Support and General Use > Audio Playback, Database and Playlists
True random playback?
Llorean:
I'd imagine that's probably going to run into the "too many button presses" problem that turning off shuffle does, in many cases. Though, in others (or with a well organized player) it'd actually be far more efficient, button press wise, than even a random playback through a sorted list would.
JdGordon:
true random playback has been something brought up a few times, bassically noone has put the effort into doing it. I don't think it would be overly complicated to add (alongside shuffle, not as a replacement) so it just means someone needs to provide a patch.
there would be a problem with m3u playlists being random-ed (as apposed to shuffled) but i dont tihnk that would kil any chance of a patch being accepted.
williamskg6: for your scenario, the best way would be to just go into the file/database browser and use the playlist context menu to insert next (assuming you know where the file is in either of those browsers)
matthew1:
I agree with the original post. Right now once a song plays, I know I will not hear it again for a long time. This is sad. I'd like every song to get an equal chance of playing every time. I wouldn't mind if the same song plays twice in a row, but that would be rare. Is there a technical reason Rockbox can't do this? The original Fuze firmware did it. If I go back a track and then skip, I would get a different song. My stock android player also works this way. It's important. I might go back to the fuze firmware for this reason.
One way to implement this; is to shuffle after every song. If someone wants only a shuffled playlist then they can turn shuffle off or have a "shuffle once" option.
--- Quote from: supervisor on December 02, 2010, 04:13:14 PM ---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.
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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!
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saratoga:
--- Quote from: xxmatthew on August 08, 2012, 09:54:00 AM --- Is there a technical reason Rockbox can't do this? The original Fuze firmware did it. I
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Take a look at the post immediately above yours.
chrisjj:
For anyone else directed here by Googling for shuffle problems...
--- Quote from: Llorean on December 07, 2010, 02:38:43 PM ---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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It sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/13102
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