Simple Shuffle Improvement

[greywind]

At the moment we have shuffle which is said to not remember anything and we have the randomize playlist feature.

Now what I want is something in between. I just want to configure that shuffle should remember the last x songs and not play them.

The thing is, I don't want to ran through all my 6000 songs before one is repeated, but like many others I start getting anoyed because winamp only plays the same 100 songs in shuffle mode.

So it would be great if we can make shuffle to remember and let the user configure how many songs should be remembered. A song that is in that remembering queue should not be played until it gets kicked out again.

I think this would be a fairly simple enhancement and it would make the winamp listening experience so much better.

Thanks
Mike

[DrO]

you can work around to do that already by adding the current playlist to the jump to file queue and then randomise it (if i get what you want correctly)

-daz

[greywind]

Yes but that is not the same. It randomizes it once and then ALL my songs will play once before they repeat. That is not what I meant.

All I want is to improve shuffle. I have no problem that songs get repeated, but at the moment shuffle does only ever select a couple of songs. I think the random number generator that winamp uses is not very random at all. Its like in the range from 1 - 10 it would only every come to 2, 5 and 8. You know what I mean? the others are NEVER played.

So what I would propose is to take the last x songs out of the equotation. So if I remove 2,5,8 from the range of 1-10, the random number has to select a different one.

[boostdemon]

Im with you on this Mike... i've been trying to figure out a way to build a plugin for this EXACT thing. I too have a problem here at work where i've got 500 songs on shuffle, 30 are played regularly (some 10+ times in a week) where as about 100 arent ever touched. (stats from the medialibrary list of 'times played')

I've come up with about 5 different ways it could be done in theory, also looked at reversing the IMMS plugin, but that seems way beyond how simple this could be. Unfortunately i have zero experience in writing plugins for winamp so i have no idea where to start.

But, im devoted to fixing this little quirk

-Dana