Re: [Banshee-List] Shuffle playlist plugin

[Trick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Pat,

This looks cool - it kinda works for me but it doesn't remove tracks 
from the playlist
after played.  It also double-adds when I remove a single track.  The 
code looks
good...maybe the PlayerEngineCore has changed in my cvs version and 
that's why the
automatic removal doesn't work.  I haven't looked.  The code looks good 
tho (this is
how I'd implement it if I were you).

I've actually been thinking lately about writing something similar to 
this.  What I'd
like to do (and I think other plugins for itunes or amarok probably do 
this) is set it
up so it's not actually pseudo random, but "intelligent random" so that 
it will pick
music that is "similar" to it (eg by maybe picking two or three songs 
by a single
artist and then finding the next by picking songs from the same genre.  
It could get
really advanced and choose tracks based on a service like last.fm or 
something (but
that might be a bit much for now!).

Maybe I'll hack at this sometime and see if I can hack up something on 
the intelligent
random stuff I talked about.  I'll also see if I can figure out the 
problem with not
removing tracks...

Good stuff!  LMK if you make any more changes, I'd be curious to see :)

-Patrick

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----- Message from pat thepatsite com ---------
   Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:57:42 -0400
   From: Pat Rondon <pat thepatsite com>
Reply-To: banshee-list gnome org
Subject: [Banshee-List] Shuffle playlist plugin
     To: banshee-list gnome org


> I've put together a shuffle playlist plugin that works like the dynamic
> mode in Amarok or (I assume) party shuffle in iTunes - it maintains a
> playlist of 20 randomly-chosen songs, automatically removing the ones
> that have been played.  It may be a little hackish.
>
> Tarball: http://www.patrondon.org/src/shuffle-playlist-plugin.tar.bz2
>
>  - Pat
>
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