Yet Another Shuffle for Winamp

[pbelkner]

Yet Another Shuffle (YAS) is a shuffle replacement plugin for Winamp.

• Home: http://gen-yas.sourceforge.net/
• Project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gen-yas/
• Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gen-yas/files/

YAS aims to shuffle through almost all tracks from a playlist (as opposed to just shuffling through a subset of the playlist). In order to achieve this, YAS

• maintains a pool of tracks not played so far from a playlist,
• draws the next track to play from that pool (hence effectively avoids duplicates), and
• persistently associates such a pool to a playlist.

YAS identifies a playlist by a hash code. A playlist's hash code is computed from

• a configurable number of tracks (file names) taken from that playlist, and
• the length of the playlist.

A pool of tracks not played so far from a playlist is made persistent between activations of that particular playlist by storing it in a file with a name representing the playlist's hash code. Those files are stored in directory "%APPDATA%\Winamp\Plugins\gen_yas".

For further details refer to http://gen-yas.sourceforge.net/.

NOTE: YAS is incompatible with JTFE (Jump to File Extra). In order to use YAS, JTFE has to be deactivated.

[DrO]

well that rules me out trying it if it's jtfe incompatible.

[pbelkner]

Originally Posted by DrO

well that rules me out trying it if it's jtfe incompatible.

I don't think so. It's just what I can do while waiting until ...

Originally Posted by DrO

so it'll be a week or two before i can provide something that doesn't cause me more work to do (as i'm juggling a load of other projects at the same time which isn't ideal).

[DrO]

k, my fault then though i'm running behind on things so it's going to be longer than i said (my contracted work has to be done over the niceties stuff sadly + it'd slipped my mind in all honesty with everything else going on in trying to get Winamp and SHOUTcast releases finished).

[pbelkner]

Originally Posted by DrO

k, my fault then though i'm running behind on things so it's going to be longer than i said (my contracted work has to be done over the niceties stuff sadly + it'd slipped my mind in all honesty with everything else going on in trying to get Winamp and SHOUTcast releases finished).

No problem at all.

Unfortunately currently I don't have any idea how to make this effort compatible with JTFE. If you have some idea please let me know.

[pbelkner]

• Fixed a serious bug letting WA crash under certain circumstances.
• Added a function for cleaning up garbage.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gen-yas/files/

[pbelkner]

• Added two flavors of the Mersenne Twister, MT19937AR (2002) and MEMT19937-II (2013).
• Made MEMT19937-II the default random algorithm.
• Various minor fixes.

Home: http://gen-yas.sourceforge.net/
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gen-yas/files/


BTW, regarding latest WA news: Many thanks to anybody who has contributed to make WA one out of the greatest software music (and video) players!

[IAreKyleW00t]

Looking forward to this once it's Compatible with JTFE (since I use that a lot)

[pbelkner]

Originally Posted by IAreKyleW00t

Looking forward to this once it's Compatible with JTFE (since I use that a lot)

JTFE and YAS serve completely different use cases:

• JTFE is for people interacting with WA.
• YAS is for people don't interacting with WA, for people using WA just as a radio replacement playing music in the background.

Several people have the impression that WA is shuffling just a subset of a playlist always repeating the same songs (cf. e.g. here, here, here, and here). Maybe I'm a bit paranoid (possibly that's for sure), but I have the same impression.

On the other hand it is well known that constructing a good (pseudo) random number generator is not an easy task. That's why I decided to create this plugin using some leading edge approaches for random number creation (cf. Mersenne Twister).

Of course, I would like to have YAS compatible with JTFE. There's a respective question to DrO pending. But I suspect

1. it is impossible to make YAS compatible with JTFE anyway (because of concurrent sub-classing), and
2. DrO will not find the time to answer the question during the remaining four weeks until this forum is shut down.