Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Improved random patch (bug 163196 ish)

[eric casteleijn <thisfred gmail com>]

> that's funny. I've investigated the same thing, though without getting so far as to submit a patch.
> Especially I was interested in lowering the probability of very recent songs being replayed.

Slightly OT/tangential: In my (non-random) plugin 'autoqueue', I have a 
configurable number of days that a song is 'blocked' for, and the same 
for artists. That last part ensures even more variation.

Maybe allowing the number of days to be user configurable is a good 
idea? Two days seems rather arbitrary, and might be too long for some 
and too short for others. Maybe a logarithmically declining (meaning 
very sharply at first then levelling out) scale would be even better, or 
is that what you're doing? Hmm, I may want to do that...

(The following *really* has nothing to with random anymore, but I just 
got acoustic analysis working too, so my plugin no longer needs last.fm 
for similarity lookups. It's shaping up to work amazingly well! All the 
credit goes to the creators of mirage, a banshee plugin that I ported to 
python. My version is still a little rough for general use, but I will 
announce here when it's ready for prime time.)

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- eric casteleijn
http://thisfred.blogspot.com