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gevaerts:
Again, I think it depends on how you're trying to use it.

Controlling shuffle will work in general, but some edge cases (maybe common cases, but still on the edge!) might be a bit annoying. I'm going to assume a two directory setup (there might be subdirectories, but I'm not going to care about those), one of which has e.g. audiobooks, the other one music. I assume the user wants shuffle for music, not for other things.

Suppose you enable shuffle in the music config, and disable it for audiobooks, several things can happen:


* There's a playlist with both music and audiobooks (like soap described earlier). As soon as music plays, shuffle gets turned on, things play randomly until an audiobook track starts, after which shuffle gets turned off and audiobooks keep playing until the end. Most probably not what the user wants.
* The current playlist has only audiobooks. The user starts playing music (possibly from a playlist file, or maybe a database selection,...). The first track that plays will always be the same, after that behaviour is as expected. Not perfect, but possibly acceptable (adding a very short silent audio file named ' .mp3' will work around the issue...)
* The current playlist has only music (and is therefore shuffled). The user wants to listen to audiobooks. There are two cases
* This is a new audiobook, so the user selects the first track of the audiobook.
* If Play Selected First is enabled, things will work as expected
* If Play Selected First is *not* enabled, behaviour will be wrong
* This is an audiobook in progress, the user picks a bookmark. The playlist may look weird for a second until the settings are fixed, but I *think* the behaviour will be as expected.So in summary, I think that while shuffle can indeed mess up things if used without thinking, it would be possible to make a well-behaved system that can do shuffle.

soap:
This feature has been discussed at least two times in the past.

I think a more common usage case would be album-specific audio settings (EQ, etc.)   

oayz:

--- Quote from: soap on September 09, 2010, 10:53:56 AM ---I think a more common usage case would be album-specific audio settings (EQ, etc.)   

--- End quote ---
Shuffle was the one to make me open this thread. It's distructive - on few occasions I have it ON for playing music and forget to turn off switching back to audiobooks. 10 chapters later I relalized it's not a crazy athor, it's my stupidity :-)

Please remember that it's not simple music/books case. Even for music you may want to have shuffle of for album and on for compilations.

Llorean:
I find the easiest way to do this is to "insert shuffled" a folder I want to listen to shuffled, and never turn on the actual shuffle option. It works great.

oayz:
Thanks for the tip! If this thread will die I'd definetly use it. The problem is that most of the time I decide to shuffle when I already playing (got bored with same order). Also "insert shuffle" will not work for auto-change directory, will it?

Local config covers it all ...

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