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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Good or bad idea?Re: Good or bad idea?
From: Paul \ <paul_at_gamingmp.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:24:05 +0000 One patch I was considering implimenting is a weighting patch for mp3 files which stored a seperate database of the weighting, IE +1 would mean it would be slightly more likely to play on random, -1 would mean it woudl be slightly less woudl be CPU intensive though. Paul Brian wrote: > One day i was listening to my Rockbox, on random play all like i always > do, and i heard a song that i absolutely love, but havent heard in a > very long time. And i thought about some songs that just so happen to > play more often than others, etc... This happens because I usually want > to listen to a specific song at one point, and dont want to go through > the 5-button combo (3 to queue, 1 to return to WPS, and 1 to hit next to > the next song), i lose the point of which i was in the 1000-song > shuffled playlist. Then, when i decide to go back to random mode, i > play the playlist and it reshuffles. > > So, the problem? I want to know what the best way to make sure i listen > to every song at least once before i hear the same song three or four > times. And if we can all agree on one way that this can be changed, > maybe this change can be implemented in CVS. > > I say this: Want to play a song, but then return to the playlist at the > same spot? Well, my idea would be to have "play" and "queue" exchanged > in the browser. So if you press play, that song would be queued, and > possibly at the same time rockbox would hit "next," which would do the > same thing (on rockbox as it is now) as queueing the file, then pressing > next. If you still want the option to queue without playing, that could > be another option in the ON + PLAY menu (queue). To play a song (which > would in current rockbox include all other songs in that directory), > that option can be put into the ON + PLAY menu as well (play directory). > > Any comments on this would be helpful. I just put this in because I > have lots of accidents where i lose my place in the playlist because i > accidentally hit play on a song to hear it. > > If any of this confuses you, just ask... i'm pretty hard to understand > sometimes. > > Brian Received on 2003-10-28 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |