Re: MP3 Player Shufflin' Along

Peter Ward <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 May 2008 05:46:52 +0100, John Hatpin wrote:
> 
>>Hactar wrote:
>>
>>>Pseudo-random algorithms are hard to do well.
>>
>>While that's true, it should be reasonably possible for a modern MP3
>>play to play songs so much at random that should satisfy anyone. Yeah,
>>lots of "should" in there, and this is the real world, so maybe it
>>doesn't always happen.
>>
>>It's not as if the thing needs to fool a mathematician in a kind of
>>Turing test - all we're asking for here is a roughly even distribution
>>coupled with testing to see if a track's already been played
>>"recently" and a memory for "recently" long enough to convince the
>>user.
> 
> I wrote my own MP3 player program (in VB), and it allowed the user to
> select a programme period (I had it set to 4 hours), with no track
> being repeated within that period except in one special cir***stance.
> It would also, on occasion, decide to play up to five consecutive
> tracks by an artist (my setting, 10%), or an entire album (5%).  This
> last is when a track could possibly be repeated within the programme
> period.  How likely these special events were to occur was selected by
> the user.
> 
> I found it very agreeable like that.
> 
> For a while I also had an auto-DJ telling me what was being played,
> but in the end I couldn't be bothered recording the announcement
> files.
> 

Why not pull the tag information and use a text-to-speech program? 
 

 

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