Hi Alex, On 02.02.05, Alexander Wirt wrote:

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I've just released PyTone 2.2.0, which can be found at the usual place:

http://www.luga.de/pytone/download/PyTone-2.2.0.tar.gz

There were no further changes compared to 2.2.0pre2.

Uploading via ftp pytone_2.2.0-1.dsc: done. Uploading via ftp pytone_2.2.0.orig.tar.gz: done. Uploading via ftp pytone_2.2.0-1.diff.gz: done. Uploading via ftp pytone_2.2.0-1_i386.deb: done. Uploading via ftp pytone_2.2.0-1_i386.changes: done. Successfully uploaded packages.

It hit incoming this morning and should be available via apt-get in a few hours for all sid users ;)

Cool, that was quick! So here my call to everybody on the list: please test this version thoroughly, so we can identify any serious bugs before this version enters Debian testing. Hey, I'm still optimistic that the Sarge freeze will happen soon... Thanks for your packaging work, Jörg

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

Hmm, I'll have a look into the random song selection code. However, on first sight, it's not clear to me how a pattern as described by you could result from it. Have you rated one of the artists? Jörg

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

On 02.02.05, Alexander Wirt wrote: [ snip ]

For the future I have one feature request to get pytone the best mp3 client I ever used.

Hey, there seems to be a pattern: Everytime somebody is requesting a new feature it's just because PyTone then will be the best MP3 player on the world. ;-) Anyway...

Support for mp3 streams, opening a stream directly or with a .m3u file containing the adress of the stream would be really great.

... you're not the first to request support for MP3/Ogg Vorbis streams. In fact, I tried to add support for this some time ago, but gave up rather quickly due to not finding a proper way to pass the encoded stream to the MAD decoder library. Since then, I have some new ideas but didn't try this out yet.

Thanks again for your great work

You're welcome. Jörg