Welcome to the forums. Lots of options for random playing, and that was definitely one of the most fun things for me when I got my first Squeezebox -- rediscovering all kinds of great music I had completely forgotten I had.
In more or less increasing order of complexity (and perhaps satisfaction): 0. Shuffle play - just use the shuffle play option. An incredibly inefficient way to random mix. It can tax your server, lead to unresponsive ui, etc. I don't recommend it. 1. RandomMix - a standard plugin that comes with Squeezebox Server (SBS). In the setup you can select particular genres to include in the mix. A good way of keeping holiday tracks, comedy tracks, etc out of the general mix. 2. DynamicPlaylists & SQLPlaylist - plugins from Erland that give more flexibility in selecting genres to include or EXclude, allow you to set up simple or complex SQL queries. 3. TrackStat & CustomSkip - more plugins from Erland's "suite". I don't use these so I don't know much about them, but they integrate with DynamicPlaylists & SQLPlaylist. TrackStat keeps track of your ratings for different tracks, how often they've been played, etc so that you can build a random playlist of most frequently played tracks, tracks that haven't been played in a long time, etc. CustomSkip "makes it possible to skip tracks with low ratings, zapped tracks, short tracks and much more." 4. MusicIP & Spicefly Sugarcube - In my opinion the best playlist generator for SB. It uses "fingerprints" of your tracks based on musical analysis, and then you can set parameters for how much variety you want. It's like Pandora or last.fm for your own music library. It is somewhat dead-end software, as the company was bought out and the new owner appears to be more interested in business-to-business than end-users. Configuring MusicIP to integrate with SBS can be a little bit of a black art, but there are good guides in the wiki (wiki.slimdevices.com). Spicefly is a nice enhancement to MusicIP, a bit more dynamic in its track selection to allow you to do an interesting semi-random walk through your music library. . -- aubuti Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it, and it's '100% wind powered' (http://www.cleancurrents.com/). MSI Wind nettop (Debian Lenny 5.0.6) feeding: Living room: SB Touch + SBC > NAD C325 BEE > Vandersteen 1; Kitchen/Dining: SB2 + SBC > AudioSource Amp100 > 2 pair of Polk RC60i; Basement: SB2 > JVC JA-S44 > ESS Tempest LS8; Bedroom: Boom; Study:SB Radio; Backyard deck: Duet > AudioSource Amp100 > Polk Atrium 45; Kid's bedroom: SB3 > Klipsch ProMedia 2.0; Limbo:SBR http://www.last.fm/user/aubuti/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84926 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
