Board 8 > Is there a music player with a shuffle mode that lets you keep tracks together?

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Say in a library of 200 songs, I have 150 assorted standalone songs, and then 5 whole albums of 10 songs each. One of those is a themed album where each track builds on the last. One of those doesn't necessarily need to be listened to in order, but it does have one track that leads into another in a very cool way that enhances the listening experience.

I'd like to set a music player to shuffle, playing my songs in a random order, except in addition I want to be able to tell it, "If you ever play Song X, you must play Song Y afterwards."

The trivial solution is to use sound editing software to combine Song X and Song Y into one new mp3. But this isn't very practical if I want to keep using this feature over and over again. Also then we'd run into a problem where the title of that "track" would be something unwieldy and unhelpful like "Song X and Song Y" or, in the worst case, one 90-minute-long mp3 titled "Some Album".

I know this isn't a terribly important feature, and most people would probably never use it. I'm just curious, because it seems like it wouldn't be that hard to program. And I'd probably use it a little (probably not for full albums, but I can certainly think of a few good "Track A leading into Track B" scenarios I'd like to preserve while on shuffle).

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make a playlist?

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I understand what you're asking and I don't think a playlist will suffice. I sometimes listen to my library on shuffle and whenever, for example, Golden Slumbers comes up I have to manually adjust it so that Carry That Weight comes next.

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Make the two tracks into one track. Problem solved.

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KingButz posted...
Make the two tracks into one track. Problem solved.

That's what I do. It's time consuming though, especially if you don't remove the gap between two tracks that flow together.

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man in today's smartphone age, this should be pretty trivial to implement, someone should get on it.

I get you and I want this

I wondered about this before myself. Sounds trivial enough to implement.

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You can!

In itunes:
Select all the songs you want to play together (hold shift). Right click, get info. Under info look where it says grouping and name it something. Then go to controls, shuffle, check by grouping. Then turn shuffle on. Now it will randomly play songs on that playlist and if one comes up it will play the rest in order.

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downside:

you'd be using itunes.

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indeed

can winamp do this?

You can randomize a winamp play list then move the tracks around as you see fit.

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shadosneko posted...
You can randomize a winamp play list then move the tracks around as you see fit.
I like the element of surprise whenever I shuffle so that doesn't really work because I can already see what's coming up next!

Ooooh thanks Menji! I have zero problem using iTunes. In fact, that's kind of preferable. I have an iPhone and an iPad, and it's no big deal to use iTunes on my PC to get that synergy. Pretty much the best answer I could have hoped for!

I think between the original post and various other people's posts, it should be clear why the other solutions don't suffice.

I guess I'll start using iTunes!

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