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Bug 524995 - audiobooks don't play in shuffle ala iTunes
audiobooks don't play in shuffle ala iTunes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 341140
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: Playback
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 1.0
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-29 17:02 UTC by Mike McWay
Modified: 2008-03-30 02:33 UTC
See Also:
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Description Mike McWay 2008-03-29 17:02:38 UTC 
many people have audio books, lectures, and comedy shows in their collections. Would be nice if we could uncheck files so they don't play during shuffle or regular play, effectively skipping those files.

selecting multiple files and clicking the checkbox would check/uncheck as appropriate. allowing lectures/books with multiple files to be activated and played one to the next without much trouble, then inactivated again after.

could be a better way of dealing with this use case...
Comment 1 Andrew Conkling 2008-03-29 18:42:25 UTC 
Bug #341140 has a potential solution: don't even add the files to the library.

I think that tagging would be a good solution too (then you could only shuffle tracks that don't match the "Podcast" tag).

Come to think of it, maybe Smart Playlists could do this (based on the File Location criteria)? Which do you think would be best?
Comment 2 Gabriel Burt 2008-03-29 19:10:12 UTC 
I filed bug #341140 yesterday, the idea being to have an Audiobook Library source.  Perhaps it should be called the Spoken Word Library or something more generic. :)
Comment 3 Mike McWay 2008-03-29 19:23:32 UTC 
yeah, suppose thats the best way to do it.
Comment 4 Gabriel Burt 2008-03-30 02:33:22 UTC 
Going ahead and closing this as a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 341140 ***