afriend wrote: > > While working on DPL 3 I switched very often between 2.10.247 (the last > DPL 2 version) and DPL 3. Erland changed the code in the end so that DPL > would never ask for or require the license manager. And it never did. So > don't know what's going on there. Did you dl the old plugin from the > link on my github page and followed the steps there?
I hope I did. I tried to! I thought that the plugins still wanted License Manager but LM was updated to just give everything to everybody. But it's been a long time and I could be completely wrong. For what it's worth, I never deleted LM. afriend wrote: > Anyway here's a very quick draft of a playlist that should meet your > parameters. So if you're feeling adventurous (haven't tested it at > all): > This is a very promising start, thank you! Curiously, I was able to get it to work on the other server where I installed your Dynamic Playlists (no prior version had ever been installed) but could never get it to do anything at all with the included Never Played Albums option. The web page would just kind of sit for a while but nothing got added to the playlist. But your new code immediately a selected a one-track album, then added another complete multi-track album. The only issue there is that the tracks were out of order, but that's probably easy. It looks like more is going on, but you now have me curious if I can simplify it. I haven't looked at the database lately, so maybe I'm fooling myself. What I'm shooting for is "Find a single random unplayed track that doesn't have a genre I don't want. Find the album it belongs to, then add the entire album to the playlist with the tracks properly ordered." It looks like you're starting in the same place but I think I'll fool around with this and see if I can make it simpler. afriend wrote: > > I'm not sure if it will add the -entire- album (did v2 add a complete > box of 500 tracks?) > It would definitely add entire boxes, though the biggest one I can think of was Zombie Heaven, which is over 100 tracks. I remember that specifically because I once tried to play it via a Touch's built-in server and it refused because the playlist was too big! But if I can figure out a way to just use that "seed" track as the key to grab the entire album I'll be happy. afriend wrote: > > because after all DPL is a lot about dynamic random mixes, very much > designed to increase randomness, in this case getting tracks in small > batches and each batch a new query and therefore possibly new album. It's important to me to add an entire album in order. This is partly an old age thing (I grew up in the era when the album was king) and partly an insomnia thing: I let it play at a low level all night, so that if I wake up I can listen to whatever it's serving while I try to go back to sleep. If it's playing an album I know but I realize tracks are missing, it will definitely get my attention in a non-positive way. I also get a kick out of checking What Was That Tune in the morning. The fewer tracks I realize I heard, the better I probably slept. afriend wrote: > > Anyway, I really have to go. Hope this helped a bit. I think it really did help and I hope to have more time to really dig into it tomorrow. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115073 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
