Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Will work on shuffle/random.

[Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin mail utexas edu>]

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Colin Walters wrote:
| On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:13, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
|
|>1) Linear
|>2) Shuffle (re-randomize on repeat)
|
| If we're talking about what happens when shuffle is checked; clearly, I
| think it should shuffle.
|
| This means playing all the songs in a random order until all songs have
| been played.  If repeat is checked, then at that point a new random
| order is computed and the songs played through again.  If repeat is not
| checked, playback should stop.  Right?

Yes.

|
| Well, if you wanted to do this with multiple objects like this, you
| could break all the core forward/next logic out into separate objects
| from RBShellPlayer.  There would be RBSimplePlayController which would
| just get the next/previous entry from the entryview, and a
| RBShufflePlayController.  Repeat would be simple logic inside both of
| them.
|

For everyone else: in an IRC conversation we picked the base name
RBPlayOrder for now. If someone has a better name, I'm all ears. Oh, and
Simple will be Linear for now.

|
| I'm not sure where you're going with the GConf stuff; does anyone out
| there really want a purely random mode, or even a random weighted by
| rating or play count?
|

I'll be using random-weighted-by-rating myself, so all of you out there
who want the random options (hello? anyone? ;) despair not.
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