Re: [Banshee-List] Weighed shuffle mode - code proposal and cry for help.

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

2009/7/17 Brian J. Murrell <brian interlinx bc ca>:
> I like the idea of a weighted shuffle.  I think which attribute the
> shuffle is weighted on should be configurable though.

The Elena's patch has already landed in git master. In addition,
there's a new mode that shuffles by score instead of rating.

> For example, I like all of my music so weighting on track rating is more
> or less meaningless for me.  However given that I like all of my music,
> I'd like to weight based on number of plays so that all of my songs are
> at an even level of play counts.
>
> Right now, I have a pretty wide skew between my most played and least
> played and so I manually build play lists of the least played to try to
> even it out, but I am not hearing any of the most played.  I'd like to
> mix that up a bit, while bringing the play count up to even.
>
> The added bonus to this is that when I import a new bunch of tracks,
> chances are I want to listen to them more, as they are new.  This
> weighting will naturally achieve that for me.

There's a new bug [0] that proposes to split the shuffle option into
two: 'shuffle by' (song, album, artist) and 'based on' (none, rating,
score). The 'based on' could eventually be extended to include 'least
played', 'most played', etc.

[0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588889