Ok, the real scenario is this: - A shop with multiple players and multiple shop assistants - Big library and Pi3 server, USB drive, HFS+ filesystem (don’t ask) in the office. Scans and searches take a while. - The big library has 3 top folders, 2 virtual libs are created off 2 of these. - Morning at 7AM employees start coming in. A script fires. It finds available players, creates a sync group, sets the group leader to virtual lib 1, make it play random songs - Morning at 10AM customers start coming in. A script fires, puts players to sleep, re-does same as above but over a much safer library 2. - Evening 8PM the shop closes down. A script fires to put players to sleep. - Next morning 5AM, run a routine DB scan to get ready for the next day. - During the day a shop assistant may use the web interface and make manual selections. My automaton derails if Random mix was set to use a virtual lib in particular.
Back to your suggestion, I could perhaps at night after the rescan create 2 huge playlists. IÂ’m not sure how IÂ’d do that programmatically. But during the day people may want to use the web interface (actually they do, thatÂ’s why the problem has emerged). A library view is much superior to a playlist for my scenario, in that you can interact with whatÂ’s playing the way you want via the web interface, only youÂ’re in a sandbox. Playlists are much more static. 2 SB 3 1 PCP 6 Libratone Loop, Zipp, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9 (linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113861
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