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True random playback?

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supervisor:
Hi! I love Rockbox and am fully satisfied with it, but what would make it perfect for me is if I could find a setting that would let me play back playlists in a true random order, similar to the foobar2000 definition.


--- Quote from: foobar2000 ---Random mode picks tracks randomly, without special measures to prevent track repetitions other than a simple check to prevent the same track from playing twice in a row.
--- End quote ---

So, if I have tracks A, B, C, D & E in my playlist, a possible list of songs I would hear would go like C, A, D, A, E, B, D, C etc. In other words, if I hear a song in a five-song playlist, I would like there to be the possibility to hear the song again before the other four have been played.

Is it possible in the current build somewhere or am I asking for too much?

Thanks in advance!

torne:
No, we only have two kinds of random playback: shuffle with or without reshuffling on repeat. Both will play each track exactly once each time around the playlist.

soap:
Duh!  http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo/rockbox-buildch11.html#x14-30600011.4.13

Put ALL your tracks in individual folders for each and every single track, and turn on random folder advance.  ;)

EDIT:  Hmm, all joking aside, I'm not sure this will work.  I thought the list of possible folders was checked every time playback reached the end of the current folder, but reading the manual it sounds as if the next folder is predetermined by the plugin???

williamskg6:
I would like to add my vote to a request for a random playback mode (as opposed to a shuffled playlist).  This has been covered before, but here's my scenario:

My family is Rockboxing out in the car on a playlist of the kids' songs.  The songs should play in random order, which is possible with the Shuffle option, but invariably one of the kids will ask for a specific song.  In a list of potentially thousands of songs, it's very very difficult to find a particular song in a shuffled list.  So, instead of a shuffled playlist, the playlist stays sorted (making it easier to find the song that was requested), but the playback mode is random.

This is how I run every music player and mp3 playing software.  Specifically, on my computer I use Foobar2000, and have grown accustomed to its random playback.  I would greatly love to see a random playback feature added to Rockbox.  Please!  You don't need to remove the shuffle - just add a random playback mode.  Pretty please!

Being able to group songs by album or artist in playlist view would be fantastic too, but that may be too many requests for one posting...

Llorean:
If you use the shuffle playback mode instead of shuffling the playlist in advance, you can simple turn it off to see the files in your playlist in-order. This is already possible.

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