suggestion: do not repeat artist

[Tim Bocek]

IIRC, iTunes has a similar feature with their random playlist system, where
it will avoid placing two songs by the same artist within too many songs of
each other.  First idea probably isn't too hard, and (I think) would fit
with the fuzzy bias system quite nicely.

As for the second idea, why not go off genre?  The artist link idea feels to
me like it would add a rather complicated component (both code-wise and
UI-wise) that has a somewhat limited use case - though I don't listen to
10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, OR REM, though, so I'm in absolutely no
position to understand your example.

-Tim

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Walter Little <walterplittle at gmail.com>wrote:

> I second the suggestion. To extend the idea a bit, maybe it could be
> configurable - in other words, "don't play song by same artist for n songs."
> Personally I would set such a setting to 7 or so songs before it plays
> another track by the same artist.
> Another possibility is to also provide some ability to "link" similar
> enough artists and have the above mentioned setting take those links into
> account. This is not exactly the same as what last.fm, etc. does. As an
> example: If Amarok is playing a track by "10,000 Maniacs," don't play
> another 10,000 Maniacs track OR a Natalie Merchant track for n songs. But a
> track by R.E.M. or Soul Asylum is totally acceptable for a next song -
> indeed there is something to be said for maintaining consistency in style
> across a playlist. I'm not necessarily suggesting that Amarok provide the
> specific links automatically - I would be glad to be able to define the
> rules myself for my collection.
>
> Just some thoughts - actually these thoughts have been floating around in
> my brain for 7 or 8 years now, but life kept me from being able to implement
> them....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Walter
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:35 PM, David C. Manuelda <stormbyte at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have a huge collection, with several tracks from same artists (all iron
>> maiden's albums, all from aerosmith...).
>>
>> My suggestion is an option not to repeat artist in both dynamic playlist
>> and
>> in random when all collection is loaded.
>>
>> Despite I like all of them, I don't like to hear two or more songs from
>> same
>> artist consecutive..
>>
>> Could you (devs) add an option no to allow amarok to play two songs
>> consecutive from same artist?
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