Mnyb;662353 Wrote: > The randomplay funtion can be used too, it require you to deselect all > genres but the one you wan't . > It would cue up randon songs 10 at the time from that genre forever. > > Pressing play on a genre would cue up the x first songs in that genre, > where x is your playlist size limit. > Probably alphabetically. And then are shuffled, so if the genre is > bigger than the playlist limit it will not shuffle from the whole > alphabet. > > You can go to the performance settings and set playlist limit to "0" > this means unlimited, sbs would the cue up all songs in a genre or > crash :) depending on cpu. Default limit is 500 songs > > A modern pc could handle pretty large playlist so it gets to be a > problem when collections is large and the cpu is small ( a low powered > server or NAS ) > > Another option is to use the Dynamic playlist plugin it is much more > flexible and has simple modes directly selctable as play random from > genre(s). > > But normal random play and Dynamic playlist can be setup to play from a > selection of genres, this is good > as the genre tag tend to be a mess. > > Randomplay is much easier for the computers cpu, squeezeboxserver is a > very ineficient program when handling large playlists, they made rocket > science out of it. But running it on fast pc you wont always notice. > While in the performance settings use the "high" memory setting it > makes everything faster and better if you ram to spare.
agree. I use dynamic playlist and SQL Playlist to create my own random playlists that play from a combination of genres, songs that haven't been played in 3 months, etc. And since some of my combination of genres have 25,000 tracks, the function of only adding to my SB playlist 10 songs at a time is a real life (CPU) saver.... -- garym System 1: Vortexbox Appliance (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) System 2: Win7(64) laptop > SbS 7.6.2 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.6 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90815 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
