Re: Shuffling and unshuffling (was Re: ID3 tag question)

I like it, I'll probably put that in once I get off work today.

At 01:39 PM 2/18/2003 +0100, Eivind Kjørstad wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
> > 2)  As it stands, reordering a shuffled playlist requires you to
> > unshuffle and reshuffle it, which means that, if you just let the
> > player run forever, you'll keep hearing your songs in the same order,
> > over and over again, unless manual action is taken.  A 'continuous
> > shuffle' would not repeat itself so readily.
>
>True. But the current system has other advantages. How do you feel about
>"fixing" this 2) by the following (pseudocode)
>
>on end_of_playlist:
>         if repeat=on and shuffle=on:
>                 unshuffle
>                 reshuffle
>
>This way you would not get the "shuffled, but fixed" effect that you
>mention above, but we would maintain the advantage of being able to do
>forward and back in a shuffled playlist and have that work as expected.
>
>(on my cd-player both "forward" and "back" selects a new *random* song
>when in shuffle mode, this is okay for forward, but I consider it a bug
>for "back". When I press "back" it's because I want to hear the last
>song once more.)
>
>Sincerely,
>         Eivind Kjørstad


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