Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Random song choice

[Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net>]

>>>>> "JR" == John Russell  writes:

JR> On 12/17/06, Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net> wrote:

[...]

>> There are several "random" modes in rhythmbox, you might want to
>> check if you are using "shuffle" (sampling without replacement) or
>> a true random (sampling with replacement), you can check the
>> play_order gconf key:
>> 
>> /apps/rhythmbox/state/play_order
>> 
>> in the gconf-editor, the legal values are: "linear", "shuffle",
>> "random-equal-weights", "random-by-age", "random-by-rating".

JR> Is there a way to select between these in the UI?  If I set it to
JR> one of the random ones in gconf-editor, the shuffle button
JR> switches it back to shuffle and then linear.

Not as yet, see:  http://bugs.gnome.org/163196

There is a patch on that bug to add it to the UI, but hasn't been
committed to CVS because we didn't come to a consensus as to how to
add the feature to the UI without cluttering it up with a number of
different options that are rarely used by most users.

Alex

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