Suggested Songs gets wedged on a single artist

[Christoph Spielmann]

Hello Martin!

I encountered the same issue and created a replacement-plugin that is
showing the "correcter" behavior for suggested songs in my eyes. It's
not 100%-bug free (well what piece of software is ;) ) but i use it on
daily basis and it well works in my case...  So if you want to have a
look at it, let me know and i'll add you to the official beta-tester
list ;)

Christoph

Martin Steigerwald schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> I tried out the dynamic playlist suggested songs via lastfm. 
>
> On my main Amarok machine - the one which is connected to my 
> hifi-equipment almost permanently - after a few variations only entries 
> from one artists get added. I tried at least advancing at least 10 tracks 
> or so to test whether another artists is chosen.
>
> On my "work" laptop I have Amarok as well with the same collection and 
> almost the same configuration - well the database diverged a bit, as I 
> copied it initially copied it from my older laptop, above Amarok machine. 
> Here I get a bit variation of about 4 to 5 artists, but not more, 
> although I have way more artists on my harddisk.
>
> I have found a hint on whats going on there, but actually I do not really 
> understand it:
>
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2006-December/002288.html
>
> What is the playlist cache used for? I think I read somewhere, that there 
> is a cache that holds 100-200 tracks for dynamic mode in advance to speed 
> up changing to the next track. Is that the playlist cache? Why does it 
> only contain the first artist and why is it used as a source for 
> Suggested Songs? I thought it would be using my complete collection as a 
> source to choose songs from.
>
> Whats the exact issue there? Is there a work-around available? I would 
> like to know this for my article as well, cause when there is a good 
> explaination and/or work-around I'd like to include it.
>
> This is with Amarok 1.4.7 on KDE 3.5.7 on Debian.
>
> Thanks in advance for any answer ;-).
>
> If that is a bug I can report it, if its not done already.
>
> Ciao,
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