xPLRioNet Random Play

["Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

MVP is coming along nicely (including pictures and movies), but have
decided
it's time to sort the random play order issue once and for all for all the
devices.

Currently it holds a playlist of all tracks queued, and a list of whether
or
not the track has been played. Then when queueing the next song, if in
random mode, it randomly chooses an item and if it's not marked as played
it
queues it to play next. But if someone queues up 100's or 1000's of songs
it's going to struggle to find the next random unplayed track when it's
near
the end of the list. Also you can't skip back a track.

Trying to work out the best way to rewrite this, i realised i don't really
know how people want random mode to work.

Should it:

a) play randomly, but each track only once

b) play random for ever, so tracks will repeat when randomly selected

c) something else (but not both of the above!)

Any thoughts please?

Many thanks
Tony


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