[slinkelist] Random play in newest version

[Mike Kropp]

What about adding a 1a) hasn't already been played?  Make it more of a
shuffle than a random.

--Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> Behalf Of Colby Boles
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: Larry Laurel; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Random play in newest version
>
>
> oops. it actually works exactly as I designed it to, it's just that it
> wasn't a good design criteria. It tries to randomly select things
> which (in
> order of priority)
>
> 1. aren't already in the playlist
> 2. aren't from the same player
> 3. have a short queue time
>
> when you have only one player, criteria #2 will always fail, and
> so it goes
> to #3, which can only be satisfied by picking a track from the
> same disc as
> the previous track. I'll see what I can do.
>
> Colby
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > Behalf Of Larry Laurel
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:15 AM
> > To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > Subject: [slinkelist] Random play in newest version
> >
> >
> > 	Last night I downloaded and installed the 9/26/00 build of CDJ.
> > This all went off without a hitch, but when I select random
> play (this is
> > called "shuffle" on the toolbar and "random" on the menu bar)
> to populate
> > the playlist I get songs from a single CD only.  Clearing the playlist
> > repopulates it in the same way from a different (probably
> > randomly selected)
> > CD.
> > 	Colby, is there a new option in CDJ to control this behavior, or is
> > this an intentional change, or do I hear you mumbling OOPS :-)  It would
> > also be nice if random play could use the built-in shuffle mode in the
> > changer.  It is MUCH more random than that provided by CDJ (in earlier
> > versions).
> >
> > TIA,
> > Larry
> >
> >
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