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I've been using MPD (+ mpc, ncmpcpp, ario) for a long time now (several years). There is one thing that I miss from my iTunes usage: the party mix. It was an aw

by p4bl0 15y ago

I've been using MPD (+ mpc, ncmpcpp, ario) for a long time now (several years). There is one thing that I miss from my iTunes usage: the party mix. It was an awesome tool (at least back in iTunes v4 to v6) and I was really always in there. Basically what I want is to be able to tell my player "randomly select songs in this playlist/folder/…" and then that it shows me at some place the last 5 or 10 songs played and the next 20 to play, and let me remove songs I don't wanna listen to right now from this "songs-to-play" list, and then refill the list up to 20 songs. This way I can repeat the operation a few times and know that I have at least an hour of aweome music to come. I know I could script that up for MPD, even with just MPC and Bash (and Zenity for the cozyness), but I'm a lazy guy and I can almost reproduce the behavior with the shuffle command of MPD. You know, the worst ennemy of "great" is "good enough".

molecularbutter 15y ago
I agree, I'll sound like a freakshow but I actually like iTunes for playlists and its ability to share music libraries easily on a LAN.
- pyre 15y ago
  its ability to share music libraries *only with other iTunes users* easily on a LAN Fixed that for you.
baconhigh 15y ago
totally agree - same situation, mpd/mpc, various iphone/android clients to interface with mpd and really missing party mix / genius style stuff.
simcop2387 15y ago
I've actually got a script that I've made for doing that. I've been cleaning it up somewhat recently for doing a proper release. It lets you schedule things based off of any ICAL based calendar along with just a set of default playlists. It's probably a little more obtuse and annoying than just the party mix thing in iTunes since I originally designed it for running a jukebox/micro FM station. https://github.com/simcop2387/MediaSched https://github.com/simcop2387/MediaSched

by p4bl0 15y ago

molecularbutter 15y ago

I agree, I'll sound like a freakshow but I actually like iTunes for playlists and its ability to share music libraries easily on a LAN.

pyre 15y ago
its ability to share music libraries *only with other iTunes users* easily on a LAN Fixed that for you.

baconhigh 15y ago

totally agree - same situation, mpd/mpc, various iphone/android clients to interface with mpd and really missing party mix / genius style stuff.

simcop2387 15y ago

I've actually got a script that I've made for doing that. I've been cleaning it up somewhat recently for doing a proper release. It lets you schedule things based off of any ICAL based calendar along with just a set of default playlists. It's probably a little more obtuse and annoying than just the party mix thing in iTunes since I originally designed it for running a jukebox/micro FM station. https://github.com/simcop2387/MediaSched https://github.com/simcop2387/MediaSched