Shuffle between multiple playlists

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Pauldewit
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Shuffle between multiple playlists

Post by Pauldewit » Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:39 pm

Would like to see a feature that could shuffle between multiple playlists. Then you could for example combine a playlist with christmas songs with a playlist that contains non christmas songs. When you then have an option to add a "weight" to the playlist you could determine that it should play 2 non-christmas songs followed by one christmas song.

Adding christmas and non christmas songs to one playlist and shuffle that doesnt work because it may result in hearing a lot of christmas songs continiously before hearing a non-christmas song. Or the other way around.

You could also do something like this:
Rockmusicplaylist 3
Lovesong playlist 2
Traditionalplaylist 1

This would result in hearing 3 rocksongs (randomly chosen from that playlist) then 2 random lovesongs and then 1 random traditional song. After it has played the whole sequence it starts over again (chosing different songs from the playlists involved)

blaubär
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Re: Shuffle between multiple playlists

Post by blaubär » Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:58 pm

Pauldewit wrote:
Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:39 pm
Adding christmas and non christmas songs to one playlist and shuffle that doesnt work because it may result in hearing a lot of christmas songs continiously before hearing a non-christmas song. Or the other way around.
Well, that's the point of shuffling, to mix randomly. And this of course gives a non-zero-probability that some of the old order stays. So what you want is not shuffling but a sort of shuffle-plus-zipper-style-mixing.

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