Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
random selection
matthew1:
When a track is playing you randomly select (only one) and buffer the next track. Don't randomize the entire playlist at once. If you want to weight the selection by rating as an additional option, that's fine but necessary to me.
I suggest having both options. I'd use shuffle for small playlists and random (with or without weighting) for large playlists.
The Sansa Fuze Sandisk firmware does random (not shuffle). I have two mp3 players on my android phone and both do random (not shuffle). I'm guessing its because its easier to implement than a true shuffle.
[Saint]:
All this is very well and good, but we don't do feature requests at all, and what any original firmware does or does not do has zero impact on Rockbox.
If you want this, you'll either have to convince someone else to implement it (whom none of which have seen fit or necessary to do so in over a decade), or do it yourself. Its not entirely unlikely to enter upstream, but it is entirely unlikely to be implemented by any existing developer.
[Saint]
saratoga:
--- Quote from: xxmatthew on January 13, 2015, 07:13:49 PM ---When a track is playing you randomly select (only one) and buffer the next track.
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Thats not going to be acceptable most likely since it would screw up hard drive players.
JdGordon:
--- Quote from: [Saint] on January 13, 2015, 07:00:27 PM ---Our current system ensures that you will never, not ever, hear the same track in a shuffled playlist twice.
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except when the PRNG gods somehow decide to put the multiple copies of the same song (from different cds or live sets or whatever) right after eachother!
matthew1:
--- Quote from: saratoga on January 14, 2015, 09:15:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: xxmatthew on January 13, 2015, 07:13:49 PM ---When a track is playing you randomly select (only one) and buffer the next track.
--- End quote ---
Thats not going to be acceptable most likely since it would screw up hard drive players.
--- End quote ---
Are you thinking that the files in a playlist are somehow sequentially written on disk? I don't see how it would be detrimental to a hard drive.
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