If you go back and forth between two folders evenly, you hear the 20 songs over twice as frequently as you would the 50 songs in the other folder.īut there are other ways to use different folders, so you don't have to make a new playlist every time. See my example at the top, where you have a selection you want to shuffle through within a shorter amount of time than another selection (say, playing 20 Beatles songs, distributed equally within 50 other Beatles songs). The idea is to keep the shuffling a part of the random experience. The idea is to have folders designed for different purposes, and you shuffle between the folders, not just IN a single playlist.
A playlist is self-contained, so you have to re-make it every time you need a different selection.
NOW you have real control of random, unexpected, AND favorite tracks.Ĭlick to expand.Just a playlist doesn't satisfy the project. It could be rotating a folder with fifty songs in it.with another folder with 250 songs in it.with another that has 500 songs in it. I don't see genres as the only way to make smart shuffling functions work, either. What if you had a mellow folder just for bedtime.and an "anything goes" folder you could flip back and forth from when only you and your significant other are listening? Maybe replace the "anything goes" folder with a "mellow Christmas" folder, for just sitting and looking at the tree, come December?ĭoes anybody make a player that can do that? Or, yacht rock songs for the wine-cooler half of your weekend barbeque. Next day, you just use the "favorite 65 Beatles songs" for a party.yet bounce-back-and-forth between that folder, and another folder, filled with other classic rock songs. What if you had two folders, and the player could choose a random track from one, then a random track from the other? Or, in Hoffman-Board-Speak, the 65 Beatles songs you could stand to hear every time you used the player.but, every other song from another folder, could contain all the other songs on all the other albums, plus the solo stuff.
Shuffling all tracks in a single folder is only a start: you get random play of everything in there. I've been talking about this for awhile now, you can see the benefit of having a player that is smarter than just a simple shuffle of one folder.if and when you tell it how to do that.
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