Re: random album mode

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 11:31, Steven Adeff wrote:
> I'm in linux
> 
  Great then my patches apply to you.

> Here's some things I'm looking for Zinf to do. Mainly cause I have like 
> 140gigs worth of albums in mp3 format, and I have a computer running as my 
> firewall and is next to my stereo so I use it as a jukebox.

  That's a big music set.   I thought mine was big at 16Gb.

> First, have the option of sorting the My Music artists by letter(I have like 
> 600 individual "artists"), Lazy grouping of artists(so if theres So and So, 
> So and So with XYZ, So and So Quintet, etc they all get grouped under So and 
> So), Genre grouping(under my music have "By Artist" "By Genre", etc. or maybe 
> even a Music database similar to how WinAmp 3 does it), the ability to choose 
> output device(so i can choose oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 and play audio out of my 
> H+ card).

  Yup.. We've had similar feature requests.  Not sure how to do lazy 
grouping.. As all grouping is done by the tags in the files.  
We've also had request for file structure view of the files.
The extended by artist, by genre will probably go in after the next 
release.. I've got patches for this worked up.

I guess you are using soundcard.pmo.   I think you switch soundcards 
using  alsa, but I've been having problems with that driver.

> Finally, what would be real cool is a command line jukebox program, one that 
> can use the zinf database but be invoked by the command line. This would be 
> cool for people with computers set up as a music server. Then have zinf able 
> to connect to it from another computer to control its playback. That would be 
> awesome.

Doesn't this work if you set "allow only one instance "
and select  cmdline ui  
 zinf -ui cmdline [song] [playlist] .etc..




> On Wednesday 18 December 2002 01:10 pm, Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
> > Don't think so..  I'd have to look, but it's probably a quick
> > fix.
> >
> > Are you using window or linux.  I
> > am looking at using fam (file access monitor) under linux
> > to reduce polling and blocking in large trees
> > while tracking changes.
> >
-- 
Kristian G. Kvilekval
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