Post by: Gatobrit on June 18, 2002, 09:06:13 am
What happens is that the playlist contents appear to be added to Playing Now and the the whole of Playing Now is shuffled thereby losing my carefully arranged song order I wanted to hear at the beginning of Playing Now.
So. I don't think MJ should shuffle Playing Now unless I right click on it and select Reshuffle. If I add something to Playing Now and shuffle is on then shuffle the songs being added and then add them on the end (or as next to play or whatever I choose) of Playing Now.
Also, clicking on shuffle on / off in the playing window shouldn't (IMHO) generate a reshuffle directly. It should direct what happens to the next bunch of songs added to Playing Now.
Basically, the shuffle feature needs to be give a 'lude of some kind.
I realize that this is probably a MJ 9.0 request but I thought I'd float the problem and see what others think.
Post by: Harry The Hipster on June 18, 2002, 09:37:58 am
Fate of civilization as we know it doesn't rise and fall on this issue, but a good one to queue up for 9x.
HTH
Post by: Matt on June 18, 2002, 09:44:26 am
Also, clicking on shuffle on / off in the playing window shouldn't (IMHO) generate a reshuffle directly. It should direct what happens to the next bunch of songs added to Playing Now.
Can't agree with this though, because MJ's "ordered shuffle" really throws people for a loop unless turning shuffle on actually does something.
Anyway, we'll hammer through this for the next version....
Thanks guys.
-Matt
Post by: Gatobrit on June 18, 2002, 09:48:27 am
Anyway, I'm going to shuffle off for a cup of tea...
Post by: claudio on June 18, 2002, 10:12:04 am
why don't you make a smartlist with the ~n ? So if you want to select 100 random from your "100 Rocker" playlist you create "Random 100" with ~n=100 and add the playlistid== keyword to point to your original 100.
Each time you click on this Random playlist it picks 100 random song that you can then add to Playing Now
Claudio
Post by: Gatobrit on June 18, 2002, 10:53:01 am
The problem is that if the 100 songs are added to the existing Playing Now, the whole Playing Now is shuffled including what was in the there before I added the 100 songs. When I do this I get to hear all the songs in the Playing Now that I've already heard.
Post by: claudio on June 18, 2002, 11:02:12 am
Anyway I understand what you are asking for... I guess it's not a problem for me. The only thing that I find annoying with shuffle, is that you have to start playing to re-shuffle with ^R (and that's why I use ~n most of the time)
Claudio
Post by: Gatobrit on June 18, 2002, 11:08:21 am
Post by: claudio on June 18, 2002, 11:31:22 am
Claudio
Post by: Matt on June 18, 2002, 11:44:55 am
Post by: Gatobrit on June 18, 2002, 11:45:57 am
Post by: Callithumpian on June 18, 2002, 05:16:23 pm
There should be a way to add (and simultaneously shuffle) a selection of tracks to "Playing Now" without reshuffling the order of "Playing Now".
MJ's current attitude seems to indicate that the it does not condsider that the user has thought about the order of "Playing Now".
A critical point here, I believe, is that "Playing Now" is quite often carefully and deliberately ordered - often with considerable investment of time.
Hence that order should never be tampered with except by an explicit user directive.
I often have a album playing (in it correct order), but while browsing my library I see some tracks that I think, "And after this album play I'd like to play those, randomly."
As it stands there is no simple way to do that.
To achieve that I have to add them to "Temp" playlist, go to that playlist, shuffle it, then "Add to PLaying Now"
Post by: kakugan on June 21, 2002, 10:40:35 am
Mark