Bugzilla – Bug 1313
add iTunes-like party shuffle
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:13:22 UTC
(customer requested feature) possibly with some of the following enhancements: - playing songs that are often played together - playing songs that are often played (i.e. hitlist) - some basic AI to make sure that things don't get too random - predictive list that will show you the next 10-20 songs queued up - history (maybe the last 5-10 songs played)
The request came from me. I'll be satisfied with any feature that lets me start from an empty playlist, click a couple links, and have random music play. Maybe just a button to add 20 random songs. The only way I can do this now is add my entire library and put it on shuffle. This overloads my puny server, and results in an overwhelmingly large playlist.
Will, I have a plugin for Windows XP & iTunes that reads from the iTunes party shuffle playlist. www.jamescraig.co.uk/SlimServer/ I might be able to get it to work on the Mac if anyone's interested.
Well, I think the idea is that it'd work on any platform.
I'm pleased to note that "Random Play" from http://callisto.deane-freeman.com/slimserver/ almost completely satisfies my needs related to this bug.
should we maybe integrate it?
kdf - what do you think? I can clean up Random.pm and get it checked in. Web interface too?
If you really want to use it, its yours. Its very basic, however. Strictly plain vanilla perl rand function. none of the initial enhancements in this report exist, except for item 4. I'll gracciously ignore the 'clean up' comment ;)
okay, well, I can check in the latest version of the plugin and we can fix from there. Or, what do we need to have done before it goes in? I can certainly add the integration to the alarm as I have for the plugin version, or perhaps being part of the core means the random code could tie in with a specially named plugin. if a web interface is needed, what should it look like?
I'm working on it already.
Check it in as-is for now. Dan: what are your plans? One thing I'd like to see is some kind of indicator that we're in a kind of dynamic playlist mode. Possibly the Now Playing screen could have some indicator on the top, but I haven't thought it completely through.
Please don't check it in yet. I'm working on the web UI right now.
Uh, ok. I'm curious, what's that UI going to do?
Initial version checked in as subversion change 4113 Please open new bugs for any additional modifications.