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<blockquote data-quote="staverton" data-source="post: 9748" data-attributes="member: 11205">Well at least that's a a start.&nbsp; From what I've deduced from the plugin apis I have 3 options:1: Make a seperate gui plugin that played music with a randomise option, (and the ability to rate tracks).&nbsp; This would be poor as you'd want to maintain it alongside the main My Music plugin.2: Make a process plugin that affected the way the music plugin worked, ie - played random tracks from the playlist based on rating, but I wouldn't be able to add a 'Randomise' button to the interface, and turning it on and off would be a pain.3: Write a patch for the existing My Music plugin, so that the functionality would integrated and the feature could be easily switched off at will.Another thought occured to me also, that instead of having to rate a song, you could influence the randomisation based on the number of times the track has been played, maybe with a bias on how recently the song was played so you didnt keep propagaing songs that were your favourite thing 3 months ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="staverton, post: 9748, member: 11205"] Well at least that's a a start. From what I've deduced from the plugin apis I have 3 options: 1: Make a seperate gui plugin that played music with a randomise option, (and the ability to rate tracks). This would be poor as you'd want to maintain it alongside the main My Music plugin. 2: Make a process plugin that affected the way the music plugin worked, ie - played random tracks from the playlist based on rating, but I wouldn't be able to add a 'Randomise' button to the interface, and turning it on and off would be a pain. 3: Write a patch for the existing My Music plugin, so that the functionality would integrated and the feature could be easily switched off at will. Another thought occured to me also, that instead of having to rate a song, you could influence the randomisation based on the number of times the track has been played, maybe with a bias on how recently the song was played so you didnt keep propagaing songs that were your favourite thing 3 months ago. [/QUOTE]

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