#3 Shuffle mode

[ohusby]

I'm a streamium user, and evaluated mediatomb as an
alternative to the PMM-software. It worked OK on my
linux server so I will stay with it for a while. But
I miss one function which I use almost all the time.
That's the shuffle function, in order to play all my
songs in random order. Do you have that on your wish-
list for implementation?

[Jin]

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Hi,
yes, it is indeed on the wish list - I am a Streamium user
too ;) Same goes for the SMS browsing. Can't tell you how
soon it will be in though, but it is definetely on the list :)

Greetings,
Jin

[Jacob Laursen]

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Until this feature might be implemented, you can do something like this in a cronjob:

-->
#!/bin/bash

# Fetch 'randline' from:
# http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/src/#randline

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

find /mnt/ibm120/music/ -name *.flac | sort >/mnt/ibm120/playlists/all.m3u
chown <dlna user> /mnt/ibm120/playlists/all.m3u

randline -n `wc -l /mnt/ibm120/playlists/all.m3u | cut -d " " -f 1` /mnt/ibm120/playlists/all.m3u >/mnt/ibm120/playlists/all_random.m3u
chown <dlna user> /mnt/ibm120/playlists/all_random.m3u
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I have added these playlists to MediaTomb, and run the script in a cronjob each night. This gives me a new "shuffle playlist" each day. Of course, when restarting a "listening session", the playlist will start all over again, so it's not an optimal solution.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I'd also love to see this feature. My Noxon iRadio plays songs just fine, but lacks any random mode.