On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:06 -0700, IBBoard wrote: > I'm experimenting with a move from Exaile to Banshee (I'm in a mood for > change - Fedora to openSuse, Eclipse PDT to Geany, and now this :D) and I > thought it might have a "party shuffle" plugin/extension with similar > behaviour to iTunes and Amarok. > > There has been an extension for it back in 2006 > (http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.mono.banshee/2006-04/msg00105.html) but the link > is dead and it probably isn't compatible with the latest Banshee. Apparently > Amarok has had "party shuffle" functionality for ages, as has iTunes, but > none of the Gnome players seem to have it. > > I know I can create dynamic/smart playlists, but I want to have the "party > shuffle" functionality of showing the last X (normally 5, I think) played > songs and a random queue of Y songs (normally about 20) that you can remove > songs from and rearrange. I know I can just use the standard shuffle, but > back when I used Windows and iTunes I found it useful to see the recently > played songs and remove songs I didn't want before they even started. > > If anyone knows of any plugins or thinks it would be interesting to add (or > has any other information :) ) then that'd be great. You might want to take a look at the Mirage extension : http://hop.at/mirage/ It might not do exactly what you want, the songs it suggests are not random, they're similar to the one(s) you've started the playlist with. -- Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> > http://flickr.com/photos/bl8/ <
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