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Questions tagged [shuffle]

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Is there a media/music player program that has a "biased" shuffle?

I know in iTunes and a few other apps you can get playlists for just "highly rated" songs, but that's not quite what I want. I want to hear the lower-rated stuff, too. If I didn't like the song at some level it wouldn't be in my library in the…
Joel Coehoorn
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Is there a way to see all songs in iTunes which have "Skip when shuffling" option enabled?

The iTunes application allows a track to be marked as "skip when shuffling", meaning it will never be played when the iPod is in shuffle (i.e. random) play mode. It is possible to set up a smart playlist to find all tracks by genre, play count, last…
LeopardSkinPillBoxHat
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How is shuffling done by various music players

I was wondering if there might be a fixed pattern/algorithm being followed by various music player for shuffling the playlist. From my guess i could figure it out that these media players uses same algorithm for shuffling. I say so that practically…
Mohsin Akhtar
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open a random file in osx with command line

I'd like to open a randomly selected file via the terminal. I found shuf, which seems to be just the utility that I need, although I cannot figure out a way to make the command I'm working with recursive. Initially I used open $(ls | gshuf -n1),…
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How to shuffle videos with specifics videos in between

I have nearly 1000 video songs and i want to shuffle them and add specific video (Like Ads) in between them. So when i play videos with shuffle, after every 2-3 songs Ad video will be played. Is it possible with any software? I am using windows 7.
HungryDB
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VLC Playlist with Settings

Is it posible to store playlists in VLC Player with e.g. shuffle and repeat selected. I have a playlist where I would rather have it start with a random track than having it start with the first tract - and preferably it should also repeat.
Morten Repsdorph Husfeldt
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Ubuntu 9.10/Compiz swap windows on workspaces (like taskbar shuffle for workspaces)

How can I move all the windows on one workspace to another workspace (all at once)? It doesn't seem to be possible from the gnome-panel applet (workspace switcher). Separately, can start me on the way of writing this software (like taskbar shuffle…
user10580
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How to shuffle large text files efficiently while piping it on Linux?

I have a text file that is couple GBs. I am trying to shuffle this text file in a pipe. For example these are some sample lines of what I am using but it is not efficient and in fact the pipe does not seem to start until the whole file is read.…
yarun can
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How do I make only *one* specific playlist have "shuffle play order" in foobar2000?

For many years, I used Winamp. I almost always had the "Shuffle" checkbox checked. Since I switched to foobar2000 about ten years ago, my music listening pattern has changed completely. 99.99% of my songs were never played, because I had to actively…
Sriyan
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Shuffle rows independently in a large file

I need to generate a random shuffle a very large csv (where I don't know in advance how many columns would be) in this way. So I have to go from this form 1,a,... 2,b,... 3,c,... to something like this 3,b,... 1,c,... 2,a,... I know I can shuffle…
emanuele
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