GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144124
"full album" shuffling mode (modify/add shuffle behaviour)
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:32:14 UTC
The idea would be to get multiple shuffle modes, particularly a "full-album" one that would work like that: - select a random album, play it completely from first track to last one (normal order) - select another random album, play it completely... This feature would -to me- add a lot of value to any player (although rhythmbox is already a very very nice software) To do it, one could imagine a "schuffle mode" radio button with the following choices: - play random album completely in normal track order, jump to other random album - play random album completely in random track order, jump to other random album - one which would have the same behaviour as the current "schuffle" option - ... ? Or, another way (maybe better?): - current "schuffle" checkbox (selects random tracks in the whole library) - a "play full albums" checkbox available when "schuffle" is checked, which would play the full album containing the randomly-chosen track before randomly choosing another track of the library - a "schuffle each album's tracks" checkbox available when the "play full albums" one is checked, to play full albums but in random track order But maybe you see a better way? :) This would need the introduction of a "next album" button to skip to the next album if the listener gets bored of the currently-playing one before its end while in "play full albums" mode; while still providing him the ability to skip just to next track via the "next track" button. Thanks to consider this idea and (more generally) for the time you dedicate to our musical entertainment!
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I'd like to se this, adding to CC list
The patch on bug 163196 makes all the play order show in the menu, which would be handy if someone wants to implement this. My suggestion on how to do it is: 1) have a property model which collates albums from the source's query model 2) pick a random album from the property model, and create a new query model from that 3) play the tracks from the query model in linear/shuffled order 4) go to 2
For UI implementation, we could either go with the way iTunes does it and have a preference for it, or change the Shuffle toolbar button into a toolbar dropdown with "Songs" and "Albums" underneath it -- the same goes for the menu item. Anyone know if this is HIG-legal?
The patch on bug 163196 does that for the menu. Doing it for the toolbar is awkward, since GtkUIManager doesn't seem to like GtkMenuToolButtons much.
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Is anyone working on this? And no, I'm not saying I can do it, at least right now, though I'll certainly take a look at the patches. It's just quite an important feature for me.
(In reply to comment #11) > Is anyone working on this? And no, I'm not saying I can do it, at least right > now, though I'll certainly take a look at the patches. It's just quite an > important feature for me. I don't think anybody is working on this. There aren't really any patches to do this (except for exposing different algorithms to the UI, which doesn't actually do the random within album shuffling, that's what comment #6 is about).
I was about to submit a new feature request for this but I see that it has already been suggested. For what it's worth, I'd love to see an album shuffle mode in Rhythmbox as well.
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this is pretty much the missing feature that keeps me using amarok on gnome.
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Ok, sorry for the duplicate. Is anybody working on this? It seems there was some patches at some point, but it's a long time ago, so I'm not really sure… Cheers,
No one is working on this. I think there may be some plugins with similar functionality, though, but I can't find any references off hand.
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