Re: [Banshee-List] "Party shuffle" extension?



On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 11:59 -0700, IBBoard wrote:
> 
> 
> Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:06 -0700, IBBoard wrote:
> > ...*snip*...
> >> 
> >> 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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> > 
> > 
> 
> I've managed to get a copy 0.4 from the Fedora build service (slightly
> ironic given that I thought the Suse build service was one of the great
> things about Suse!) and it is quite useful in its own way, but a) I tried it
> with a few songs and unless I was just really unlucky it only matched 8
> extra songs from my 2500 tracks, and b) it was mainly the "queue of random
> tracks" and "last few tracks just played" functionality that I liked from
> the Party Shuffle.
> 
> Thanks for the info, though :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> IBBoard
> 
Regarding (a), I believe that the playlist generated is a dynamic one,
such that if you finish playing that playlist, it will generate more.

-- 
Chow Loong Jin

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