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config per directory?

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Yotto:

--- Quote from: oayz on September 09, 2010, 01:22:13 PM ---
--- 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.)   

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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.

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Maybe you can do what you are looking for with bookmarks?

I have two bookmarks (actually I have many, but two that matter for this discussion). The first is for all of my music. It's a shuffled playlist (m3u file that's in alphabetical order, but Rockbox has shuffle turned on). The second is of all my podcasts. It's a directory, with no m3u file, and Rockbox handles it as a dynamic playlist. It is NOT shuffled.

I never ever have to modify the "shuffle" setting. Playing the music bookmark loads it shuffled and I'm happy. Playing the podcast bookmark loads it not shuffled and I'm happy.

oayz:
Yes, sounds like another way to handle shuffle. I could also have shuffled and non-shuffled m3u's.

The point is local CFG provides complete solution. Shuffle, EQ, timeouts ... everything. Shuffle is the biggest issue, EQ is the next one. Someone may have directory for parties - with crossfade etc.

To Confuseling:

I think we already have the infrastructure: we can save theme settings or audio settings or both. Maybe control settings should also be separate. If we could only browse cfg files and overwrite existing ones w/o having to type filenames ... (this was already mentioned in another thread)

Chronon:
I would probably use it mostly to set crossfeed on/off by directory (album).

pabouk:
I personally would like to have just about 3 - 5 different configurations for distinct directories (inherited in all their subdirectories). So for me there is no need to store the local configs to the involved directories. If it makes implementation easier / more efficient the local configs could be at a central location (for example in .rockbox/config directory or in a single .cfg file).

Which setting I would like to vary between directories:
- auto bookmarking
- default speed of playback (not possible in the configuration file at the moment)
- crossfeed
- maybe EQ
- maybe shuffle
- maybe skip length

In addition (sorry for little off-topic in this thread) it would be great if Rockbox traces completely listened files (listened from beginning to end) or files manually marked as listened so they could be later automatically moved / deleted (either files or references in a playlist) by a plug-in. I think many podcast listeners would welcome this functionality.

soap:
I've seen crossfeed mentioned several times in this thread in connection with audiobooks / podcasts.

What is the audio disadvantage of having crossfeed on with these types of audio?

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