Re: ID3 tag question

Sorry for not following up earlier, but yesterday I
went up to Lake Tahoe visiting some friends. :-)

I saw the proposals to put the songs in question
together in one song and I agree, that this is
a valid solution.

But I would like to have both possibilities. Some-
thing like:
- Shuffle off
- Shuffle all songs (like it is now)
- Shuffle all songs, but don't touch tagged groups

I have currently implemented the third option, but
as mentioned earlier, I'm using the grouping ID3
tag in lack of a better one.

My 'solution' modifies the shuffle function in the
following way. When the function goes through the
playlist swapping songs and finds a song with the
grouping tag set, it ignores that song and continues
with the next one. If the randomly choosen position
for a song happens to be a song with the tag set,
I let the random generation run again, until it
finds a position that can be used.

What do you think about that idea?

And is there a better ID3 tag that could be used
for my idea?

Felix

--- In [email protected], dean blackketter <dean@s...> wrote:
> 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 <[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
> >



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