many concerts with poor recording quality to include in mixes. I would prefer to keep the concerts as many times one gets to hear songs that were either not commercially released, extended versions, different instrumentation

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
dasmueller;678512 Wrote: > > garym;678495 Wrote: > > Hmmm, just tried it by starting a Random Mix from that option in my > > music. Once I had the random mix playing, I went to the playlist list > > (all within SqueezePlay) and left mouse clicked on a future track (had > > to hold it for a secon

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
garym;678495 Wrote: > Hmmm, just tried it by starting a Random Mix from that option in my > music. Once I had the random mix playing, I went to the playlist list > (all within SqueezePlay) and left mouse clicked on a future track (had > to hold it for a second), but the context menu did popup and

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread emalvick
There was a nice plugin for MediaMonkey that allowed you to link songs together so that when a group of songs that should be played continuously would be played continuous during a random mix. For instance, if you linked 3 songs together and song 2 was randomly picked ruding a mix, it would queue

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
aubuti;678486 Wrote: > It doesn't strike me as weird at all. Just one or two steps more > obsessive -- or less lazy -- about it than I am. > > I recall seeing several requests for a plugin that will keep tracks > like Sgt. Pepper/With a Little Help together in random mixes. Sometimes > you just

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
dasmueller;678488 Wrote: > Thanks gary. From What I can gather one needs Erland's Dynamic Playlist > for this to work ? I am running Squeezeplay 7.5.0 without plugins. > When I left click nothing happens. Hmmm, just tried it by starting a Random Mix from that option in my music. Once I had the

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
Thanks gary. From What I can gather one needs Erland's Dynamic Playlist for this to work ? I am running Squeezeplay 7.5.0 without plugins. When I left click nothing happens. -- dasmueller dasmueller's Profile: http://foru

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread aubuti
rayman1701;678470 Wrote: > That's what works for me, and I might be weird but I never claimed not > to be :) It doesn't strike me as weird at all. Just one or two steps more obsessive -- or less lazy -- about it than I am. I recall seeing several requests for a plugin that will keep tracks like

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
dasmueller;678473 Wrote: > Thank you all for your help. I may look at the plugins. I Like the idea > of doing it on the fly which is fairly simple on the Touch itself or > from the web interface even easier. > > Is there a way to do the same thing in Squeezeplay ? I often use that > when workin

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
Thank you all for your help. I may look at the plugins. I Like the idea of doing it on the fly which is fairly simple on the Touch itself or from the web interface even easier. Is there a way to do the same thing in Squeezeplay ? I often use that when working on my PC as it is on a different flo

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread rayman1701
What I usually do especially for stuff like Intros and spoken stuff during concerts that for some reason got its own track number, is to join that track with either the next track or the previous track, depending on the placement and feel. I use iTunes, so it's easy for me to do while ripping to

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread aubuti
Good suggestions garym. And I should add that even though I advocate using the genre tag this way, in practice I haven't gotten around to changing those tags for most of my own collection. Instead, every now and then I just look ahead on the playlist that Random Mix generates and delete the tracks

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread garym
aubuti;678435 Wrote: > You can do something with the genre tag, such as giving those tracks a > genre of "No Random Mix". Then don't include that genre in the Random > Mix settings. > > You also get a lot more powerful and flexible options if you install > Erland's DynamicPlaylist and SQLPlayli

Re: [slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread aubuti
You can do something with the genre tag, such as giving those tracks a genre of "No Random Mix". Then don't include that genre in the Random Mix settings. You also get a lot more powerful and flexible options if you install Erland's DynamicPlaylist and SQLPlaylist plugins. In particular, you hav

[slim] Can Random Mix Be Customized ?

2011-12-21 Thread dasmueller
I am guessing what I am asking about is not possible, but the dumb question is ther one not asked. I have a great deal of live concert albums. These often have tracks named, Intro, Outro, Announcer etc. When listening to the whole concert it is nice to have these tracks. However when one chooses