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

Great ideas. Can't wait to see it in place.

What about preventing the list from reshuffling after a song is removed. I=
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have accidently removed a song (and intentionally too) and been frustrated=
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that the list reshuffles.

Thoughts??

ChriS



At 07:36 AM 2/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>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
> >> 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
> >> 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 Kj=F8rstad
> >
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