It turns out this only seems to happen when the Continuous mode for
Random Mix is disabled ('0' in randommix.prefs). I'm sure it is a waste
of time but I will update the bug report.
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I must say that I think it is pretty ridiculous that a bug in the basic
functionality of the player won't be fixed unless it gets enough
votes. Surely someone else uses Random Mix followed by a shuffle mode
for their playlists??
I have shuffle by song mode enabled. If I play a Random Mix and then
play one of my playlists it shows that shuffle by song mode is still
enabled but that is not the case. I can see this by looking at the the
Now Playing list which shows the songs in the playlist in unshuffled
order. I used to
Hi,
To me random mix is not really random (squeezebox server 7.6.1 on
linux). Many songs in the list belong to the same album.
Am I the only one in that situation? Could this plugin be smarter?
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Try the forums search function. It's been discussed many times.
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I had searched before posting but not seriously enough apparently.
I am really surprised a smart random is not available. For such a
device as Squeezebox Touch, it should be really a must.
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Pick random mix--then shuffle it! That's what I do if I really want to
be surprised. Like shuffling a deck of cards 10 times.
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garym;667842 Wrote:
I would love something longer than 12 weeks. 6 months or even a year
would be nice.
I've added a 6 months and one year option in the SQL Playlist version I
just released.
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erland;667915 Wrote:
I've added a 6 months and one year option in the SQL Playlist version I
just released.
fantastic. thanks!
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Is there a way to tell the Random Mix mode to only play songs that were
never played or not played in, say, the past 6 months?
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Retired:
dbinder101;667764 Wrote:
Is there a way to tell the Random Mix mode to only play songs that were
never played or not played in, say, the past 6 months?
To do this, you need the third party SQL Playlist plugin (plus Dynamic
Playlist plugin) and TrackStat plugin, the Random Songs menu provided
erland;667834 Wrote:
To do this, you need the third party SQL Playlist plugin (plus Dynamic
Playlist plugin) and TrackStat plugin, the Random Songs menu provided
with SQL Playlist will make it possible to ignore recently played
tracks.
Currently you can only tell it to ignore everything
When I select Random Mix, with a few genres deselected in web browser
it's still playing that genre. Any idea on the solution? I'm using
erland custom browse just wondering if it's getting confused.
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Do the files in question have more than one genre assigned to them? If
so, Random Mix is playing them because one of their genres is in the
OK list.
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sg60;424165 Wrote:
Just getting into SqueezeCenter. Is there a way to save different Random
Mixes. Love the feature but it looks like you're stuck with a single
mix. I would like to create a bunch of dymnamic playlists based on
different selections of genres. Is this possible?
So the random
Just getting into SqueezeCenter. Is there a way to save different Random
Mixes. Love the feature but it looks like you're stuck with a single
mix. I would like to create a bunch of dymnamic playlists based on
different selections of genres. Is this possible?
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Look at erland's Dynamic Playlist plugin which should do what you want:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Dynamic_Playlist_plugin
Loads more info on the forums.
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I have the Duet. How do you do a random mix by a particular artist?
For example, I have 10 U2 albums. How do I set the Duet to random play
all songs across all my U2 albums only?
Also, is there a way to play random tracks from just one particular
album? Say I only want to hear Joshua Tree in
Turn on shuffle by song and load 'em all into the playlist.
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is there not an easier way? I have to manually load all songs into the
playlist and hit random?
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Hi,
In article sotwell.3mdljn1232562...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com,
sotwellsotwell.3mdljn1232562...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote:
is there not an easier way? I have to manually load all songs into the
playlist and hit random?
It's not so hard as it might seem. You can hit
Just scroll by artist, find U2, hit play and make sure shuffle is on.
Piece of cake
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OK - dumb question, but is shuffle different from random? Is there a
shuffle button?
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Random/Shuffle, same thing. I have the SB remote and there is a shuffle
button, it is a toggle, shuffle by album/shuffle by song/no shuffle. I
assume the Duet has the same thing. Just give it a try.
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jdbaker;387856 Wrote:
Random/Shuffle, same thing. I have the SB remote and there is a shuffle
button, it is a toggle, shuffle by album/shuffle by song/no shuffle. I
assume the Duet has the same thing. Just give it a try.
No, unfortunately the Duet does not have a shuffle button (and neither
peter;374589 Wrote:
And who'd want to hear three
Ramones tracks in a row anyway?
Me! :-)
And not only three, they come in batches of 14 on an LP, great!!
And Happy New Year
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MeSue;374850 Wrote:
You could still run MusicIP on another computer and point it to the same
music files that are on your NAS. Then either archive analysis in tags
or not. Either way, you can still create the playlists in the desktop
app and save them out to your NAS just as Goodsounds
Seems to confirm my worries / thoughts - I really was hoping for random
rather than themed playlists, but will play with some of these ideas -
thanks everyone for your contributions.
How does the squeezebox community request product enhancements as
proposed above..?
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What do the different random mixes actually achieve - e.g. Random SOng
Mix vs Random Artist mix?
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JadeMonkee;374744 Wrote:
I've considered MusicIP before, but the problem is that I'm running my
SC on a ReadyNAS Duo, and I don't think there is enough CPU power for
the initial scan; especially as I have ~12000 songs.
You could still run MusicIP on another computer and point it to the
same
Don't play from same artist within 2 hours.
Don't play from same album within 3 hours.
Don't play same song within 24 hours.
Randomize();
This is possible in SqueezeCenter, using Erland's CustomSkip plugin.
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paulwinnan;374768 Wrote:
Seems to confirm my worries / thoughts - I really was hoping for random
rather than themed playlists, but will play with some of these ideas -
thanks everyone for your contributions.
How does the squeezebox community request product enhancements as
proposed
Philip Meyer;374857 Wrote:
Don't play from same artist within 2 hours.
Don't play from same album within 3 hours.
Don't play same song within 24 hours.
Randomize();
This is possible in SqueezeCenter, using Erland's CustomSkip plugin.
So why couldnt this be in SC directly instead of using
Cough;375071 Wrote:
So why couldnt this be in SC directly instead of using a plugin??
Because it would make standard SqueezeCenter more complex to use for
people that don't need this functionality and it would make it more
expensive to support these users for Logitech. The concept is that
Hi - can anyone help me...
I am using squeeze box version 3
SqueezeCenter Version: 7.2.1 - 23630 @ Tue Oct 21 07:44:57 PDT 2008 -
Windows XP - EN - cp1252
And I like the idea of just randomly getting hit with different tracks
from my collection 800 artists - 3000+ tracks and 300 albums. But it
This is a classic problem that plagues ALL random mixes.
I have the same problem. With thousands of tracks, it seems to favor 1
or 2 artists.
I've only seen one program do it right- SAM broadcaster. Allows you to
setup playlist rules, such as:
Don't play from same artist within 2 hours.
Don't
I also have issues with the random mix. And SC is worse than any other
MP3 player/Ipod etc that I have ever seen. I have had occasion where
it plays 3 tracks off the same album within a run of 10 random songs
(and yes I do have several albums ;)). And it has done this on various
artist albums
I've not had this problem, and I use random quite a lot. Odd. I've
only turned off a few genres in the Random screen (podcast, Classical,
Christmas) so it's selecting from most of my library. Is that the case
for those having problems?
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SJobson wrote:
I've not had this problem, and I use random quite a lot. Odd. I've
only turned off a few genres in the Random screen (podcast, Classical,
Christmas) so it's selecting from most of my library. Is that the case
for those having problems?
It's a well known fact (tm) that real
peter;374589 Wrote:
SJobson wrote:
I've not had this problem, and I use random quite a lot. Odd. I've
only turned off a few genres in the Random screen (podcast,
Classical,
Christmas) so it's selecting from most of my library. Is that the
case
for those having problems?
It's a
peter;374589 Wrote:
SJobson wrote:
I've not had this problem, and I use random quite a lot. Odd. I've
only turned off a few genres in the Random screen (podcast,
Classical,
Christmas) so it's selecting from most of my library. Is that the
case
for those having problems?
It's a
You might like Music IP Mixer. I think of it as managed random (my
term). You pick a song in your collection to seed a playlist, it then
follows your (changeable) preferences to populate the list with other
songs either most like or most unlike the seed, or degrees of same or
different-ness that
Goodsounds;374743 Wrote:
You might like Music IP Mixer. I think of it as managed random (my
term). You pick a song in your collection to seed a playlist, it then
follows your (changeable) preferences to populate the list with other
songs either most like or most unlike the seed, or degrees
This just started happening recently...
My Random Mix (Random Songs) only pulls from 4 albums in my library.
It will not EVER deviate from these 4 albums.
If I select Random Artist, it chooses one of the artists from these 4
albums (1 is a mix/various artist collection). But, with artist mix,
It seems this complaint has come up a few times and been lumped into
'bug 3297' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3297) but it
seems to persist after quite some time. Is the structure of slim
server conducive to maintaining playlist-oriented plugin states across
server restarts?
The
I just wanted to share something and I'm wondering if anyone else has
thought of it this way.
Like many of you, I use an SB to wake me up. I have it set to Random
Song Mix so the song that wakes me up is currently 1 out of 4554
tracks.
I find this collection is large enough and the
Mark Lanctot wrote:
I'm a pretty rational person and obviously I don't believe SlimServer
has supernatural powers, but it does often surprise me! Yes, I know
it's just cold calling. But I'm wondering if anyone else felt the
same or am I just weird? (Don't answer that one too quickly...)
Watch the movie I, Robot, it is the ghost in the machine or as the
programmers like to say it is all those unused bits doing something
useful. My amazement comes from how the SB can pick a random song to
wake me and it just happens to be the first or second song I hear on
the radio when I get in
iPhone;238405 Wrote:
Watch the movie I, Robot, it is the ghost in the machine or as the
programmers like to say it is all those unused bits doing something
useful. My amazement comes from how the SB can pick a random song to
wake me and it just happens to be the first or second song I hear
Well if your SB plays a song by a popular band, say Artic Monkey's.
The chances are that you'll hear that on a radio station that plays
popular music.
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Hi,
Version 6.5.2 - 11599 - solaris - EN - utf8
Random mix mode has a setting Now Playing will show X upcoming songs
and Y recently played songs. This works OK in random song mode, but in
random album mode, I can only get 1 album at a time queued in the
playlist no matter what numbers I use for
It's right at the bottom of the Random Mix page in the web ui.
Now Playing will show XX upcoming songs and YY recently played
songs.
-s.
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My Random Mix playlist keeps growing with every song. I seem to recall a
setting for the length of the playlist to keep but can't seem to find it
now. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Ray
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Have you tried the latest 6.5.2 nightly build - I think I've changed
something which may help here.
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I'm very pleased with the improved performance of Random Mix on
6.5.1--my display doesn't hang much at all between tracks where it used
to hang for 5-10 seconds. It's considerably more usable.
I also think it's more random. I hate saying things like that, but
I'm hearing songs and stuff that I
I chose Random Mix in SlimServer, I go to Select genres to include.
Lots of genres are listed, and I may remove the X or leave it there.
But what does it mean: Are the genres included if I remove the X or if
I leave it?
Further on: There seems to be no way to confirm the choice I make.
Is
I used to have my system set up so I could press-and-hold the 7 button
and it would start a random track mix. I know it was an edit in the
default.map file, but I've recently re-built my server, didn't back up
the default.map file and now can't remember the syntax for the file.
I've had a
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Hi,
Lately when I try random mix by album, once it hits the end of an
album, it just stops, and the SB powers off! I can manually add a
random album to the end of the playlist, but then same thing happens.
I'm running 6.5 on XP - and I'm pretty sure the first couple of times I
used random mix,
Quoting nicketynick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Lately when I try random mix by album, once it hits the end of an
album, it just stops, and the SB powers off!
--d_plugins will show you what is going on with the random play routines.
-kdf
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I am using Slimserver 6.5 with the Fishbone skin on a Win XP (all
patches applied) machine using Firefox 1.5.0.7
I am having a problem with random mix. When Random Mix is first started
it adds 50 songs (and shows the 10 previous songs played.) It plays all
of these songs just fine but it does
I've been searching through the forums for the past week, reading
everything I could find related to Random Mix performance, large
library performance, etc., but still haven't come across anything that
helped yet (could be my searching skills? :)
I'm having performance issues during Random Song
Having ripped my entire CD collection I find that when I do a random mix
I keep getting 10 minutes of silence when those stupid hidden tracks
come tagged on to the last track of the CD come around!
Is there a setting/plugin for skipping silence - or a software utilty
for easily finding and
I hope that someone will be able to help me with this.
I am running SlimServer (Currently Ver 6.3.1) on a Linkstation II
Mipsel, and have been for about a year. It works fine except for one
problem with Random Play. When I select Random Play (Song) no playlist
of songs is set up. If I select
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I'm trying to figure out how the random mix mode works.. is there a way
for me to define how many tracks should be included into the playlist -
I think now it's only 12 tracks..
Also, is there a way for the player to jsut load all my music into a
playlist, and play them randomly ?
(I'm using
On 7/19/06, mich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how the random mix mode works.. is there a wayfor me to define how many tracks should be included into the playlist -
I think now it's only 12 tracks..Also, is there a way for the player to jsut load all my music into aplaylist,
mich wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how the random mix mode works.. is there a way
for me to define how many tracks should be included into the playlist -
I think now it's only 12 tracks..
It automatically adds new random tracks to the end of the list each time
a track finishes. You can
At first I thought I was seeing the return of 'bug 2510'
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510), which was fixed.
(This was when Now Playing was one track behind what was actually
playing.)
But this is probably a different issue. About once an hour in Random
Song Mix playback, I
Apologies if this has been discussed or is a 3rd party plugin (and
really sorry if it is part of the standard functionality), but I did
search:
I really enjoy the Random song/artist/album etc functionality, but
wondered if it is / would be possible to have this Random functionality
work for
Just a minor bug to note regarding Random Mix: when I select Now
Playing will show 2 upcoming songs I only get one upcoming song on the
playlist.
Any other number seems to work fine.
Just posting here for comfirmation before I file a bug report. It's a
minor issue but it is a bug and 100%
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Klanderman wrote:
SS does support multiple, custom genres: you have to set the option to
allow multiple tags and tell it the separator you want to use. Seems
a number of people are using semicolon ;.
Aksherly that works rather well and it does what I need
I'm not sure how I can achieve this and I suspect it's not possible but
here goes anyway.
My Squeezeboxes are on random mix pretty much full time. That can give
me an issue if music with bad language is played at an inopportune time
such as when children or 'sensitive' people are in the house.
Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(It just occured to me that if I add pseudo-genres to music (bad
language, party, exercise...) I could exclude them based on genre but
is Slimserver capable of decoding multiple genres in a tag and is the
genre table for random mix populated based on
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Klanderman wrote:
I haven't tried Random Mix yet, but judging from threads on this forum
it does not yet support including and excluding genres which is really
needed for this to work right.
Oh yes, you're quite correct of course and I'd forgotten that. The
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Klanderman wrote:
SS does support multiple, custom genres: you have to set the option to
allow multiple tags and tell it the separator you want to use. Seems
a number of people are using semicolon ;.
Actually, thinking about this some more I'm a bit
Actually, thinking about this some more I'm a bit confused. ID3V2.3
supports multiple genres so shouldn't Slimserver just follow the
standard? (not that there are many programmes around that allow the input
of multiple genres in this way - ID3-TagIT is the only I've come across).
Slimserver
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richie wrote:
Slimserver does read multiple genres in separate tags.
Mp3tag and foobar2000 also allow you to set multiple genres in separate tags.
Ah thanks, It sounds like it's worthwhile me pursuing that line in case Random
Mix is ever updated to include
Slimserver is perfectly capable of handling multiple genres: check the
multiple items in tag in the behaviour settings.
Another question is what happens when you have the genre tag rap;indecent,
and start a random mix INcluding rap and EXcluding indecent.
I don't know, but I guess it still would
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], DSw wrote:
How about a single tickbox to choose whether you want inclusive or
exclusive behaviour?
dBpowerAMP Audio player (dAP - www.dbpoweramp.com) handles this in a
really nice way IMO. A tick box has three states - '-', '+' and space.
'-' means don't
I've tagged some of my DJ mixes with the Mix genre tag, together with
several other genre tags such as House, Techno etc. seperated by a
semi-colon.
These mixes tend to last at least an hour and I was hoping that I could
exclude them from Random Mix playlists by un-ticking the Mix genre in
the
I have some extended characters in my genres -- curly apostrophes and
the like. In the Browse Genres view, they render fine. In the Random
Mix Genre Selector view, not so nice.
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On 12/01/06, jonheal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have some extended characters in my genres -- curly apostrophes and
the like. In the Browse Genres view, they render fine. In the Random
Mix Genre Selector view, not so nice.
On the subject of RandomMix, is there any way to turn it off via the
Im running the following
SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 - 5404 - Linux - EN - iso-8859-1 on a
Linkstation (not the fastest but it does the job) Squeezebox 2 and
Softsqueeze. 10,000 songs all MP3
The problem I have is that the Random Mix, songs, will not work. When I
select it in the players nothing
as per the subject line. does this functionality exist?
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I recently upgraded my setup to 6.2.1 for SS and fw28 for SB2. I am
enjoying the new Random Mix feature, but would like to know if there is
away that SB2 could auto-adjust the volume since my FLAC files across
CDs have different volume levels.
TIA,
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When using random mix I find that tracks that I have excluded in iTunes
being played even though I have checked that I want these files
ignoring. If I attempt to find these tracks with search or browse they
are hidden so that bit works, so why does Random Mix pick them? Is this
a bug?
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:11:14PM +, Richie wrote:
Another thing is that currently there's no option to show the genre of
the song being played in the display settings, which would be nice to
check which genres are set wrong or cause annoyance...
There is if you use the Music Info
Hmm, I can't find the option to show the genre. To me it seems a lot
like the same plugin as the now playing one, except being slightly more
customisable.
Right, go to Server Settings Formatting Title format.
Add a new format - Genre
Next go to Server Settings Language
Change the
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:38:00PM +, Richie wrote:
Hmm, I can't find the option to show the genre. To me it seems a lot
like the same plugin as the now playing one, except being slightly more
customisable.
Right, go to Server Settings Formatting Title format.
Add a new format -
Hi all
I'm just wondering if I should file a feature request. I've just
discovered the Random Mix option, very nice, but the thing with genre's
is that they're pretty generic and some albums in a genre are very
likely to be unfit for random playing. And of course, there's so much
subjectivity in
Another thing is that currently there's no option to show the genre of
the song being played in the display settings, which would be nice to
check which genres are set wrong or cause annoyance...
There is if you use the Music Info Screensaver:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:11:14PM +, Richie wrote:
Another thing is that currently there's no option to show the genre of
the song being played in the display settings, which would be nice to
check which genres are set wrong or cause annoyance...
There is if you use the Music Info
I totally do not understand Random Mix. On my SB2 and Slimserver, when
I select Random Mix and then Random Songs, it selects 17 songs then
quits. I have the option of replaying those 17 songs or jumping
through hoops to get it to select another 17 songs (i.e., I typically
have to clear the
This may have been covered elsewhere, but using Random Mix in 6.2 I
noticed two things.
1. There is no way to stop adding songs in the hardware UI.
- This is annoying because at the end of every song, slimserver has to
find a new random song to add to the end of the list, resulting in a 20
G'day all,
I used to use 'obs' to play my mp3 collection before getting a
squeezebox.
It has a random play function with the added + of marking what it had
played and then not playing it until every other track had been
played.
I liked this feature and started to see how I could add it in, I
I never knew this feature existed! It's exactly what I've been after for ages. Installed it last night... perfect. Makes an amazing device even better.
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