Re: Shuffling and unshuffling (was Re: ID3 tag quest ion)

Yes, but I discussed earlier the differences between random play and
shuffling the playlist. If we're talking about random play, there could
be any number of restrictions (play songs starting with 'A'
doubly-often). The simplest, however, seems to be "don't repeat" - think
of xmms's random mode.

Really, the mode should be "play each ong in the playlist in a random
order" - repetition should be handled by the Repeat All option.

I appologize to those of you who don't see (or care about) the
(seemingly semantic) differences here. I assure you, though, that there
is a real difference to some peope (me, for one), and I would argue that
since our userbase is guaranteed to have colletions of mp3s, they are
probably used to some of the features of software mp3 players - such as
random play mode.

-w

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:10:10PM -0800, dean blackketter wrote:
> Thats what we do now.  Shuffle takes the current playlist and scrambles  
> it around.  Every song gets played exactly once through.
> 
> On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 02:46  PM, Will McDonald wrote:
> 
> > The simplest (and most intuitive, perhaps just to me) weighing
> > mechanism is "don't repeat songs until everything has been played
> > once", i.e.  play each song in the playlist once per playlist.
> >
> > Does this make sense, at least as a starting point? What else would
> > people like?
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:21:28PM -0600, Moser, Robert L. II wrote:
> >> I'm neutral to full random, but in favor of weighted random (don't
> >> repeat the last X songs, don't play the same artist twice in a row,
> >> etc).

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