boosh

5 stars for just the name alone! lol.
Great job! Thanks!

chuckrudolph

Would it be possible to add a setting to ignore any files with specific genres, e.g. audiobooks

Seb

I'm french, I don't view your addon when I installed...

detection

The name is perfect!

McBainUK

Is it possible to delete a single track that you don't want in the shuffle list?

zbu

I gave 4 stars, because for me a "delete on disk" or "show in explorer" are missing.

zbu

The showfile was what I was refering to. With "delete on disk" I meant, sending the file to the trash bin. How it works now is fine (gave you full 5 now :) ) Thanks for listening to commenters.

vmos

Hi, I think this plugin is the thing I'm looking for but I can't get the icon to appear in the sidebar. am I being thick or is there another way ot start it?

(I'm using linux btw)

vmos

figured it out, if I disable the birdtune plugin it starts working. A bit random but there you go.
Now that I've got it working it turns out that partyruffle is exactly what I'm looking for. However I would also like to use birdtune now and again. any suggestions?

Seb

ok, I will test again

verso

Thanks for the fix, happy to say it works like a charm!

chuckrudolph

@chuckrudolph I wasn't planning to add such a feature. What I do to achieve this is create a smart playlist which out the unwanted genres. Then set this smart playlist as the Source of PartyRuffle.

Thanks; that works perfectly

5teve

Does this work with Songbird 1.4? I'm not seeing anything after installing it.

5teve

Actually it seems to come and go, for some reason. It appears, but when I start to use it it disappears from the left panel so if I change view I can't get back to it.

One feature request... would it be possible to make it possible to use the MediaFlow view above the track listing, please?

Otherwise, it works well, thanks for making it.

5teve

Good news about MediaFlow, I'm looking forward to that!!

I just tried to see if PartyRuffle would do a disappearing act so I could give you details from the error console, and I'm not having the problems today. I know the incompatibilities you mentioned with the Now Playing List add-on were around use of MediaFlow, but it's interesting that the only thing I have changed since I was having issues with PartyRuffle disappearing is that I've removed the Now Playing List add-on.

Anyway, all working today. Thanks for your help.

zbu

abu: the same thing happens after running "exorcise the ghosts". It disappears. Could it be due to a high memory use of either "exorcise the ghosts" and "mediaflow"?

zbu

on a sidenote: It keeps playing, just the PartyRuffle tab is not there anymore. ( a restart of Songbird is needed to get it back)

rlopez

you should collaborate with the guy who makes the "Now Playing" Addon. PartyRuffle and that combined would be awesome

zbu

Adding a lot of songs, or delete a lot also make the PartyRuffle tab disappear. Maybe because it keeps running, a check on whether it is present (after the start of a new song) could be a possibility.

zbu

It did the trick.

Do you have a roadmap for PartyRuffle, or at least do you have an idea when you will implement "play higher rated songs more often"? It would be nice to see that feature pop up in the future. Expanding on that feature, how do people see a "play less played songs more often"?

Hiromacu

@abu: Nice stuff! :)

feschli

Hi!
Thank You for this great pugin! I really missed this feature!!!
Uhm... I have PartyRuffle 0.1.4 (and songbird 1.4.3) but sometimes the tab disappears sometimes... I don't remember deleting or adding any songs since I have this Plugin.

@zbu: I would like a "play less played songs more often to" xD

Itzalive

Hi, Thanks very much for PartyRuffle!
Was the final factor making me switch to Songbird.

However once it was all installed and setup noticed that the 'Play higher rated songs more often' was disabled. :'(

After a bit of research on how iTunes calculates it I made some mods to the code. However I only cannot properly implement it as I have no idea how to rebuild the .xpt file(It works but it is permanently on). Peter

Modded sbPartyRuffleManager.js

mnicho

Just got PartyRuffle - awesome work. However, I almost always use Songbird in Minimode. When in minimode, PartyRuffle seems to forget to delete songs from the playlist; they just stay at the top. That's fine while you stay on the PartyRuffle playlist, but if you close Songbird + reopen it you hear the same songs every time 'cos they don't get removed. Clicking refresh obviously corrects that, but it would be nice if it happened automatically. Mark

dael99

sometimes it tends to disappear, what can I do?

screenchot: http://yfrog.com/jvpantallazohlp

201d

This add-on is the ultimate iTunes killer! The disappearing control panel is fixed and not only can I play higher rated songs more often... I also get to play least often played songs more often! TREMENDOUS! It would just ROCK if I could select both!

That's one thing I hate about shuffle modes, how if you play higher rated songs more often some songs would get left behind.

201d

I noticed when I select "play higher rated songs more often" the playlist contains more songs with low play counts than when I select "play least played songs more often", which brings up an odd mix of very often played songs and very obscure songs (usually resulting in 50% 5 stars and 50% 1 stars).

I wish I had a better idea as of how the "more often" system selects its songs.

Nards

I had to move my MP3's to another HD, Songbird re-added them and re-set their play counts.

I have selected "Select Least Played Songs More Often" and it has played Alan Rickman's spoken word piece 18 times while other files haven't been played once.

Nards

SongBird Crashes.

Version 1.4.3 Build 1438

I need to boot SongBird just after turning the PC on, before I load any other program and I have to let it take its time, or else it crashes. From then on, I can't re-start SongBird, until I re-boot the pc.

Nards

oh, previous comment, only seems to crash if I have Party Ruffle selected.

Nards

The Ruffle is good, any chance of it playing video files?

Nards

Just a thought, would be cool it Party Ruffle included optical drives.

zbu

@201d & Abu: This I noticed too, and this originates in the problem how songs are chosen. 5* songs as a whole are chosen more, but when you for example have ten 5* songs, and one 1* you'll see the one 1* as per song is coming up more. In a library where the amount of 5*, 4*, ..., 0* songs are equally balanced, you'll see that a random 5* WILL pop up more often.

This can easily be fixed if PartyRuffle multiplies the chances of 5* songs coming up by the amount of 5* songs, the same with 4* songs possibility of coming up by their amount and so one.
Still love party ruffle ;)

figa

I gave 0.2.1 a try with 1.7 on Linux, and it seems to work, except that PartyRuffle overwrites the Library line in the left-hand pane. There's no way to view the entire library. Services and Playlists still work.

I created a smart playlist with the entire library as a workaround.

While I'm here, there are two things I'd like to see in future versions:

1. It would be nice to have the row with the song that's currently playing highlighted.

2. Sometimes PartyRuffle selects songs that are already playing or have just recently been played. I've attempted to exclude songs in the PartyRuffle playlist using a smart playlist, but I still get dupes. The shuffle algorithm seems to favor certain tracks and the smart playlist doesn't seem to have an accurate view of what's in the PartyRuffle playlist.

Thanks for your hard work. PartyRuffle gets me through the day.

figa

I'm trying it out right now. The current track is highlighted, the playlist is updated correctly, and I'm not encountering any issues.

I realized that the library issue was due to 1.7.2 and upgrading to 1.7.3 restored the library.

Thanks for the updates.

figa

I'm still seeing duplicates in the playlist. Just now a track was selected twice in a row. This is 3.0 on Linux.

freaktechnik

A very cool addon. So good Addons should have a german translation. If you need one, I can do it.

freaktechnik

Now when I select Library as Source, it plays Videos too. It will be nice if I can choose Music. I've made an intelligent playlist now, with all my music, but that can't be it.

freaktechnik

Thx for the update.
I just registered to translate PartyRuffle!

LeMirque

Hi abu, thanks for the update, but there seems to be a bug. When i updated PartyRuffle and restarted songbird, my library appeared blank. After de- and reactivating PR, the library was there, but now the PR options were missing.
Another restart of songbird made the library entries disappear again.

freaktechnik

@abu it doesn't matter. I'm happy, that PartyRuffle is now german & that you linked to my homepage... thanks.

LeMirque

Thanks for the reply.
Reinstalling PR doesn't change anything.
The Error Console first displayed the following error:

"[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [sbILibrary.getItemsByProperty]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/***PATH***/Profiles/***PROFILE***/extensions/partyruffle@songbirdnest.com/components/sbPartyRuffleManager.js :: anonymous :: line 164" data: no]
Quelldatei: file:///C:/***PATH***/Songbird2/Profiles/***PROFILE***/extensions/partyruffle@songbirdnest.com/components/sbPartyRuffleManager.js
Zeile: 167

(I removed the names of my paths and profiles there)

After a restart of SB, as described above, the library is populated again, but the PR options are missing. Error Console doesn't display anything that explicitly mentions PartyRuffle...

LeMirque

Oh, and I am using SB 1.8.0

deOmega

Hi abu,
I just updated to this latest version and my library started showing up blank.... After disabling Party Shuffle...the problem went away.

Thanks for your work.

LeMirque

Hey abu and deOmega. I did some testing and it seems there is a conflict between shoutcast and PartyRuffle. I am not entirely sure though.
It seems to only take effect when the language is set to german.
Can you validate this, deOmega? Do you have shoutcast installed and your language set to german?

LeMirque

abu, one question on the functionality is left though: the "shuffling" tab in the options menu is not really clear to me. does it take any effect at all if the drop-down menu on the bottom left is set to "play all songs equally often", or what do i have to do to make it work? Shouldn't there be an entry like "play songs according to shuffling-settings" or something like this?

Anyway: great add-on, thanks a lot!!

freaktechnik

I use german too (why? ;-) ) and have the same error. With shoutcast installed. I hope the error isn't generated by my translation.

freaktechnik

With the gonzo feather the infotext to the biased groups isn't readable, its white on white ground.

detrimidexta

I take some time testing. Disabled all addons. Then I try to enable it one by one. PartyRuffle only — works perfect. Ruffle+ShoutCast=clean library bug. Ruffle+IceCast=the same bug. With any other addons PartyRuffle is working good. So, it is conflicting with the internet radio addons
I'm using the Russian translation.
Sorry for my English :(

deOmega

@abu: Sorry about getting back this late.
@LeMirque: Mine is set to English.
However, I just did the update and it is now working fine.

LeMirque

Thanks for the update!

Hiromacu

@abu: Thanks to update! Works well! ^_^

DAve.Shillito

This is probably the most used plugin I have - thanks for the great work.

One suggestion that just occurred to me...
Is it possible to add a "go to track in database" option to the now playing list?

I only suggest this since PartyRuffle just played a track and I thought "oh I'd like to hear the rest of that album" - and had to manually find the track in the database.

But TBH that's the only 'annoyance' I've found in months of use - so... shucks... I have to find a file on my own! ;o)

Once again thanks for a great plugin!

LeMirque

There seems to be a bug/incompatibility with 1.91. blessed Build: when i right click in a playlist, the default menu entries (play, edit metadate, remove etc.) are not there, just the (three) entries related to PartyRuffle.

I love PartyRuffle and *really* want it to work again without causing this issue. Great addon!

LeMirque

Great, thank you!

figa

I tried out the new Play Now feature, and I noticed that when playing an album based on the selected track, the album tracks are added in an arbitrary order. Would it be possible to add the tracks in track number order?

I also noticed that the repeat track button is disabled. It used to be possible to repeat a track in PartyRuffle. Repeat track is enabled in the library view. I realize that it wouldn't make sense to repeat the playlist.

Thanks for your work on the plugin. It's the one piece of software I enjoy using every day!

s_t_e_v_e_

Love this add-on... it's the main way I listen to my music.

I've found two issues though:

1. If PartyRuffle is the selected playlist when exiting Songbird, then when Songbird is started again, the title of PartyRuffle has been lost. I've reproduced this a couple of times and have only been able to fix it by reinstalling PartyRuffle.
2. I'm using PartyRuffle with MediaFlow, but MediaFlow is managing to keep-up with the currently playing track after the point when previously played tracks start to fall off the start of the playlist (until that point it stays in sync perfectly). I have installed the FocusTrack add-on to see if that helps, but the problem still happens. It's displaying empty space where the current album cover should be, and all the previously played, currently playing, and yet to be played album covers are lined-up to the right of that.

Otherwise a great add-on. Thanks.

DAve.Shillito

Cheers for the Find Track option.

It works really well :o)

klint

Last new year's night, a PartyRuffle saved my life ;)
Thanks abu, and all the best for 2011 to all readers

alumni

you could at least provide a proper description. i never used itunes (and never will) so i don't know what party shuffle is...

zbu

Lately, I'd like to see thickboxes introduced, as in iTunes. It makes it easy to select more than one playlist, and/or exclude some songs. It can be done by putting all thicked in an on-the-fly playlist from which partyruffle picks songs.

Benjaway

Hi all new to songbird awesome btw as is partyruffle... it was my first addon and my favorite so far. But what I would really like to know is: what is the addon that makes the layered album covers at the top of ur screen shot for this add-on??????

argonauta

This is the Media Flow addon.

yoav

Thanks for the addon - I stopped using songbird about two years ago because there was no way to control the playlist. I still don't understand why this addon isn't an integral part of Songbird but whatever. I'm just glad I can use Songbird again!

sc0ttkclark

More of an annoyance than a bug, but I'd like to see an option to further randomize tracks so that you don't get the same artist 2+ times in a row or within X songs of each other. Of course, it would only work if you actually had enough songs to fill things in enough so it had a choice, but in my case I have a ton of songs but I see this happening quite often (I think it actually happened with the iTunes DJ too lol).

BTW, I've got my PartyRuffle set for 25 history and 25 upcoming.