This thread seemed like the right place to ask this question. Can you dynamically control the Slimserver's playlist? Some background. I've written a program very similar to this plugin, but totally standalone. It tracks a songs play history, ratings, etc. However, the key difference is after each song is played, it dynamically chooses the next song. This has allowed me to create a really excellent non-repeating radio station of sorts. It knows what band/genre the last song was and can make an effort to pick a different or similar song depening on your settings. You can set the ratios for each rating, ie. I want to hear 5's 20%, 4's 30%, etc.
The real key is that it's not a pre-generated playlist, it uses the criteria to narrow the list of songs to choose from and then selects randomly. This makes it quite random. I've used it for 2 years now and would love to integrate the same selection mechanism to my slim server. It sounds like your plugin already stores the data I use, and mines written mostly with SQL queries (SQL 2000). I could adapt them to MySQL. The key is whether you can dynamically choose a new song and add it to the playlist in realtime. Thoughts? Would this be possible, has it been done already? -- gbronzer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbronzer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4279 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20533 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
