On 8/19/05, Greg Klanderman wrote:
Slimserver doesn't actually support multiple genre tags per track
separated by semicolons, does it? Now that would definitely make
the genres a lot more useful..
From the Behavior portion of Server Settings:
SlimServer can extract multiple artist, album
Since this plugin is going to be part of 6.2 by default, I just thought
that I'd mention that it has a similar glitch to the one discussed in
this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15544
...except in the opposite direction.
At the Random Play root menu, press right, the menu
On 17-Aug-05, at 10:21 PM, dannyg wrote:
Can I get you to try the above settings on either the ALBUM, ARTIST or
TRACK level of your plugin? It would be great if this was the default
behavior while in the ALBUM/ARTIST/TRACK level.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you having a problem when
kdf,
I'm not having problems. I don't want to force anything on anybody,
its just that I thought that having those settings as a default would
make your plugin work a little better.
Being able to see the song name that is playing imediately after
pressing PLAY or FWD is preferable to just
Great Plugin!
The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able to restrict
the selection (of the tracks, album or artist) to specific genres.
Usually I want to hear a random selection of my songs but without songs
having the genre classical, audio book or children's songs. At the
seconded, that's a great idea.
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From: dip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in
Great Plugin!
The only improvement I would like to see is that I am able
I too agree with everything said before. Great plugin.
Maybe I shoud not re-start a plugin contest, but I really want to
express my admiration (again) for the Biography and the Album Review
plugin.
These are the two that really amazes my visitors!!
I'd also like to see these become part of
dip wrote:
It would be great if in the settings of the random plugin all genres
would be shown, each having a checkbox for inclusion in the random list
or not.
(apologies if the below describes something much like what is already
implemented, i don't use Shuffle/Random very often and don't
On 18-Aug-05, at 8:52 AM, ron thigpen wrote:
granted, this arrangement wouldn't directly support random playback of
mixed genres. though you could get there with a smart playlist set up
to filter down to multiple genres, played back in Random Play.
Having this kind of control was never
Robin Bowes wrote:
What's the difference between Random Play and Play with shuffle turned on?
i think it's in how you access it.
shuffle/random are the same concepts, no? it's all in how you make the
function available.
this scheme would give direct access to either standard or random
No, the difference is that
'play with shuffle' applies to the whole playlist already created
'random play' creates a playlist chosen randomly from all tracks
available
The key difference being that if you only want to listen to 30 minutes
of truly random music you don't need to create a
Quoting Robin Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What's the difference between Random Play and Play with shuffle turned on?
There were complaints that having shuffle on and playing the entire collection
would overload the server for a long time. The plugin took a different
approach, loading only 10
Craig, James (IT) wrote:
No, the difference is that
'play with shuffle' applies to the whole playlist already created
'random play' creates a playlist chosen randomly from all tracks
available
The key difference being that if you only want to listen to 30 minutes
of truly random music you
kdf wrote:
In track mode, after playing one track, it is dropped from the playlist and a
new random track is added to the end. In Artist/Album mode, when the last song
is playing, a new random artist/album is added to the end of the playlist.
This way, the load is very short.
ah. so the
Quoting ron thigpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
then maybe there is an argument for reworking the internal operations of
the standard shuffle to get this performance gain. one wrinkle would
be in avoiding repeats.
correct. the plugin calls a very barebones rand() function. it is not truly
random,
You said it well so I'll just say that I agree about the plugin.
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BBobley Wrote:
I'm posting this in praise of the Random Play plug-in (thanks kdf!).
This plug-in *really* should be made part of the standard installation.
Don't you just hate me too posts.
But what the hell, ME TOO
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Mr. KDF guru,
The following settings work great when used in conjunction with your
Random plugin. But of course they are not optimal when using other
menu items on the SB2; especially the 1 second screensaver delay.
-- Screensaver when playing: Now Playing (Jump back on wake)
-- Screensaver
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