Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Jukebox playlist

[David Hammerton <david craz net>]

iTunes has an awesome feature like this called 'Party Shuffle' which  
would be great to see in Rhythmbox.

You can see the details here (including a screenshot):  
http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists.html

Basically it keeps a list of X songs constantly there, refilled with  
random songs. It also displays the previous Y songs played, so you can  
see what was last played. Where X and Y are user configurable.
So its sort of auto-random, but you can select what playlists/library  
to select the songs from.
Furthermore, its not just purely random - you can select your own  
stuff. Ie drag any songs from your library to the Party Shuffle list  
and they stay there, drag-and-drop to re-order them, remove them  
easily, and so on. Its really awesome :)

Cheers

David


On 16-May-04, at 8:41 PM, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:

> Hello Jacob:
>
> The idea of queuing up songs for playback has been discussed to in the
> past, but the arguments for the idea have not yet persuaded those that
> actually do the work.  Here is a link to an old message from me which
> sparked a one of those discussions:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2003-September/ 
> msg00067.html
>
> Regards.
>
>    Gisli
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 10:38, Jacob Emcken wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I don't really use playlists because I like just to listen to all my
> > music and let Rhythmbox shuffle through it. But sometimes I feel like
> > listening to one or more specific songs in a row and then revert to
> > shuffle mode.
> >
> > I think it could be great to have some sort of jukebox playlist where
> > you could drag songs to. If the jukebox list contained songs they  
> > would
> > be played before anything else. Rhythmbox would play the first song on
> > the list and after playback it would be removed from the jukebox list
> > and jumping to the next song on the list until empty.
> > When the list is empty Rhythmbox would revert to playing (shuffled)
> > songs from the music library.
> >
> > Then if you feel like listening to a few specific numbers you can drag
> > them to the jukebox list without having to stop the current number or
> > sit waiting for the song to finish.
> >
> >
> > I hope that this subject haven't allready been dicussed... I have  
> > tried
> > to search the archives and follow the list for while to make sure that
> > it haven't - but you never know :)
> > If this funcionality is allready in Rhythmbox I'm sorry... haven't  
> > been
> > able to find it.
> >
> >
> > Many thanks for a great music player
> > --Jacob
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