Re: random album mode

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 03:32 pm, Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
>   Great then my patches apply to you.
saweeet

>   That's a big music set.   I thought mine was big at 16Gb.
yea, but it makes for a great jukebox =)

>   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.

implement lazy grouping by matching word pairs in the Artist tag, I've seen 
other programs that do it, I'm sure it will take a few iterations to get it 
to work right, but if you make it an option to use it or not, it won't really 
screw anything up.

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

check and see how XMMS does it, I use it currently to output to my em8300.

> > 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..

so if I ssh into my jukebox and run zinf -ui cmdline and then run zinf from my 
desktop it will control whats on my jukebox?

-- 
Steven Adeff
[email protected]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
AOLIM:"IndieRockSteve"



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