jukebox mode = smart shuffle and track rating/last played

[S Pittaway]

Hi,

Firstly i have to say that i am wank at explaing/discribing sutff so this post probably sounds like giberish, i alsoi canyt speal at all... so applologies for that to



I have been concentrating on getting the music side of my xlobby install sorted out, now i only have one big thing left to do...


I want a nice jukebox mode, which does the following-

1) build up a random playlist of all tracks

2) have the option of rating individual tracks as i lsiten to them and then factoring the rating into the shuffle - favourate tracks first.

3) whenever a track is played i want to add/update a lastplayed tag, this can then also be factored into the playback (least played first) - i have 8/9000 tracks yet shuffle as an uncanny nack of playing the same tracks for me!


Is anyone doing anything like this?


I always find it easiest to write a plugin whenever i want to do something in xlobby (i probly dont know the easy ways of doing them), but i think i will need get c# out again to do the following-

i need to know when the current song changes so i can set the last played track?

jump to currently playing album in the musc database, then add a lastplayed tag to the musicdetails entry, then jump back to wherever i was before so it doesnt piss me off if i am on the music/details screen?

dito for the rating set?

and i guess i will need to build up my own playlist on startup, which factors in the rating/lastplayed times?


any comments or hints about how to go about it?


Cheers sean.

[dalanik]

1) build up a random playlist of all tracks

Just cue all songs and turn shuffle on. I.e.
category>play all>music
music>shuffle

2) have the option of rating individual tracks as i lsiten to them and then factoring the rating into the shuffle - favourate tracks first.

There is a system for rating movies this way, i.e. add a field to the database with rating for current item. But I don't know how would it integrate into favorite tracks first... You could rate songs, and then sort on rating, so favorite songs would be on top and play first, but not with shuffle on.

3) whenever a track is played i want to add/update a lastplayed tag, this can then also be factored into the playback (least played first) - i have 8/9000 tracks yet shuffle as an uncanny nack of playing the same tracks for me!

I believe it's not possible in XLobby now...

D.

[S Pittaway]

I have a working if simple jukebox mode working has you said - it hits shuffle, then play and all works fine

I just wanted it to be a bit flasher.

i know how to add fileds to the selected album (using category add) dito for adding track tags (via musicdetails), but i i dont know how to add a field to the current song?

i have audioplayer>now>XXX is there an easy way of adding tags to the current track (not the album)?

i also could do with a track change event but i havent seen one knocking about?

[S Pittaway]

ps,

am i the only one who always spells fields as fileds?

[m_ski]

See the bottom of this post http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4386&highlight=lastplayed showing how I implement a 'lastplayed' album feature - I haven't got it to work for individual tracks yet though.

Might be helpful for you.

[S Pittaway]

yep, i was reading that before and it gave me a push to go for it and try and get it working for tracks as well