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Comment on The Random Album Chooser, now with integral playback by Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:27:47 +0000

Thanks for the feedback.

Do you have files with accented characters in them? I have to do some jiggery pokery with character encodings to get them into the .m3u file at all. It could be that Media Player Classic can’t read these files.

Multiple file types is something I’ve been avoiding to be honest. It is on my list of things to do though. The problem is I’ve stuck with mp3 for so long (inertia) I’ve got a lot of music to re-encode now.

Comment on The Random Album Chooser, now with integral playback by Marco

Marco — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:07:59 +0000

Hello, I just found your Random Album Chooser program through Google.

First of; I cannot use an external media player (Media Player Classic – Home Cinema – MPC-HC + ffdshow codecs) something about the pins in the graph not right with the file extension .m3u.

Also I want to use multiple filetypes. I barely use .mp3, but I mostly use .flac, .ape, .wv, and .m4a. (all lossless audio codecs).

Also when skipping to another album, it just freezes; or rather it doesn’t do anything. Maybe this has something to do with ‘no support for certain filetypes’?

Comment on How Not To Do Software Development by Davide

Davide — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:09:55 +0000

Excellent point, from two programs that do the same thing, obviously the user would select the one easier to use, and if their both easy to use, then the design matters the most.

Comment on Album Shuffle, a Random Playlist Generator by Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:21:22 +0000

Michael,

Thanks for your feedback.

How have you got your music files organised on your hard drive? It does rely on there being a single root directory with a directory for each artist containing their albums in further sub directories:

and so on.

At the moment it only searches for mp3′s as that’s what I use for my music. I did intend to get it to search for other types of music file, but I have never got round to it!.

Comment on Album Shuffle, a Random Playlist Generator by Michael

Michael — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:20:09 +0000

This is a feature I’ve been searching for in my media programs. Upon its use it appears that it’s finding all tracks by the same artist and the same album. I’d suggest using album artist instead.

Also, the ability to specify more than one file type would be handy, or maybe I’m just not sure how they’re delimited.

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