Feature Request: More granular Repeat and Shuffle scope selection

[TaoK]

I only just realized that the "Repeat Group" setting also applies to Shuffle (when set to "Group", as opposed to "All" or "Track"), which is great!

What I am missing, personally, is the ability to define which grouping level that is. I have my personal music collection organized by folders as "Genre" - "Artist" - "Album", and I would love to be able to Shuffle within a Genre or Artist (without leaving the lovely tree view).

I realize the different views have different number of levels, and the "Tree" view in particular can have asymmetrical levels (different depths in different parts of the list), so this is non-trivial to implement, but I see at least two possible approaches:

• Add a (numeric-ish) "Group Level" selector on the "Repeat Group" selection UI, so that if you choose "Repeat Group", you can choose from "which group", with options like these. "Leaf Level" would be a special value with the current existing behavior.
  • "Leaf Level"
  • "Top Level"
  • "2nd Level"
  • "3rd Level"
  • "4th Level"
  • (more? make this a numeric selection?)
• (and/or)
• Introduce the concept of a "Current Selected Group" in the tree UI - so that you can see, and/or set, what group the "Shuffle" and "Repeat" behaviors are applying to - eg by long-pressing the group.

[souch]

I'll see this later when I have time. I did not think to your problem still, but what can be difficult too is how to integrate this to the current UI (user interface).

Now long pressing the group select the first song. I'd like too, to add the possibility to delete a song (delete the file from the phone) or to see more details on the song.

[souch]

I am thinking to make the long press open a context menu with sthg like this:
The one i am really missing *

• on dir:
  • rescan
  • rm *
  • block *
  • repeat
  • details?
• on file
  • id3 details *
  • rm *
  • block *

[souch]

Have you seen also that, while in shuffle mode, the previous button play the history of the shuffled song ?