Re: Re: ID3 tag question

I see.

We have had a request for "shuffle albums" as opposed to the current  
"shuffle songs" model.

In the absence of a good grouping ID3 tag, you mentioned grouping your  
songs into virtual disc sets.  I think that this might be a good  
approach.

-dean


On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 08:22  AM, fcm4711 <fcm4711-/[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Dean
>
> Ok, I'll give you two examples:
>
> DJ Bobo - There Is A Party - two songs (1, 2)
> Chris de Burgh - Into The Light - three songs (10, 11, 12)
>
> The artist deciced to make two or more songs that
> belong together and should always be played in the
> same sequence/order and no other songs should be
> in between.
>
> DJ Bobo: 4, 1, 2, 8, 9 but not 6, 4, 2, 3, 1
> Chris de Burg: 9, 4, 10, 11, 12 but not 7, 11, 10, 2, 12
>
> Felix
>
> --- In [email protected], Jonathan Greene <atmasphere@a...>
> wrote:
>> what I have noticed is that the shuffle is a mystery until the next
>> track kicks in and shows as the active playing song.  Otherwise the
>> playlist remains in the order it was built.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 10:44 AM, dean blackketter wrote:
>>
>>> Felix,
>>>
>>> Can you explain what you mean by "songs that should stay in the
> correct
>>> sequence"?
>>>
>>> -dean
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 12:37  AM, Felix Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>>> The current shuffle mode doesn't take care of
>>>> songs that should stay in correct sequence.
>>>>
>>>> I modified the shuffle mechanism, so that tagged
>>>> songs are not shuffled anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know if there is an ID3 tag defined for
>>>> this purpose?
>>>>
>>>> I currently use the tag for 'sets of discs', because
>>>> I can set this tag easily in iTunes, but I would
>>>> like to use the 'correct' ID3 tag.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a particular reason why the shuffle routine
>>>> puts the current playing song at the beginning of
>>>> the playlist?
>>>>
>>>> Felix
>>>>
>
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