[lug] random album mp3 player

[dan radom]

* j davis (davis_compz at hotmail.com) wrote:
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> >From: Tony Dyson <the_anorak at worldnet.att.net>
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> >Scratch that idea. It just seems to create a list of all the tracks in all 
> >the .m3u files.
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> >Tony Dyson wrote:
> >>AFAIR xmms will play from an ".m3u" file. You could try creating one for  
> >>a selection of albums & see if it will play them randomly.
> >>
> >>Ben Luey wrote:
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> >>>This is probably a ridiculously easy question. How do I play a random
> >>>album from my mp3 collection? Xmms and Zinf (formerly freeamp) will sort 
> >>>a
> >>>playlist randomly, but I want to randomize by album, not by track /
> >>>individual file. Or, if it could select a random playlist, I could make a
> >>>play list for each album. This seems like an easy task -- can xmms or 
> >>>zinf
> >>>do this?
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> this might work if you put you playlist in /home/records
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> HTH :)
> jd
> 
> #! /usr/bin/perl
> @array = `ls /home/records`;
> $num = 0;
> foreach $i (@array){
>      $num++;
> }
> srand;                      # not needed for 5.004 and
> $index   = rand @array;
> $element = $array[$index];
> while( $num > "0"){
>       `xmms $element`;
>       $num--;
> }
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