party shuffle
Description
Changelog:
+New Features to control the partyshuffle:
+Clear and generate menu options for easy making of your
playlist
+Random ratings, to randomize your songs ratings( yes i’m
lazy :) )
+Controls pane to change preferences on-the-fly
Hope you will like it :)
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Fixes:
+Fixed auto-fill(Now it will continue to play after a new set of
songs is fetched)
+Only one Partyshuffle list is allowed(Let me know if you
don’t like this feature)
+ New voice in preferences menu to auto-fill playlist when you have
heard the last song
in the playlist
+ New voice in preferences menu to fill playlist with less rated
songs if there aren’t
enough with the choosen rating.
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With this addon you can create a playlist with random songs.
Check preferences to choose genre and rating.
Soon there will be a better version, i hope you ll like it :)
Stay tuned
Release Notes
Updated for 1.1.1
fixes:
+autorefill should work now
+generate and clear are working now
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© 2005-2009 Pioneers of the Inevitable
http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/03/18/birdwatching/
stevel : “This one is also one I’d love to have. I will personally buy a 6-pack out of my own pocket for anyone who implements this.”
What exactly mean “6-pack out” ?
I think it’s beer…
Hey this is awesome!!
Soooo happy to see this. =)
Woo hoo! (Now I guess I have to get down to rating and fixing genres... If only someone were working on a track editor.)
I love this feature! Thanks…however, how does it work? I used the menu item to create a PartyShuffle playlist with 10 items; once those items play, there’s no autofill; I selected the menu item again and got a second playlist with a new set of 10 songs. I’m on OSX Intel, with Songbird 0.5.
AutoFill feature should refill your partyshuffle playlist
after you have heard all the songs.
It will refill on the last song, if not tell me because the only bug i found about auto-refill is that it doesn’t play songs after refill.
Great!! :)
I see you add the partyshuffle by going to file party shuffle. You can also add playlists by right clicking in the left hand pane. Could you add party shuffle to that drop down list?
Do you want a button to make a partyshuffle from the controls pane?
For those of us that are slow like me, go to File -> Party Shuffle to access the party shuffle menu.
It would be really nice if it either a) auto-generated a default playlist or b) created a party shuffle button in the left pane. This would prevent the user from wandering around trying to find how to play/generate the party shuffle :). I would be more for b) because then you could right click it and gain access to (re)generate, clear, show controls, etc.
Anyway, thanks for creating this great add-on!
I really liked this feature for Songbird 0.6.0. Any plans of developing this for Songbird 0.7.0?
yeah come on man i love this addon when do we get the pleasure of using it in 0.7.?
PLS PLS PLS update this addon for newest songbird PLS PLS PLS!
Any news on this add-on? I'd really like to use it...
Hi,
the new release will be out soon.
Cheers
Diego
I can create playlists by genre & rating with intelligent playlists, too.Could you tell something about the differences between intelligent playlists and your add-on?
mmm eheheh, this addon was made time ago when
intelligent playlists wasn't working.
There is no big difference at all now, maybe the autorefill thing.
I'm afraid this doesn't add-on doesn't seem to work with Songbird version 1. The playlist can be created fine but the list doesn't auto-refill, nor can you regenerate the list. You always have to create a new playlist.
I'd really love this feature to work properly as I still feel this one thing that iTunes still has over Songbird.
Is this still being updated? Potentially I'd like to reference it, and add songs to it from Songbird Remote
Thanks, I'm really excited about finally using this add-on. A few thoughts:
• Is there a way to give it a range of ratings instead of one number? For example, I like to play things that are rated 3 stars or higher.
• I like the pane for controls, but why do I have to keep returning to the menu to Generate, or apply my settings? Why not have a button to do this right in the pane?
• What I would *really* like is to be able to have party shuffle pull from a specific PLAYLIST (not just genre), since I have smart playlists set-up to match my listening needs.
• I don't understand what "fill with less rated songs" does, and does "randomize rating" actually change my track ratings, or does it pull tracks with random ratings? Is there any documentation I could look at?
PS: Thanks to stove_pipe or I never would have figured out how to access this at all! I agree with his/her suggestions as well.
@rubyji
Thanks to you to use my extension, now answers:
1)Fill with less rated songs is used to generate a partyshuffle list that will contain songs with a lower rating than the one you choose if there aren't enough to supply your request
ex: You want 20 songs with rating 3, but you have only 10 with this rating so if Fill with less rated songs is selected then songs with rating 2,1,0 will be added to the playlist.
2)Right, the real thing is that i don't know XUL (a markup language used in songbird used to code the main graphical interface) so much. I just look at how a language is done and i'm in a sort of ready-to-code-state also if i don't know all about it, so the answer is MAYBE i will add that button as i got spare time.
3)Yes, this is intresting.
Everytime songbird gets updated i ask myself if this partyshuffle addon is useless or not because smart playlist are working now. What can i say is that probably is easy enough to code this feature you are requesting, so as i said in answer 2 expect something a day or so
4)About fill with less rated songs read answer 1.
Randomize ratings will give a random rating (0-5) to all your songs, so be carefull when using this feature because i have coded it for development purpose only.
So i hope my answers will clear your doubts, expect some updates a day or so.
Cheers
Diego
@inf3rn0,
this is much more useful than Smart Playlists! Please keep updating it :-)
What I like about Party Shuffle in iTunes (the only iTunes feature I like at all!) is the ability to listen on shuffle but also to have some control over what's coming up next, to add or remove songs, etc. With your extension, the fact that it only refills at the end makes this harder.You'll notice that iTunes keeps track of how many songs are in the queue and tops it up if necessary. If you could implement that I'd be very happy indeed.
Chris
Uselessness and Auto Refill:
I Use the add on "create similar Playlist" quite often, and like it much (uses data from last.fm)
But that's not what I understand under a party shuffle.
So here some thoughts about party shuffle:
Autorefill: Can this be done in a way, that everytime a song is deleted from the list a new one is picked up?
so that the list alway contains the wanted number of songs.
that way people can just remove songs they dont like and together with:
Autodelete the Party can go on forever. Autodelete should delete a song once it was played.
And like others before: differnet sources. like only songs from a playlist.
and more options: songs may be repeated, the time when they can be repeated.
likelyhood of how close songs from same interpret appear in the list together (close/likely: only a few songs are played from other artist, until the same artist is played again - far/unlikely: a lot of songs have to be played until a song from the same artist apears again in the list)
the same for Genre and Album
oh, and when you click generate it would be cool when the currently playing song was not interrupted/deleted, only all the others should be re-generated. It really can mess up the mood killing a song in the middle!!!
Or make this a separate option or a sub-option of the autodelete?
Probably a bit of work, But with this it would be THE ULTIMATE Partyshuffle!!!