faking shuffle in music playback

[groover km]

Reven, I'm using Music 3 at the minute (it's great) and I would love a shuffle function. Just to give you a bit of encouragement

[reven]

im attempting to fake a auto shuffle in music playback by doing

Code:

IList playlist = PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetAudioPlayList(out t, out d, out p);
int songIndex = random.Next(0, playlist.Count);
PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().PlayPlaylistTrackNumber(songIndex);

during a music change event.

this is working fine, the shuffle works perfect, however when i try to display what song is playing, the method

Code:

IList playlist = PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetAudioPlayList(out trackNumber, out duration, out playback);

keeps saying that the song that is playing is the original song (that fired the first musicchange event) and not the one i set using "PlayPlaylistTrackNumber(songindex)".


life would be easier if there was a api call
pluginHelper.ShuffleMusic = true;


anyone every try doing this before, if so any idea what might be going wrong?

[sub]

im attempting to fake a auto shuffle in music playback by doing

Code:
IList playlist = PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetAudioPlayList(out t, out d, out p);
int songIndex = random.Next(0, playlist.Count);
PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().PlayPlaylistTrackNumber(songIndex);during a music change event.

this is working fine, the shuffle works perfect, however when i try to display what song is playing, the method

Code:
IList playlist = PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetAudioPlayList(out trackNumber, out duration, out playback);keeps saying that the song that is playing is the original song (that fired the first musicchange event) and not the one i set using "PlayPlaylistTrackNumber(songindex)".

I'm not really sure why its not working, but I'll look into it for you.

life would be easier if there was a api call
pluginHelper.ShuffleMusic = true;

Sorry, I wont be adding a shuffle API (especially as a property!). Plugin developers can sort their music queue any way they want before passing it the GB-PVR music playback APIs.

[reven]

its just if a user creates a playlist on the fly, as most of the time thats what you do, you then have to manually shuffle that playlist for it to be shuffled, that means having to stop it to begin with.

i dont really care if its a property or a method, its just a handy thing that would save you from having to manually shuffle it every time you appended to the current playlist.

and every single music player that i know of, has a "shuffle/random" option that just jumps around and doesnt require you to manually shuffle the list, its a nice way to do it is all.

eg a normal situation for me
- queue up "Queen Greatest Hits" (one button)
- queue up "Metallica Metallica" (one button)
- queue up "Billy Joel Greatest hits" (one button)
- queue up "Elton John (eveything)" (one button)
- queue up "Every Rock Song (by genre)" (one button)
then i have to manually shuffle that list, which stops the music.
i then want to add some johnny cash
- queue up "Johnny Cash - American Recordings V"
johnny cash songs will no play all one after another once all the other songs have finished.
so i have to manually shuffle again, stopping playback
10 minutes later someone else wants to
- queue up "Sex Pistols (everything)
now they have to once again manually shuffle it.

it gets to be annoying, and sure i can probably get my hack way to work, it just seems like its a feature worth putting into the core.