ChipMonk;684374 Wrote: > Would you mind elaborating on how you do this please? So far I'm mainly > playing music via Music Folders, with albums stored in their own > individual folders. On the few occassions when I've tried to do a > shuffle play on, say, the whole Rock section sub folders, I usually get > a crash (Squeezebox server on Atom D510 WHS Tranquil BBS2 system). I > have had no luck so far figuring out how to prevent this - getting the > system back again is such a pain I haven't repeated this excercise very > often. > > Help would be appreciated > > Thanks > > Chip
yes, doing shuffle all on a very large playlist (all rock!) could be a problem. It is pretty straightforward once DYNAMIC PLAYLIST is installed. You then select an option underneath the menu for Dynamic Playlist. For example, the menu item might be /random, then /for selected, then it allows you select random by genre, artist, etc. It does a lot more than just this example, but you get the idea. And then in the background it feeds 10 (or your choice) songs at a time to the active playlist window. I also use SQL Playlist plugin to create more specialized random playlists. This works in conjunction with DYNAMIC PLAYLISTS. Install these from LMS > SETTINGS > Plugin tab. Be sure to check the "show all 3rd party plugins" to see the options. Erland now charges for these plugins and you also need his "license manager" plugin. But I believe he has a 30 day trial. Also note: playing and searching via browse music folder (BMF) is probably the least efficient way to use LMS. BMF is really meant for playing a file or two recently added to your computer before you've done a library scan, etc. I'm told that using BMF requires a lot more processing power on the part of LMS. If you are using BMF becausee you don't have good tags (metadata), but your directory structure and file names are good (e.g., ARTIST/ALBUM/track# - tracktitle) or something similar, you can use MP3TAG to fill in metadata from file info in a simple batch approach using the option FILENAME - TAG (and it gives you the options to edit the conversion "mask" to fit your filename information. Very easy to use and does filetypes other than just mp3. -- garym *Location 1:* VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) > LMS 7.7.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VB Appliance 3TB (2.0) > LMS 7.7.1 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.1 > SqueezePlay Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controllers: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 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=93041 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
