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<blockquote data-quote="jburnette" data-source="post: 179440" data-attributes="member: 24356">tomtom21000,That's quite an ambitious list!&nbsp; I like a lot of those ideas and have already implemented some of them.&nbsp; Let me tell you where I'm at right now.&nbsp; Currently there is two player support.&nbsp; The two player options are &quot;simultaneous&quot; and &quot;alternating&quot;.&nbsp; Those are pretty self-explanatory.&nbsp; Simultaneous would require either two remotes or a remote and a keyboard.&nbsp; The numbers 1-4 are for player one and the numbers 6-9 are for player 2.&nbsp; Alternating would allow you to have two people (or two teams) and pass the remote back and forth.&nbsp; For that mode I have increased the dialogs that say &quot;correct&quot; and &quot;incorrect&quot; to 3.5 seconds to give you time to make the pass back and forth.&nbsp; I really wanted this to be a fast paced kind of thing so I'd rather stay away from any kind of text input with the remote as I find that to be annoying anytime I have to do it.Songs that are picked are started randomly between 10%-49% into the song.&nbsp; Only songs that are at least two minutes long are picked to be played.As for using last.fm for things, I'm afraid that would slow the game down too much.&nbsp; I would probably have to be accessing last.fm while the current song was playing, but what if you guessed after 2 seconds?I do like the idea of narrowing things by genre. Text-to-speech sounds neat but I'm not really familiar with how that works.&nbsp; I know a plugin exists for MP to do it so I'll take a look at that. All in all that looks like a good reference list to go by.&nbsp; I'll definitely take all of those into consideration, thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jburnette, post: 179440, member: 24356"] tomtom21000, That's quite an ambitious list! I like a lot of those ideas and have already implemented some of them. Let me tell you where I'm at right now. Currently there is two player support. The two player options are "simultaneous" and "alternating". Those are pretty self-explanatory. Simultaneous would require either two remotes or a remote and a keyboard. The numbers 1-4 are for player one and the numbers 6-9 are for player 2. Alternating would allow you to have two people (or two teams) and pass the remote back and forth. For that mode I have increased the dialogs that say "correct" and "incorrect" to 3.5 seconds to give you time to make the pass back and forth. I really wanted this to be a fast paced kind of thing so I'd rather stay away from any kind of text input with the remote as I find that to be annoying anytime I have to do it. Songs that are picked are started randomly between 10%-49% into the song. Only songs that are at least two minutes long are picked to be played. As for using last.fm for things, I'm afraid that would slow the game down too much. I would probably have to be accessing last.fm while the current song was playing, but what if you guessed after 2 seconds? I do like the idea of narrowing things by genre. Text-to-speech sounds neat but I'm not really familiar with how that works. I know a plugin exists for MP to do it so I'll take a look at that. All in all that looks like a good reference list to go by. I'll definitely take all of those into consideration, thanks. [/QUOTE]

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