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Shuffle All via database w/o playlist

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Chronon:

--- Quote from: Walrus on December 11, 2009, 01:50:25 AM ---Given that the artist/album/etc sections of the DB have 'random' options on the menu, a kind of "generate random playlist" option of 50 or 100 tracks wouldn't be too out of place. 

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Given that you are building a particular playlist, you need to decide exactly how to build this playlist of 50 -- 100 entries.

You could, of course, also insert the root playlist shuffled into a new playlist to get a freshly shuffled list of all tracks.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: Walrus on December 11, 2009, 01:50:25 AM ---As I use the file browser rather than the database to play files, even if I compiled a new database, everything in it would be "never played tracks" so it wouldn't really change much.

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Solution to this seems kinda obvious to me, but maybe you have some particular aversion to the database?

However...

I believe using the database is the best option for you (especially if, as you said, there's a lot of music on your DAP that you've never even heard or hear rarely) if for no other reason than for it's ability to generate playlists of never played tracks/forgotten, recent and new favourites/and (if you get creative with tagnavi_custom) any sorting order you so choose to sort it by.

You could get it to display a "top 50/100 tracks" with only a minor amount of pissing-around, none if you know what you're doing.

This would stop the, queuing >40,000 tracks thing.

The file browser has it's uses....sure.

But I personally find the Database *incomparably* more useful than the file browser for the aspects I've explained above, the fact that it can be personalised to suit almost ANY sorting order is a HUGE bonus over the file browser in my opinion.

It performs the same functions as the file browser and a whole lot more, and can (I'm fairly sure) do what it is you're asking...



Sincerely,
[St.]

ClevelandTony:
Would be cool to have an option like this>

SHUFFLE > 50  random tracks
                > 100 random tracks
                > 250 random tracks

My previous 2 players had that option as well as
PLAY > 30 min of random music
         > 60 minutes
         > 2 hours

Certainly nothing I NEED as I am totally content with my playlisting options.

Walrus:
That's pretty much exactly what I was suggesting in lieu of a "shuffle all" option for the entire database.

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