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Lemons to lemonaid: New favorite audio player

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nstgc:
As some may know, I "lost" a bunch of data. To avoid overwriting what may still be there, I'm using Windows. I like music -- both to listen to and as background noise. I found out that foobar2000 has a feature that Amarok once had -- play random album. Pretty much, it plays through a whole album and then picks a random album. This lessens the predictability while at the same time it doesn't destroy my playlist (I have songs that must be proceeded by another song or they sound like shit). Amurok 1.x does this, but getting it to work is annoying.

Amarok 1.x still has better features, but it also is buggy. foobar isn't.

Xiong Chiamiov:
I just started using Clementine to replace Amarok 1.4 a few days ago, because Amarok decided it no longer wanted to read my library. >_>

It's a bit buggy as well, and doesn't yet have all the features I'd like, but it's actively developed, so I'm hopeful.  I'm running off of svn, btw, because it's been a little while since they released, so that may be responsible for some of the bugginess.

xShadow:
I'm gonna use this thread to try to ask if there's a player with a feature I want: not so random randomness.

Bear with me for a sec.

Basically, what I want is something that'll play a random song by a random artist, then play another random song... by another artist (can't be the same one). Then, it'll pick another random artist, but it can't be the same as either of the two previous ones. After that song is done, if it randomly selects the first artist that was played again, the song that is played can't be from the same album that was played the first time, if the artist has more albums than one.

Now, it's fine if it doesn't do ALL of this, but I at least want something that makes it so that I can have a different artist playing for each randomly selected song.

In essence, like the random feature of foobar, but customizable to avoid some negative aspects.

nstgc:
I think thats what the Amarok 2.x "Random (artist)" feature does. I'm not sure. If you are asking about a windows audio player than I'm clueless. I'm sure that foobar will eventual offer custome scripting. You (xshadow) seem to know some programing so could surely write such a script yourself. I think Winamp allows for custom scripts (not sure though, haven't used it in years). Amarok I know allows for custom scripts.

Xiong Chiamiov:
Well, Amarok is technically multiplatform... I couldn't get both it and Dolphin to install at the same time, last I tried.

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