Run-together tracks
"Timothy P. Long" <[email protected]>
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One thing that annoys me about all current jukebox applications is that they are fairly dumb about handling tracks that run together. To use a real example, I have a live album, where the music is interspersed with ‘talking bits’, each in their own track. In general, the banter in each ‘talking bit’ is an introduction or anecdote about the song that immediately follows, so the two tracks are only really meaningful if played together, in sequence. Now, in random or shuffle mode, those tracks get split up, which is a shame. It would be nice to find a way to designate a track as ‘only play before’ or ‘only play after’ another track, that the user can specify. So I would designate my ‘talking bits’ as ‘only play before’ the relevant song. I might also make the reverse association, but since the song makes sense on its own (but the talking bit does not) I would probably just make the association between talking bit and song. The idea would be that when “random” play is turned on, the randomizer would take account of these associations and not split up the related tracks. It might make for an interesting algorithm :-) Maybe that could be done using ID3v2 tags, or with a separate configuration file that the user can edit. Maybe at a later stage, there could be a GUI for setting up the associations. Food for thought. Tim Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT http://rd.yahoo.com/M=213858.1879370.3379539.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=1708298795:HM/A=763352/R=0/*http://www.classmates.com/index.tf?s=5085 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service .