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Shuffle behavior - Winamp style

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Bonus DJing tip: Try making a randomized playlist like we discussed here. Now go through and cherry-pick the best tracks using the playback queue. When you're done with the cherry-picked tracks, it will default to normal shuffle play, but you'll get shuffled, awesome tracks first.

This technique is one of my favourites.

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Mind you, you do lose the benefit of having your playlists sorted all prettily when shuffling them, but the only way to get around *that* and still get this functionality that I can think of would essentially be to have two playlists, one for determining playback order and one for display purposes, and that feels like an absurd amount of overkill to me.
Use deterministic shuffling like something using $crc32 and you can easily switch between sorts. One key-press -> shuffled, another -> sorted. You'll only have a single shuffle list that you switch from/to, but that's configurable.

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One thing I have wished for along these lines, though, is for, after playing a queued track, the player to automatically return you to the playlist (and position within that playlist) you were in before. But there are enough workarounds for this that it's not a big deal at all.
Drag the "queued" track to right after the current track in your shuffled playlist. No playback queue required, and you go right back to where you were after. Using playlist search and drag-and-drop, this is very fast.
 

Shuffle behavior - Winamp style

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Drag the "queued" track to right after the current track in your shuffled playlist. No playback queue required, and you go right back to where you were after. Using playlist search and drag-and-drop, this is very fast.


My specific wish for this queue behavior comes mostly from playing from autoplaylists, which admittedly isn't what was being talked about earlier in this thread. (An autoplaylist tied to last_played and rating and whatever else is the best solution I've found for making absolutely sure I don't hear repeats when on random or shuffle play unless I really want to, though, which is what I care about more than preserving a specific shuffle order.)

Still, easy enough to work around, and really only an issue if the track I want to queue up isn't already in the autoplaylist in the first place.