Fwd: RE: [slinkelist] Random play in newest version

[Jeff Schaffer]

1. That part I understood. If you perform a query, tracks are 
selected from the list of results from the query. My point was that a 
played track eventually falls off of the playlist. Does this make it 
eligible to be selected again during the same session?

If so, the only guaranteed way would be to keep a list of all tracks 
played in the current session and never select anything already in 
the list. If that leaves nothing to select, clear the list and start 
over. Using 1 bit to record whether a track has been played, I'd 
allocate 4 bytes per slot (up to 32 tracks per disk, still have to 
handle exceptions for disks that have more than 32 tracks) so you 
could track the play history of over 2500 slots in just 10KB. Or just 
implement a hack to play nothing played in the last 24 hours. ;-)

2. If you show, say, two additional tracks after the currently 
playing track, I wanted to make sure that "aren't from the same 
player" doesn't refer to the track just played, but refers instead to 
the player of the last track queued ahead in the playlist.

3. If the track selected is already not from the player of the last 
track in the playlist, what does "have a short queue time" mean? From 
experience it doesn't mean the same disk in the same player already 
queued ahead of the current track. For example if p1d1t1 is playing, 
p2d1t1, p1d100t1, and p2d100t1 are queued, I'm curious how "short 
queue time" is evaluated.

Jeff

At 9:13 AM +0300 9/29/00, Michael Holopainen wrote:
>I'm not Colby, but here is how I understood it :
>
>1. random play = picks items from LIBRARY and creates RANDOM playlist on
>the fly
>2. yes
>3. alternate players so there is no silence while CDP-CX???
>unload/search/load disks
>
>P.S. I haven't yet found time to try the newest CDJ version, but I look
>frward doing so over the weekend.
>
>Jeff Schaffer wrote:
>>
>>  [I sent this in reply to a note sent by Colby and omitted the distlist.]
>>
>>  Colby,
>>
>>  On the priorities, some comments, questions:
>>
>>  1. aren't already in the playlist (items can fall off the list)
>>  2. aren't from the same player (as the last track in the playlist?)
>>  3. have a short queue time (what's the definition of this?)
>
>
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