Re: [slim] Rapid shuffle of long playlist
dcote, my wait times range from about 20 seconds to as much as a minute. wnshall, I followed the thread and now I understand how to configure it to play the dynamic playlists in random mode. Thanks! One thing though, how do I add a dynamic playlist to my favorites? If I have to drill down through four layers of menus to get to my dynamic playlist, then I've lost the 30 seconds I saved by making it a dynamic playlist! -- puzzler puzzler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rapid shuffle of long playlist
puzzler;262481 Wrote: One thing though, how do I add a dynamic playlist to my favorites? If I have to drill down through four layers of menus to get to my dynamic playlist, then I've lost the 30 seconds I saved by making it a dynamic playlist! I don't really know, and you should really post to the 3rd party plugins forum for better guidance. However On the player you have to press play+hold to invoke Dynamic Playlists and then choose the one you want to use (in this case, Random for Playlist, or whatever you called it.) I don't think you can save this to favorites, since it's a general purpose script that takes a parameter -- in this case the playlist name. I have to say that in practice I don't think this navigation is all that cumbersome or time-consuming. If you aren't interested in having a general purpose random playlist player, but instead want to play a specific playlist radomly, you might be able to make a SQL playlist that plays a specific playlist. Perhaps that could be saved in Favorites. Finally, note erland's suggestion: If you always want the static playlists to be played in random order through Dynamic Playlist, there is an option in the Dynamic Playlist section of Server Settings/Plugins called RANDOM SAVED PLAYLISTS that does this. For more informed answers, you should ask over in 3rd party plugins. -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rapid shuffle of long playlist
hey puzzler - and i thought i was the only one using LONG playlists in shuffle mode! ;-) mine are only ~800 songs, but i agree the delay is there. on my system, it took about 15-20 sec. for SS 6.x to start playing the lists shuffled. while not instantaneous, i can live with that. i have a severley resource starved server: 700 MHz PIII equivalent VIA ITX MoBo with 1GB and it is running LOTS of stuff. how long are you waiting? i am not sure if this will help you, but i discovered something just recently... my playlist manager (personal playlist manager plugin for winamp) seems to be adding junk to my playlists. i had a playlist called mood groovy which had ~700 tracks in it and was ~85KB in size. when i accidentally re-saved it from inside winamp, it shrunk to 14KB and all 700 tracks all still there! go figure... anyways, i am imagining my SS 6 is faster now, it rarely needs more than 10 sec. to load mood groovy shuffled. here is what i did: opened mood groovy in winamp. immediately re-saved it (different file name) - shrunk to 14KB. re-scanned playlists in SS. done! maybe you want to try that? other than that, i really wouldnt know either - sorry! -- dcote dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Rapid shuffle of long playlist
puzzler;261964 Wrote: I have a playlist with roughly 3000 items in it. I am getting very tired of the very lengthy delay every time I try to load the playlist (I have song shuffle mode enabled). I notice that Random Mix is very fast, but it only allows you to select by genre, or mix everything in your music folder. What I really want is that sort of rapid behavior, when shuffling a playlist. Just pull out a random 10 at a time. I investigated some plug-ins, such as the Dynamic Playlist and SQL Playlist functionality, but these plug-ins seem to be geared around mimicking the Random Mix functionality, i.e., mixing by genre. Can anyone tell me how to get Random Mix style behavior for a *playlist*? Thanks! Check out this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 It explains how to use Dynamic Playlist/SQL Playlist to accomplish this. I did it and it works great. -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Rapid shuffle of long playlist
I have a playlist with roughly 3000 items in it. I am getting very tired of the very lengthy delay every time I try to load the playlist (I have song shuffle mode enabled). I notice that Random Mix is very fast, but it only allows you to select by genre, or mix everything in your music folder. What I really want is that sort of rapid behavior, when shuffling a playlist. Just pull out a random 10 at a time. I investigated some plug-ins, such as the Dynamic Playlist and SQL Playlist functionality, but these plug-ins seem to be geared around mimicking the Random Mix functionality, i.e., mixing by genre. Can anyone tell me how to get Random Mix style behavior for a *playlist*? Thanks! -- puzzler puzzler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15026 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42650 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
