Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-19 Thread Steve Bernard, Jr
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread dijon
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread ron thigpen
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread ron thigpen
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

RE: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread Craig, James (IT)
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread kdf
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread ron thigpen
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread ron thigpen
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

Re: [slim] Re: Praise for 'Random Play' Plug-in

2005-08-18 Thread kdf
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,