no conversion in JPlay hibernate mode with AO core

[DavidHB]

(17-04-2015 15:57)riboge Wrote:  

(17-04-2015 12:50)simoncn Wrote:  It occurs to me that this limitation of the Linn renderers might provide a solution to the requirement. If MinimServer were to provide a "random" sort order option for the "n items" list, the user could add the randomized "n items" list to the renderer playlist and only the first 1000 tracks from this list would actually be added. These 1000 tracks could then be played randomly.

I am not sure I follow this but it seems that Kazoo is to make an n item list which minimserver would then randomize, but Kazoo will only make up to a 1000 item list, no? If we could get a list of all library tracks as a list that minimserver could randomize and then enter the result into Kazoo we would, in a very cumbersome way, have the right result, but I am not seeing how you are saying that is possible.

The point is that 1000 tracks is a Linn limitation (I think from memory that Simon is correct in pointing out that this is a limitation of the renderers themselves and not just of the Kazoo software). If you can get Minimserver to produce a random playlist of your complete library, only the first 1000 tracks would load into the player (and could then be played randomly), but at least those 1000 tracks would have been randomly selected. Any time you instructed MinimServer to re-create its random list, a different random playlist of 1000 tracks would be loaded.

One assumes that this would also work with other players with different limitations. Tracks would be loaded from the random list up to whatever limit was imposed by the player. MinimServer would work in the same way for every player.

Simon's suggestion seems to me to be rather neat, and would make a nice new feature.

David