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Three feature ideas from a new user

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torne:

--- Quote from: Bice on August 28, 2010, 12:15:17 AM ---I have about 10 gb loaded so far, and using the completely unscientific "thousand-1-thousand-2..." timing method, it takes around 20 seconds for RockBox to generate a playlist of everything on my iPod.  I'm assuming that as I add more music, that will take longer and longer.

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Do you have the directory cache enabled? If not, that would explain why it takes that long.

AlexP:
Dircache will make it hugely faster.

Bice:

--- Quote from: AlexP on August 28, 2010, 07:45:58 AM ---Dircache will make it hugely faster.

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It did indeed - down from around 20 seconds to around 2 seconds.

I'd still like to see a "random playlist of a specified number of songs" feature, but with the help I've gotten here, I can live without it.

The big ones were the # of items in the Artist and Album lists in the Database, and the amount of time left in the playlist.  The former seems like it would be an easy thing to do, and it'd be really useful for obsessive types like me.  The latter would be very helpful towards the end of the work day when I'm trying to figure out if I have enough time left to finish listening to a playlist.  The CD player that this iPod is replacing had a feature that showed the total time remaining on the disc, and I used that all the time.

On the plus side, I went for a 3+ hour bike ride today and had rockbox play a random playlist from all my MP3s.  It was awesome.  Made the ride much more enjoyable.

  -- Bob

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