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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Robert S on January 31, 2005, 03:27:40 am
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I'm planing to use MC11 on a party and I'm setting up a playlist that has dancable-music in different genres. I once got an advice from a DJ that to keep as many people dancing as possible, it's good to play 3 songs from the same genre in a row, and then have 3 songs from another genre, and so on. So that's how I build my playlist this time.
It would be nice for my guests to be able to search through my library and put songs on a "wish list". The wish list would then pick 3 songs every now and then and play those instead of playing 3 genre songs from my my party-playlist.
So my question is; is this possible without creating a plugin? If not - I'd better start coding...
/Robert
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I think you should be able to do it by creating 1 playlist/smartlist of all the songs you want to play, plus one empty list for people to put their requests. Then you make a final smartlist which uses both lists as its source for files, and include a rule to limit each genre to 3 songs in a row. The MC help file has a table of all the smartlist search parameters available, with a good description of how they work and examples.
One feature of MC which I'm sure would aid you in this, but which I don't know much about, is the 'last played' or 'number of times played' field (can't remember exactly what it's called now, and don't have MC on this machine). As far as I understand it, you could use that field to create a rule whereby songs that guests have chosen and have already been played would not be repeated.
Hope that helped - it's vague, I know, but hey - at least you got a reply!
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