raglencross wrote: > > > "Play/stream -song/album/artist/year- random mix" > This would randomly play/stream your entire library. > > "Play/stream -song/album/artist/year- random mix by -genre-". > This would randomly play/stream only the specified genre for your entire > library.
Regarding a random mix by genre, the current *play some ...* syntax already does that (see https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/PlayGenre.html#35). If you say e.g. 'play some jazz' or 'play some modern classical' it will play a random mix of all tracks with the specified genre from all across your library. They will be shuffled whether the player or Echo in question has shuffle enabled or not. Similarly, *play something by ...* will play a random mix of tracks by that artist (see https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/PlaySomethingBy.html#43). For example, 'play something by Bob Seger' will produce a random mix from all your Seger tracks. Have you ever used those commands (they also have -stream -variants) ? How would your proposed command(s) be different (except in respect of a random mix from a specific year)? raglencross wrote: > > Yeah, the "misfires" were probably me experimenting with how favourites > are now handled per your No. 990 post and reorganizing my list (which > includes folders) to conform to your "levels" approach. I was missing > the point that there is a "zero" level, but once I got my head around > that and with some reorganization of my favourites list, I was able to > get the "dot" notation working predictably. However, there is one > anomaly I have noted. My favourites list, as shown in the LMS GUI, > starts with 2 folders, then a number of URL's with the final item in the > list being another folder. I would have expected the 3 folders to be > "0.1, 0.2 and 0.3", respectively, but in fact, the third folder at the > end of the list shows up as No. 24 when Mediaserver is ask to list > favourites. The contents of this folder can be access by using the dot > notation (i.e. "24.x"), so no big problem, but I would be interested in > hearing your thoughts on why a folder not at the beginning of the list > shows up apparently randomly somewhere in Mediaserver different from > it's location in the LMS GUI which changes the expected numbers for the > following items in the list. That is, even though No.24 is shown as a > folder, it is in fact the next item in the list using the DOT notation. > It would seem that a folder is given a number when it is not at the > beginning of the list which leads to confusion and why you stopped > numbering folders in the first place. MediaServer is supposed to keep the same list order as the LMS GUI (default skin) shows. It does not move folders up to the top level. A folder at the end of your favorites may indeed be nr. 24 if there are 23 other items before it. Let me check on the 0/1 for starting the count though. I've added some debugging to the favorites command so if you could please just ask to list your favorites I can take a look at what LMS is returning and how I might be messing it up somehow :rolleyes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
