Collections in the XMMS2 music player [LWN.net]

Collections in the XMMS2 music player

Posted Jun 14, 2007 16:54 UTC (Thu) by scevey (guest, #45734)
In reply to: Collections in the XMMS2 music player by nix
Parent article: Collections in the XMMS2 music player

Good point.

This has been discussed in the XMMS2 community, and so far the idea was to introduce a "selector property" attribute to the Party Shuffle. This attribute would define what property is used to randomly enqueue media from the operand collection. For instance, if you set it to "album", whenever the Party Shuffle needs to be refilled, it will select a set of song sharing the same "album" property, thus enqueing a full work rather than a single song. The current behaviour would still be activated by default by setting the "selector property" to "id".

It's not implemented yet, but it's definitely planned (Issue #1352)!

Thanks for your input!

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Collections in the XMMS2 music player

Posted Jun 15, 2007 19:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, but even *that* isn't quite enough. Some of the stuff on my player
I'd like to be played albumwise; some is song-by-song stuff and can be
shuffled more finely.

I wonder if what we have isn't a concept of a `subcollection', where
collections of files can be grouped into a `subcollection' which has its
own operators which apply to its members by default. So the shuffling
would apply to a bunch of individual things, and a bunch of subcollections
(`albums'), and *those* then have, by default, play-in-sequence operators
applied to them.

(But maybe I'm babbling and should shut up.)