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
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
seconded, that's a great idea.
- Original Message -
From: dip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
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
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,
11 matches
Mail list logo
