Hi,
On 02.02.05, Alexander Wirt wrote: [ snip ]
Unfortunatly I have some Bug for you. I haven't the time to look into the code yet and somebody told me the bug was also in the last pytone version. We discovered some problem in the random code, I have 70 Gb of mp3s on my harddisk, everything works fine but "Random song list" doesn't really work. I get several songs of one band in a row (of 400 possible). So there is no real shuffle available
I'm sorry that my bug report is so vague, but I currently don't have more informations available.
I had some private email exchange about this with Alex, but just for the others I want to bring this discussion back to the list.
The point is that there is a confusion about the fact what the random playlist mode means. Alex thought that this means that the contents of the playlist are played in random order (as is done in the shuffle mode of other players). To achieve something like this with PyTone, you have to change to the playlist window and press "r" to shuffle the playlist contents until you like the particular order. The general idea behind that is that the playlist order always reflects the order in which the songs will be played.
On the other hand, the random playlist mode only applied when all songs in the playlist have been played. Then, if this mode has been set to random, a randomly chosen song from the song database will be appended to the playlist and played.
Jörg