Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Hi Erland, You might remember we had a short discussion in this thread on the option to directly start a preselected dynamic playlist (which a user can choose/define in the Dynamic/SQLPlaylist Web UI) when hitting the play button in a Custom Browse menu: -Custom Browse - Artist - Hitting Play button starts preselected artist related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Year - Hitting Play button starts preselected year related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Genre - Hitting Play button starts preselected genre related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Custom Tag - Hitting Play button starts preselected custom tag related dynamic playlist erland;260006 Wrote: I kind of like the idea. I think it would be possible to have a selection listbox in the menus settings for each menu where you could configure each level if you liked it to play by adding all tracks or if you like it to start a specific dynamic playlist. I have to look at this in a bit more detail, to know how much work it is. However, it'll have to wait some time until I have released official versions for SqueezeCenter 7.0 and fixed some other more urgent problems. I am just curious whether you managed to include this functionality in the latest version of your plugins. Roy Ellenbroek -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
RoyE;321883 Wrote: Hi Erland, You might remember we had a short discussion in this thread on the option to directly start a preselected dynamic playlist (which a user can choose/define in the Dynamic/SQLPlaylist Web UI) when hitting the play button in a Custom Browse menu: I am just curious whether you managed to include this functionality in the latest version of your plugins. No, it hasn't been implemented yet. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;321895 Wrote: No, it hasn't been implemented yet. But still something on your list, i.e are you still planning to do it? Roy -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260376 Wrote: It sounds like you haven't setup the following correctly, please try again. You need to create plalists based on the exact name mentioned in the below text, it the for in the names are important. Thanks for your help and patience erland. Of course I had made a stupid mistake and created the SQL playlist based on top genre, not top for genre. It works correctly now! -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;255285 Wrote: After this you should be able to: Browse-Genre-Latin-Play+hold-Dynamic Playlist-Random for genre What do I have to do to have Dynamic Playlist show up as an option when I press Play+hold? I have the Dynamic Playlist plugin installed, along with Custom Browse and Track Stat. I thought this might be a mixer and looked at the enable/disable mixer setting in Custom Browse, but all the mixers it shows are enabled. -steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Within SqueezeCenter settings-Advanced-Dynamic Playlists-various settings, make sure that you have set the Play+Hold mixer action to on. Phil ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260186 Wrote: You will need a playlist that wants a parameter of the same type as the item you hold play on. The following post shows how to do it with SQL Playlist plugin for genres: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=255285#post255285 I had followed those instructions and didn't get the Dynamic Playlist option showing up. When I press play+hold I get 4 options (from memory) 1) Random (this sets up a fixed random playlist with a small number of tracks), 2) Trackstat, 3) Browse selected, 4) Something else I can't remember, but not obviously related to Dynamic Playlist. If I've (correctly) followed the instructions above, what should show up when pressing play+hold? An item called Dynamic Playlist? Or an item related to the SQL playlist created in those instructions? Also, should there be an icon on the web page corresponding to Dynamic Playlist? I have icons for Browse Selected, Random, Trackstat, but not for Dynamic Playlist. Thanks, -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
wnshall;260168 Wrote: What do I have to do to have Dynamic Playlist show up as an option when I press Play+hold? I have the Dynamic Playlist plugin installed, along with Custom Browse and Track Stat. I thought this might be a mixer and looked at the enable/disable mixer setting in Custom Browse, but all the mixers it shows are enabled. You will need a playlist that wants a parameter of the same type as the item you hold play on. The following post shows how to do it with SQL Playlist plugin for genres: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=255285#post255285 -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260006 Wrote: Are we talking about the standard Genres menu under Custom Browse ? The structure should be: Code: Custom Browse Genres Pop Artist1 Album1 Track1 Track2 Are you saying that you see duplicate entries in the track level in this hierarchy ? Have you changed any settings in the Custom Browse configuration for the Genres menu ? Yes, there are duplicate entries. I am using the built-in Genre menu under Custom Browse. erland;260006 Wrote: I kind of like the idea. I think it would be possible to have a selection listbox in the menus settings for each menu where you could configure each level if you liked it to play by adding all tracks or if you like it to start a specific dynamic playlist. I have to look at this in a bit more detail, to know how much work it is. However, it'll have to wait some time until I have released official versions for SqueezeCenter 7.0 and fixed some other more urgent problems. Of course, first things first. In the mean time I am still using Slimserver 6.5 and will switch to 7.0 in due time. -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
wnshall;260220 Wrote: If I've (correctly) followed the instructions above, what should show up when pressing play+hold? An item called Dynamic Playlist? Or an item related to the SQL playlist created in those instructions? An item Dynamic Playlist and beneath that you will get the new genre based random playlist you have created. Does it show up if you navigate to the Dynamic Playlist menu in the web interface ? After you have navigated to the Dynamic Playlist menu, could you try again. I don't remember when it refreshed the information, so it might be that you need to goto the Dynamic Playlist menu once before it works. wnshall;260220 Wrote: Also, should there be an icon on the web page corresponding to Dynamic Playlist? I have icons for Browse Selected, Random, Trackstat, but not for Dynamic Playlist. Yes, you should see a PL icon if it works. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;260308 Wrote: An item Dynamic Playlist and beneath that you will get the new genre based random playlist you have created. Does it show up if you navigate to the Dynamic Playlist menu in the web interface ? Yes, it does. If hit the play icon next to it, it generates a playlist 15 items long. The first 9 are all from one genre, the next 6 are all from another genre. If I hit clear and then the play icon again, I get another similar playlist containing a series of songs from two different genres (the first genre matches the last one from the previous playlist). A third press of the play icon gives a playlist with just 10 songs in it, all from one genre. I'm not sure what behavior to expect from this playlist when invoked from the Dynamic Playlists menu, but that seems strange. After you have navigated to the Dynamic Playlist menu, could you try again. I don't remember when it refreshed the information, so it might be that you need to goto the Dynamic Playlist menu once before it works. Still don't see the PL icon, when navigating through Custom Browse | Genres/Subgenres, or Custom Browse | Genres. I'm running ss 6.5.1 on XP with Dynamic Playlists 1.13 and Custom Browse 1.20.2. -Steve -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
erland;258728 Wrote: Yes, that's a bit strange. Could you look in the web interface and see how many tracks the Jazz genre contains in the standard Genre browse menu and in the Custom Browse Genre browse menu ?. The same result: 297 versus 657 tracks. I had a closer look in the Custom Browse playlist and it seems that many songs appear at least twice... erland;258728 Wrote: Does the same problem also occur when you hit play on a artist or on a genre that contains less number of tracks ? When using other artists or genres, in general what happens is: the smaller the playlist the quicker the response. But it still is quite annoying, especially the fact that the remote freezes for some time. erland;258728 Wrote: You can create a dynamic playlist as you described in 2. I guess I could change the behaviour so the play button launches this dynamic playlist, but I'm not sure this is what all users want. Today you need to hold play button down for a while to reach it I think it would be absolutely great to have that included (at least as an option, to avoid any disappointed users): So in that case, hitting the play button could automatically launch a preselected dynamic playlist (which a user can choose/define in the Dynamic/SQLPlaylist Web UI): -Custom Browse - Artist - Hitting Play button starts preselected artist related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Year - Hitting Play button starts preselected year related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Genre - Hitting Play button starts preselected genre related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Custom Tag - Hitting Play button starts preselected custom tag related dynamic playlist The Play+hold option could remain functional, as it brings you to the complete list of available dynamic playlists to choose from. I must admit I don't have a clue what this would mean in terms of programming... -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
RoyE;259890 Wrote: The same result: 297 versus 657 tracks. I had a closer look in the Custom Browse playlist and it seems that many songs appear at least twice... Are we talking about the standard Genres menu under Custom Browse ? The structure should be: Code: Custom Browse Genres Pop Artist1 Album1 Track1 Track2 Are you saying that you see duplicate entries in the track level in this hierarchy ? Have you changed any settings in the Custom Browse configuration for the Genres menu ? RoyE;259890 Wrote: I think it would be absolutely great to have that included (at least as an option, to avoid any disappointed users): So in that case, hitting the play button could automatically launch a preselected dynamic playlist (which a user can choose/define in the Dynamic/SQLPlaylist Web UI): -Custom Browse - Artist - Hitting Play button starts preselected artist related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Year - Hitting Play button starts preselected year related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Genre - Hitting Play button starts preselected genre related dynamic playlist -Custom Browse - Custom Tag - Hitting Play button starts preselected custom tag related dynamic playlist The Play+hold option could remain functional, as it brings you to the complete list of available dynamic playlists to choose from. I kind of like the idea. I think it would be possible to have a selection listbox in the menus settings for each menu where you could configure each level if you liked it to play by adding all tracks or if you like it to start a specific dynamic playlist. I have to look at this in a bit more detail, to know how much work it is. However, it'll have to wait some time until I have released official versions for SqueezeCenter 7.0 and fixed some other more urgent problems. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Partially, I solved the problem. I disabled all plugins and enabled only CustomScan, CustomBrwose, TrackStat, SQLlist, DynamicPlaylist. After that I tried to play a random song playlist on the jazz genre (600 songs) in three different ways: 1. Via the standard Slimserver menu (Genre - Jazz - Play. It took 10 seconds before the first song started to play. Apart from this slow start-up, everything worked smooth. 2. Via DynamicPlaylist. Random by Genre (created as you indicated in one of the previous posts) - Jazz - Play. No problem at all: it took only a second before the first song started to play. No strange interruptions anymore... 3. Via CustomBrowse. Genre (created under CustomBrowse) - Jazz - Play. It takes about 30 seconds before the first song starts to play. After that the remote freezes for minutes or is hardly responsive. I reinstalled CustomBrowse but that didn't help. Any idea what may cause this? -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
How many songs are added to the current playlist when you click play in 1 or 3 ? I don't think Custom Browse is optimized for adding a lot of songs at the same time to the current playlist, so this could possibly cause the 30 seconds delay. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
In option 1 (standard Silmserver) it will generate a playlist of 297 songs. In option 3 (CustomBrowse) it generates 657 songs ???strange??? So CustomBrowse is not really suitable in that case? That is a pity when you have an ever growing music library. Would be nice to have DynamicPlaylist coupled to CustomBrowse in such way that whenever you select a genre, artist or whatever in CustomBrowse it will generate a dynamic playlist automatically(10 songs). -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
RoyE;258571 Wrote: In option 1 (standard Silmserver) it will generate a playlist of 297 songs. In option 3 (CustomBrowse) it generates 657 songs ???strange???Yes, that's a bit strange. Could you look in the web interface and see how many tracks the Jazz genre contains in the standard Genre browse menu and in the Custom Browse Genre browse menu ? The behaviour you describe seems like a bug. I can understand that hitting play in Custom Browse could take a bit longer than hitting play in the standard browse menus, but it shouldn't make the system unusable afterwards. The reason Custom Browse takes longer time is that it does more than the standard browse menus, but I would have expected it to work as usual after the 30 seconds it took for the first artist to start playing. Does the same problem also occur when you hit play on a artist or on a genre that contains less number of tracks ? RoyE;258571 Wrote: So CustomBrowse is not really suitable in that case? That is a pity when you have an ever growing music library. Would be nice to have DynamicPlaylist coupled to CustomBrowse in such way that whenever you select a genre, artist or whatever in CustomBrowse it will generate a dynamic playlist automatically(10 songs). It should work, but I know I've had performance problems earlier when you hit play on an item that contains a lot of sub items. You can create a dynamic playlist as you described in 2. I guess I could change the behaviour so the play button launches this dynamic playlist, but I'm not sure this is what all users want. Today you need to hold play button down for a while to reach it. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Thanks for your response. I'll try it that way. -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
I have been playing around with Dynamic Playlists for a while now. However, I notice that after a few seconds in every song, the music briefly holds for 1-2 seconds: it seems the system is then busy searching for the next song to be added to the last position of the playlist (i.e. nr. 11, 12, 13 and so on, assuming that you start with 10 songs in the playlist). I have checked my network test: 100%. I am running SS 6.5.4 on a FreeNas-system with 1 GB internal memory. The only thing I can think of is the amount of tags I have for every track: I recently added Performers, Perfomersort, Trackartist and some more. Could this influence the speed of the system? -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
RoyE;255540 Wrote: The only thing I can think of is the amount of tags I have for every track: I recently added Performers, Perfomersort, Trackartist and some more. Could this influence the speed of the system? Are you using these tags with the Custom Scan plugin ? Are any of these custom tags part of the dynamic playlist you use ? Do you still have this problem if you start a simple random playlist for example by selecting: Dynamic Playlists/Random/Random songs How large is your SlimServer library ? (Number of songs) -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Erland, Well, to put it in another way: most of the times I am just interested in simply playing random songs within a certain genre (I have created about 50 in my tags). In the standard Slimserver setup this is done in just a few button clicks: Browse-Genre-Latin (for example)-Play. For this, I am not in the specific need of Dynamic Playlists or whatsoever. However, this straight forward way only works fine as long as the total number of songs in the genre is somewhat limited, due to the fact Slimserver, as programmed until now, will generate the full playlist in advance. The Dynamic Playlist / SQL Playlist plugin works smarter/quicker, i.e. it generates the playlist on the run. However, working with Dynamic Playlist in combination with Custom Browse simply means more hassle: Browse-Genre-Latin-Play+hold-Random. The above made me wonder why the standard Slimserver setup could not be programmed such that it always generates playlists on the run, i.e. without the specific need to install full featured plug-ins. (Don't get me wrong: I admire your plugin work and I am a satisfied user of many of them) Additionally, I found something strange in the way my Play+hold Random selection works. Currently I have Dynamic Playlists and SQLPlaylists installed and enabled the four pre-programmed Random Playlists (Random Albums, Random Artists, Random Songs, Random Years). When I press Play+hold in a certain genre and scroll to Random, I cannot select anything more. When I press the right arrow it will start playing a random playlist of 20 selected songs in the genre (after 20 songs it stops). Alternatively, when I press the Play button, it will start a random playlist of all the songs in the genre (i.e. just the way the standard Slimserver does it). Does this sound familiar to you? -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Play+Hold - Random in Custom Browse works as you describe, it just plays 20 random songs within the ganre. The number of songs played can be changed in Server Settings/Plugins/Custom Browse. This is not a dynamic playlist, so it will not add new tracks when the 20 songs has been played. To accomplish something that works as you like you need to create a new playlist with SQL Playlist plugin of the type Top rated for genre. To be able to choose this playlist type you also needs the TrackStat plugin installed. When creating the playlist, just change the playlist name to Random for genre or something similar and let the rest of the parameters be the default values. I think you need to go to the Dynamic Playlist plugin once in the web interface after this to make sure the new playlist is activated. After this you should be able to: Browse-Genre-Latin-Play+hold-Dynamic Playlist-Random for genre I think this will work both in the Custom Browse genre menu and the standard SlimServer genre menu. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Hi, I am used to play random songs by selecting a genre and then press the play button. With an ever growing music collection, system gets slower and slower. The feature of Dynamic Playlists creating a limited playlist (e.g. 10-50 songs) is therefore most welcome. However, if I am right, the Dynamic Playlists and SQLPlaylist plugins, can only be activated via Playlists in the main menu or via play+hold - Random Mixer. Is there a way to get the feature of limited playlists incorporated in the standard Slimserver programming? If not, this could be something for the wishlist of the next Slimserver update. If impossible: maybe have it incorporated in Custom Browse? -- RoyE RoyE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14704 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
RoyE;254602 Wrote: Is there a way to get the feature of limited playlists incorporated in the standard Slimserver programming? If not, this could be something for the wishlist of the next Slimserver update. If impossible: maybe have it incorporated in Custom Browse? I'm not sure I understand what you mean with this. The Dynamic Playlist plugin can already today be accessed through play+hold from the Custom Browse menus assuming you have setup playlists in SQL Playlist that takes a parameter, for example an artist or genre. If you push play+hold on an artist in a Custom Browse menu or in the standard Artists browse menu in SC, you will be able to select Dynamic Playlists and it will then show you all playlists that takes an artist as paramter. The same thing can also be setup for genres, albums and years. Is this what you liked or were you thinking about something else ? -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
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. In SQL Playlist you can also create a new playlist of the type Top rated for playlist, if you have TrackStat installed. If you leave the Minimum rating rating field empty that playlist will ask you to select a static playlist and then play all the tracks in the static playlist in random order. The Top rated for playlist playlist type is currently only available if the TrackStat plugin is installed. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists: random playlists
Hi, I love how Dynamic Playlists creates just a small playlist that is continuously updated. This is big improvement over the standard behavior if you have lots of songs to be included in the playlist. I have some static playlists, often with lots of tracks, that I'd like to play via Dynamic Playlists. However, I'd also like to select songs randomly from these static playlists. Selecting Shuffle|song doesn't work since that just shuffles the songs in the Now Playing list and doesn't influence what songs DP pulls from the playlist. I don't want to just shuffle the static playlist because then I'll get the same random sequence of songs every time I play the playlist. I tried to use SQLplaylist to create a random songs playlist, but it doesn't seem possible to limit the action of SQLplaylist to a static playlist (which I can understand, since that's basically defeating the purpose of SQLplaylist). So, is it possible to do what I want? Is there any way to use Dynamic Playlist to pull songs randomly from a static playlist? -s -- wnshall wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41152 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
