Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Jukebox playlist

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli adams com>]

Yes, the idea of the application helping keep the queue full
is very good because it avoids the risk of "dead air" -- the
ultimate party killer.

Gisli


On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 12:14, David Hammerton wrote:
> iTunes has an awesome feature like this called 'Party Shuffle' which  
> would be great to see in Rhythmbox.
> 
> You can see the details here (including a screenshot):  
> http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists.html
> 
> Basically it keeps a list of X songs constantly there, refilled with  
> random songs. It also displays the previous Y songs played, so you can  
> see what was last played. Where X and Y are user configurable.
> So its sort of auto-random, but you can select what playlists/library  
> to select the songs from.
> Furthermore, its not just purely random - you can select your own  
> stuff. Ie drag any songs from your library to the Party Shuffle list  
> and they stay there, drag-and-drop to re-order them, remove them  
> easily, and so on. Its really awesome :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> David
> 
> On 16-May-04, at 8:41 PM, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
> 
> > Hello Jacob:
> >
> > The idea of queuing up songs for playback has been discussed to in the
> > past, but the arguments for the idea have not yet persuaded those that
> > actually do the work.  Here is a link to an old message from me which
> > sparked a one of those discussions:
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2003-September/
> > msg00067.html
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >    Gisli
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 10:38, Jacob Emcken wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I don't really use playlists because I like just to listen to all my
> >> music and let Rhythmbox shuffle through it. But sometimes I feel like
> >> listening to one or more specific songs in a row and then revert to
> >> shuffle mode.
> >>
> >> I think it could be great to have some sort of jukebox playlist where
> >> you could drag songs to. If the jukebox list contained songs they  
> >> would
> >> be played before anything else. Rhythmbox would play the first song on
> >> the list and after playback it would be removed from the jukebox list
> >> and jumping to the next song on the list until empty.
> >> When the list is empty Rhythmbox would revert to playing (shuffled)
> >> songs from the music library.
> >>
> >> Then if you feel like listening to a few specific numbers you can drag
> >> them to the jukebox list without having to stop the current number or
> >> sit waiting for the song to finish.
> >>
> >>
> >> I hope that this subject haven't allready been dicussed... I have  
> >> tried
> >> to search the archives and follow the list for while to make sure that
> >> it haven't - but you never know :)
> >> If this funcionality is allready in Rhythmbox I'm sorry... haven't  
> >> been
> >> able to find it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Many thanks for a great music player
> >> --Jacob
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