Comments on: randomplay

By: ben.wing

ben.wing — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:01:01 +0000

I’ve been doing some hacking to “improve” the console display to my preferences. I can post my updates to you somewhere if you’re interested.

By: slystone

slystone — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:48:09 +0000

Am I the only one with high cpu usage? (70%-90%, AMD Barton 2500)

By: adam

adam — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:30:08 +0000

Slystone: you can configure the script to play any format you want by altering the config file. Just look at the sample randomplayrc for examples.

By: slystone

slystone — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:17:05 +0000

great script :) what about adding more file formats? ex: FLAC, APE, WV.

xmms plays them very well..

By: randomplay 0.60 released | Substantially Similar

randomplay 0.60 released | Substantially Similar — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:09:01 +0000

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By: Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Where is the rc file documented?

By: Adam Rosi-Kessel

Adam Rosi-Kessel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The rc file is not separately documented, but it is described in the manpage under DESCRIPTION. It says:

All options can also be kept in ~/.randomplayrc, with one option
per line, option name followed by a space followed by the option value. Command line settings will o
verride settings specified in ~/.randomplayrc; later settings will override earlier settings.

There is also a small sample randomplayrc file included in the package. I could, perhaps, set out a separate section in the manpage or README with a more detailed description of randomplayrc.

By: Bruno Engelmann

Bruno Engelmann — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, this is just what I’ve been looking for. Any chance of an option to play all songs from a random album in order of track numbers?

By: Adam Rosi-Kessel

Adam Rosi-Kessel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Bruno: that’s definitely a great idea. I’ll try to implement it in the next month or two. One question would be how the track memory would work in that case–if a track from an album had already been played in the last x days, would it still play the album? Would it skip that track? Etc.. It might be that the “random album order” feature would just be orthogonal to the “random memory” feature.

By: sylvan aka sdb

sylvan aka sdb — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great stuff! Just discovered ‘randomplay’.

Feature idea, parse ‘.m3u’ style playlists. That might also suffice as a first-pass on the stored index idea as well. For example, I use a little shell script which generates ‘allsubs.m3u’ in every parent (not leaf) directory. If I could pass that playlist to randomplay, it would not need to traverse the dir structure.