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[gottwavo]

I am using smart lists to listen to music when I do not want to listen to a specific CD or artist. I have one smartlist called "any CD" or another one "new CD". When I use this one and the CD is finshed playing, I always need to refresh the smart list to get new music.

It would be nice if each smartlist had a feature "refresh, when finished playing". By this I could select it once and than listen to new CDs as long as I want without interaction.

Already availabe an I did not dind it? Possible? Makes sense?

Volker

[JimH]

Try the Radio option (under playback).  It can use what's currently playing as the "seed".

[gottwavo]

Can you be a little more specific? Where exactly can I set this?
- option --> playback --> and then ?

[gottwavo]

I found how to set this. But is does not do what I had in mind. It's a nice feature though I had not used so far.

So may be it's worthwhile adding the feature.

[AoXoMoXoA]

I think what he wants (and I would also like) is a feature to play ALBUMS (and entire CD) then to auto-process the Smartlist when playback completes and re-feed Playing Now.
The Radio function could work for this somewhat IF it could handle ALBUMS.


Some of us play full albums, I guess it comes from being an album-rock fan, but I cannot imagine playing some tracks out-of-context of the album and rarely (if ever) play songs rather than an entire album/cd

[gottwavo]

... a feature to play ALBUMS (and entire CD) then to auto-process the Smartlist when playback completes and re-feed Playing Now.

Yes, exactly described. My English is not as good as yours ...

[hit_ny]

Some of us play full albums, I guess it comes from being an album-rock fan, but I cannot imagine playing some tracks out-of-context of the album and rarely (if ever) play songs rather than an entire album/cd

Nothing of the sort, if you have good albums, think this is a very natural thing to do. It's one of the main reasons to rate and compute an album score, so that's all it takes is look for & genre and let er rip 

Going back to the OP's request,  its an interesting one.

A self-updating playing now is how one could describe it.

Radio is tracks only, would it be interesting if you could feed it a smartlist to do the same ?

There would then be no need to,  locate the smartlist, refresh it,  add the album to playing now.

But the workaround isnt too dificult (or is it)

- Make two panes, in the second pane, run your smartlist, so fire it off (F5) and get your random album.
- Ctrl+A and then enter to add it to PN, making sure in the options its set to add to PN rather than replace.
- Then Ctrl+Tab to switch between tabs when needed.

once you get the hang of it
ctrl+tab
then F5
ctrl+a
enter
followed by another ctrl+tab

hmmm.... ?

[marko]

Surely it would be easier to set the smartlist to return more than one album, with the album tracks grouped together in order and the albums themselves in a random order?

[AoXoMoXoA]

Surely it would be easier to set the smartlist to return more than one album, with the album tracks grouped together in order and the albums themselves in a random order?

    D'oH!

[hit_ny]

Surely it would be easier to set the smartlist to return more than one album, with the album tracks grouped together in order and the albums themselves in a random order?

Certainly, but the only surprise element is the first album in the list ?

you already know what the next album and indeed the next few (to be played) will be

Suspect thats part of the appeal of radio albeit on a tracks basis.

[AoXoMoXoA]

thanks hit_ny,   
I was so stunned by the simplicity of Marko's response I was left speechless.
imagine, me speechless   

[gottwavo]

All the above work arounds are OK. You also could just create a smart play list to select - let's say - 20 Albums, more than one could listen to in day, sort by Album and track and play them ...

But what do you do for Album 21?

And I don't think this feature is too difficult to program. So programmers: give it a try and put it on your to do list.