My top MP3 player requests
Top MP3 player requests:
1. Flag songs/albums/folders as “never play randomly” for Christmas and holiday tunes, novelty tunes, audiobooks, movie quotes. They should play when double clicked, or when in a playlist, but otherwise no.
2. Avoid similar songs in Shuffle -- it should do this by avoiding songs with one or more similar tags (perhaps just song title but could also be for artist and album too), checking the play history to make sure it’s been a while since a song’s been played. Large music collections often have multiple takes/versions/renditions of the same song. Would work great on a Christmas shuffle to make sure 3 different versions of “Jingle Bells” don’t play back to back. Update: Looks like iTunes has this already; it’s called Smart Shuffle.
3. Give me one or two click access to nuke a song from playback, and off my disk. This should be available whenever a song is playing, whether it’s on my PC or on a portable player. Shuffle turns up a lot of junk that I don’t want on my iPod or my hard disk anymore, and there’s no easy way to do this. This request is actually part of a bigger point-of-access UI request -- that I should be able to access options for my music regardless of how I found it.
4. When I skip a song before it’s fully over, mark it as “played”, so that shuffle doesn’t decide to play it again a few song later.
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April 1st, 2007 at 5:09 pm
I totally agree with #3, it happens to me with winamp all the time, I’ll delete the file from the playlist….and cringe a moment later, knowing its on my hard-drive…somewhere…just waiting…waiting to be added back onto another playlist….the horror, the horror
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
---1. Flag songs/albums/folders as “never play randomly” for Christmas and holiday tunes, novelty tunes, audiobooks, movie quotes. They should play when double clicked, or when in a playlist, but otherwise no. ---
I would also include podcasts and internet radio… I listen to SomaFM and I marked several of the stations with five stars so now and then when I’m shuffling my top rated it hits this station and stays there until I realize what happened.
As for your points 2, 3 and 4 I total agree. I’d love it if when a song is skipped it would be marked as played…
Good Job Hanford!
April 25th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
RohoMech—I’m not on a PC right now but in WinAmp I thought that it was pretty easy to delete files that appear in a playlist (a “remove” button at the bottom of the playlist or something?).
I think that it should be possible to turn off “avoid consecutive similar songs in shuffle” if it is implemented. Things that try to be cleaver are often irritating (paperclip anyone?).
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Well, 4th request is mine too. It’s a big problem for ordinary player.