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

Fine by me.

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 06:15  AM, Robert Moser II wrote:

> I like it, I'll probably put that in once I get off work today.
>
> At 01:39 PM 2/18/2003 +0100, Eivind Kj=F8rstad 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=20=20
>> about
>> "fixing" this 2) by the following (pseudocode)
>>
>> on end_of_playlist:
>>         if repeat=3Don and shuffle=3Don:
>>                 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=20=20
>> 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=20=20
>> bug
>> for "back". When I press "back" it's because I want to hear the last
>> song once more.)
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>         Eivind Kj=F8rstad
>
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