New in 7.9: "Don't Stop The Music"

[castalla]

How about an option to switch to a given radio stream (eg. one of the favourites list)?

[quadronado]

Which play option were you using? I haven't been able to get a good success out of this. I have most of my library tagged pretty well too as far as the genre. It goes all over the place with song mix(limited to current genre). If I'm playing jazz the don't stop feature seems to add every type of genre to the playlist, not just jazz. It'll be going from Miles Davis to Slipknot to Norah Jones to Run DMC. haha

I've just tried the Song Mix (limited to current genres). I listened to a jazz album and it added a perfectly pure jazz playlist. Are you sure that your library is tagged pretty well?

[DJanGo]

Are you sure that your library is tagged pretty well?

when you use the function "multiple genres" like me - it might get tricky.
You start with a track that has genre "Jazz;Ambient" its "hard to tell" what genre is picked for the next track.
bth i dont know whats the difference between "DSTM" and the old random Mix.

[mherger]

> bth i dont know whats the difference between -"DSTM"- and the old random
> Mix.

DSTM only triggers whatever other source to add tracks. But it's still
Random Play which does the mix. So the behaviour should not have changed
in any way. The only problem could be if DSTM picked the "wrong" genre.
I have to double check whether I got that right and am dealing with the
multiple genres case.

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Michael

[mherger]

> How about an option to switch to a given radio stream (eg. one of the
> favourites list)?

Yes, that's something I've had on my list, too. But I didn't want to
reveal my ideas to see what you came up with ;-).

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Michael

[amatala]

...or a favorite dynamic playlist....

[mherger]

> ...or a favorite dynamic playlist....

That would be up to the author of the dynamic playlist plugin to implement.

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Michael

[gharris999]

DSTM is working well for me. Very, very nice.

I have some "ideas".

How about exposing the DSTM options so they're a little more convenient?

E.g. a "Don't Stop the Music" control button on the webUI next to the repeat & shuffle buttons? Something that would cycle through "Disabled" and all the other "Don't Stop" options?

Also, how about exposing such a control jive-like on a now playing long-press so that iPeng, OrangeSqueeze, etc. can play too?

And eventual CLI control?

Finally, (and I understand that this is outside the scope of DSTM) how feasible would it be to further restrict random album play...not just by genre, but also by using some kind of rudimentary SOUNDEX scoring on the album title? E.g. if I'm playing Beethoven string quartets, DSTM would cue up more classical era string quartets, rather than, say, symphonies or string trios.

[kllngtme]

I've just tried the Song Mix (limited to current genres). I listened to a jazz album and it added a perfectly pure jazz playlist. Are you sure that your library is tagged pretty well?

Sorry about that, I'm not sure what happened. I thought i had it set to limited to current genres.. Apparently it wasn't so it was just random songs.. haha.. Thanks for the heads up.. It works great now that I selected the right one.

[mherger]

> E.g. a "Don't Stop the Music" control button on the webUI next to the
> repeat & shuffle buttons? Something that would cycle through "Disabled"
> and all the other "Don't Stop" options?

I'll look into this.

> Also, how about exposing such a control jive-like on a now playing
> long-press so that iPeng, OrangeSqueeze, etc. can play too?

The problem there is a long standing issue (IMHO): for the music
services we provide a context menu which is 100% mysb.com fed. And there
is no way to add anything to it from LMS. I don't know why we decided to
do this back in the days. But it prevents us to do what you're asking to
do. Adding it while playing local content only could be too confusing.

> And eventual CLI control?

Some already is available (the menu does require a CLI command). What
would you want to do?

> Finally, how feasible would it be to further restrict random album
> play...not just by genre, but also by using some kind of rudimentary
> SOUNDEX scoring on the album title? E.g. if I'm playing Beethoven
> string quartets, DSTM would cue up more classical era string quartets,
> rather than, say, symphonies or string trios.

That's the kind of "intelligence" which is not easy to implement. That
would be a major challenge. Out of the scope for LMS. It could certainly
be done in a plugin if someone felt like doing it anyway.

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Michael