Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
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:
--- Quote from: Llorean on July 08, 2008, 09:34:11 PM ---and play a number rather than just a time.
--- End quote ---
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
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