Bugzilla – Bug 2880
Turn shuffle on/off per alarm
Last modified: 2006-04-23 12:31:09 UTC
Many times I use the sleep timer at night with shuffle turned off. When the alarm turns on in the morning, the shuffle mode is still turned off which cuases the the same song to be played every morning from my 'wake_up' playlist. I'd like to be able to tell an alarm to shuffle the playlist assigned to it when triggered. This would help give me a random song within one of my set playlists in the morning. I've used the RandomSongMix plugin to sort of give me what I need, but I'd really like to specify exact songs that should be randomized for waking up to. Having the ability to automatically turn the shuffle mode on feels like a decent way to gain this functionality.
the alarm plugin offers this. but, I know how this argument always goes.
I didn't realize there was a plugin for this functionality. I'll give it a try and report back. In the meantime, I think this enhancement request is still useful as it would be nice to get this functionality without a plugin. But then again, this is the argument you mentioned... ;-)
OK, I've just messed with the Advanced Alarm Plugin (http://www.deane-freeman.com/slimserver/) and unfortunately, it doesn't do what I need. I still need the ability to do 8 separate alarms but to have each of them turn shuffle mode on when triggered. This plugin seems to only allow a single alarm to be set (although it's one heck of an advanced alarm). It would be nice to have the advanced alarm features found in this plugin as a part of the 8 built-in alarm system. As a side question, I was wondering what the point of specifying a name for an advanced alarm was when you can only have one of them. I figured a name was necessary so you could keep track of multiple alarms. Seems strange to me...
you can have ANY number of the advanced alarms just rename the file AlarmPlugin1.pm, AlarmPlugin2.pm, etc and edit the line14 to match AlarmPlugin1, etc (1 and 2 are in fact available for download from the same site, links are in the description). they will then each get an id, and when they activate, the name is used in teh now playing line. It gets to be a huge setting page, but there should be no limit to the number of alarms. One person is using them as an hourly playlist scheduler.
this is a plugin feature. going to close the bug.
That's a real shame since I feel the regular alarm feature could benefit from this single addition. Why can't something like this be added into the core alarm feature?