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Easy way to clear the playlist without stopping play?

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mborus:

--- Quote ---Start your player
Press 'Stop', so that you return to the File Browser/Database view
Navigate to your first track of the day
Press and hold select/navi/joystick on the file and select "insert" (as per Febs' suggestion)
[Track starts playing in a playlist of 1]
Change to Party Mode

...et voilá!
--- End quote ---

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Alas this way I need to re-boot whenever I want to get a clean playlist.
This is OK for the beginning of the party, but not what I'm looking for. I'm looking
for a way to dump the current playlist in mid-party (when the mood changes and
you suddenly realise that the 20-something tracks coming up need to go)

I had already found the work-around you mentioned.
There's also another one that works without re-booting, but is even more annoying:
First I have to leave party mode. Then I use the search function to search for the track in a way that only the one result is displayed and then wait for the current track to finish and then start this on manually at the last second of the currently playing track. Now I can enter Party mode again.

This is not really practical...

bascule:
That's definitely a tricky problem...  :-\

How about this:

Set Crossfade setting to 'Track Skip Only' (to avoid ruining your normal running)
When the mood changes, navigate to the song you want to play next and do Playlist>Insert Last
View the playlist and scroll down to the last track then select it
Rockbox will then crossfade into that song and you will have a clear playlist ahead of you

Don't know how this will work with Party mode, I've never used that.

Also, consider setting up a couple of themes (titled '1-party on' and '2-party off' so they sort to the top) containing just the Party Mode setting, to make it easier to change in and out of that mode...

Beyond this, I think I'm fresh out of ideas  :(

nls:
I think I have a solution to your problem. Create a playlist of the songs you want to play in the playlist catalog and then insert that playlist next in the current one, it will however not clear the songs that were there previously. Or you could load that playlist on a trackchange, and perhaps make it fairly seamless, or maybe crossfade on trackskip works with playlists too...

ctt:
Took a stab at this.  See http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6464 (and original request, http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/2730).  The patch should allow you to take your time preparing the list and move to it with a crossfade, when everything's ready.

Feedback would be appreciated as this is my first patch.

mborus:
Thanks for the patch. This is exactly the behaviour I'm looking for.


--- Quote ---Feedback would be appreciated as this is my first patch.
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It'll test this after christmas (I'll be offline for a few days)
and post some feedback afterwards.

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