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iRiver H120: Shuffle Selections w/o Shuffling the Playlist?

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ebounding:
Since I'm driving I like to keep my eyes on the road as much as possible.  That's why it would be a lot easier to just scroll down an alphabetical playlist than to go through the file tree to queue a song.  Currently, I do browse through the files to queue a song since it's sometimes easier than unshuffling and reshuffling the playlist.  Browsing is easier when your attention doesn't need to be paid elsewhere, but when you're driving, it's easier to just hold down the joystick to scroll.  I found this to be ideal in the earlier builds since my playlists are only around 200 or less songs.

So what I want to know is if there's any way to return to this as in the earlier builds.  Or is there another method that will allow me to view my playlist unshuffled and return to the WPS shuffled in less than 5 moves.  I don't really want to go back to the earlier builds so I might just have to deal with this.

thanks

bascule:

--- Quote from: ebounding on December 08, 2006, 09:41:47 AM ---So what I want to know is if there's any way to return to this as in the earlier builds.  Or is there another method that will allow me to view my playlist unshuffled and return to the WPS shuffled in less than 5 moves.
thanks

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No, unless you are willing and able to dive into the code and write a patch that gives you what you want.

I see your need, but I don't think there is an easy way around it... :(

Llorean:
I'm also somewhat uncertain Rockbox ever worked the way he described, since it was aways a "shuffle" feature, rather than a random feature, and it's been a true shuffe pre-h100 (though I didn't look at my playlist in the early days of h100, I imagine if it didn't display a shuffled playlist, that it was actually considered a bug that it didn't rather than an intentional function).

ebounding:
Ideally it'd be nice if I could just turn shuffle on and off (A-B) while actually viewing the playlist.  Is there already a patch out there that could do this?

bascule:
Not that I can find doing a quick search on 'shuffle' in the patch tracker (link), but maybe you are more motivated to search deeper?

I presume you do use the quick menu (from WPS, press and hold the Menu button) to switch shuffle on and off?

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