Re: Re: ID3 tag question

I'm not sure which tag you are talking about and I don't think that  
most tag editors support it.

I'd prefer to have shuffle albums, which is more generally useful and  
easier for folks to understand.

If somebody _really_ wants to keep songs together, they can tag their  
songs to have multiple virtual albums of grouped songs per physical  
album, either by using unique album names or disc set tags.


On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 04:51  PM, fcm4711  
<fcm4711-/[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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