Creating a simple shuffle play button

user1234

I've been wanting this feature for a long time, so I'm developing it myself. I have never worked with qt before so require a little help.

I would like to have a button that starts playing the playlist after shuffling (instead of having to manually click on a random track from the playlist, it's just inconvenient). This button would be positioned between the "Clear Playlist" and "Undo" buttons.

I probably would have to create a new action in mainwindow.ui and add it to ui_->playlist->SetActions. And then create a corresponding function PlaylistShufflePlay() for it where shuffle (I couldn't find a function for this) is called before calling PlaylistPlay().

Can somebody point me in the right direction on how this should be implemented?

user1234

Hi @jonas can you help me?

jonas

@user1234
I don't understand what you want to do here. Why can't you just press play?
But you would need to do this in Mainwindow, Player and Playlist classes.

user1234

@jonas

I don't understand what you want to do here.

I'll try to explain again:

So, let's say I'm playing a track from playlist A
Now, I would like to start playing a random track from playlist B

To do this, I would have to

Click on playlist B
Select a random track manually from playlist B (or ctrl+h and then select a track)
Double click on the track to start playing it

Why can't you just press play?

The play button controls the currently playing track (from playlist A, in my example)
So, pressing play just plays/pauses the current playing track

Solution

A button that shuffles the current selected playlist (not the one that is currently playing) and then plays a track from it.

Behavior when using this modified feature

I am playing a track from playlist A
I press play/pause button: the current track plays/pauses
I click on playlist B
There is a "Shuffle Play" button between the "Clear Playlist" and "Undo" buttons. I click on "Shuffle Play"
The playlist B is shuffled and a random track from the playlist B starts playing

Hope this makes it clear. I'm pretty sure many people would like to have such a feature, it is pretty convenient this way.

mukmuk

@user1234 id love a function like this, it feels ridiculous that this amazing full feature music player cant easily do something as simple as properly shuffle playlists.

for that matter, neither the general shuffle function nor the shuffle playlist function do anything for me in that regard. i am simply unable to make the player choose a random playback order for any given playlist. it will always follow the album order, even if i manually pick a random track to start with...