playlist generator

[Llorean]

Okay, seriously, what are you confused about?

You've agreed you need a list to choose from. Yet when I suggest doing it by MAKING a list and playing the first 50, you seem to think that will take more resources than your suggestion of picking 50 out of a list and playing them?

There is no difference in what has to happen in the background. The only difference is that in one you choose the number first, and then where it picks from second. In the other you choose where it picks from first, and the number second.

[Zardoz]

so as it stands, how can I choose 50 songs at random from among all my songs?

[Llorean]

You can't yet. As I said much earlier in this thread, you'd currently use a sleep timer, and it would make most sense for this to just evolve from the sleep timer by allowing it to stop instead of shutting down, and play a number rather than just a time.

[Zardoz]

and play a number rather than just a time.

precisely. Thanks for your replies dude.

[bzavala]

I also like the idea. How about using the DataBase and the tagnavi.config file?

You know how we have to define a format to display the data? We already have a %limit modifier. So we need a new modifier, kinda like the %sort. It could be called %random, for instance.

So in your tagnavi_custom.config file, you'd define this format entry:

%format "fmt_random_50"  "%s - %s" artist title %random %limit = "50"

Then you can define as many menu items you want. For example:

"Random 50"    -> title = "fmt_random_50"
"Beatles 50 Random" -> title = "fmt_random_50" ? artist = "The Beatles"
"Alternative Random 50" -> title = "fmt_random_50" ? genre ~ "Alternative"


"Random 50" would bring 50 random songs from all your songs.
"Beatles 50 Random" brings 50 random Beatles songs.
"Alternative Random 50" well.. you get the idea.

You can add multiple formats if you want 50, 100 or 1000 instead of only 50.

Oh... I could have so much fun with this!!!


just my 2 cents...


Ben

[Llorean]

Again, what functionality does this offer that simply making the sleep timer accept a number of songs, and have an option to stop, wouldn't have?

[bzavala]

The tagnavi_custom.config file would be a one time setup, and each time you want to listen your songs at random, it'd be as simple as selecting an option from the Database menu items.

[Llorean]

And it would make the feature dependent on the database, and completely useless for people who won't or can't use it.

Meanwhile, you can reproduce it globally, and more flexibly, with the other method.

[Zardoz]

how about making it a context only feature so that when a folder is long selected, under the Playlist option there's another option to 'Create Random' and then to choose a number of files to include?

[Febs]

I think that the point that Llorean has already made repeatedly, and which you haven't really addressed, is that you can already do this by using the "INSERT SHUFFLED" function.  The only functionality that would need to be added is the ability to stop after X number of songs, which could be addressed through the sleep timer.

[Zardoz]

but hang on it's not a 'stop after x number of tracks' it's an add 'x number of tracks, randomly'. as it stands if one chooses to 'add',shuffled'  to a playlist and has specified 'x' number of tracks in the limits setting, then one gets a playlist of the first 'x' number of tracks in that directory, shuffled. Am I completely wrong in my understanding?

[GodEater]

I'm locking this thread now. I think those that understand what the rockbox experts have said have got the gist of it, and Zardoz is clearly never going to understand what we've said.