Spotify shuffle

[lazka]

Original issue 1407 created by reiter.christoph on 2014-05-29T19:51:32.000Z:

This was pointed out on IRC, so collect info here.

http://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/

Potential problems:

• This needs to iterate the whole song list and group to select the first song.. so slow. We might need prefetching of the next song, this could also help with gstreamer track switch problems since we can make next() threadsafe (it currently calls gtk code)
• Group by artists or album or genre.. it would be nice to have play order options in the UI.
• We could at first implement the above algo as a playlist shuffle algo. Anyone?

[lazka]

Comment #1 originally posted by nick.boultbee on 2014-05-29T22:34:41.000Z:

Interesting. I'd also like some (but not too much) flexibility over parameters if this were to go in - artist alone doesn't always cut it. Also it's the exact opposite of what you want in some situations (Issue #703).

Haven't really thought it through properly yet, but it seems a much more manageable version could be done in the context of pre-organising a virtual queue, i.e. just like party shuffle in Issue #894. Maybe with some knowledge of history too.

Hmm am I suggesting a rethink of how playorders work completely?

[lazka]

Comment #2 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2014-06-06T18:20:46.000Z:

See Issue #1411