Re: Random play question

I'm a "potential customer" at
the moment. (The $250 is hard to come

up with though ;(

>From the FAQ:

Does the SliMP3 have a random mode?

Yes. The SliMP3 lets you play mp3s in random order, either
for

a single folder or for folders of folders. For example, if you
had

your music organized by genre/artist/album, you could go to
your

"Rock" folder to hear random "Rock" tracks
for any artist/album, or

you could go to "Rock/ACDC" to hear random ACDC
songs.

That FAQ needs to be updated. You can browse and play your
music as it's organized on your disk, but with the 2.0 version you can
browse by Genre, Artist and Album too.

I saw on a Kenwood 200 disk changer that
they have 8 genres that you

can assign any disk to and then random play from one of those
genres.

I thought this was a cool feature.

Is there anything being done for a random based on the genre id3

tag? I have 4 or 5 major genres that I listen to. I don't want to

organize them into a genre/ directory structure. But, I do have
all

the genre tags set.

Then you should be all set. With the 2.0 version of the
server, you can browse and play by Genre as set in the ID3 tags.

Random (aka Shuffle) play of songs works like this:

1. Choose some songs to add to your current playlist by browsing
and pressing PLAY or RECORD. The PLAY button clears the playlist
and puts the current selection on the playlist. The RECORD
button adds songs to the end of the playlist. (For example,
browse into "Genres" and select "Rock".
Pressing PLAY at this point puts every Rock song in the
playlist. Select "Jazz" and press RECORD to add
all the Jazz songs to the playlist too.)

2. Then press the the OK button on your remote to shuffle them in
a random order.

3. Press the OK button again to unshuffle them.

Hope this helps...

-dean