Hello,

I am trying to create a dynamic playlist of artists that I like to listen to. There are quite a number, and I have between 1 and 40 songs for each of them.

What I want is to create a dynamic playlist that gives each song an equal chance of being played. E.g. there is a 40-times greater chance of getting a song, any song, from a band with 40 songs than a band with 1 song.

One way of doing this might be to create a dynamic playlist with proportional bias and the % for each artist set to the number of their songs I have. But this seems absurdly slow and long winded... How else can I do this?

Many thanks for any help you can offer!
Christo

You should have a look at the Automated Playlist Generator in Amarok 2.3.1, that might answer your question.

OK thanks, I'll look into upgrading (I just have 2.3.0 installed from the 10.04 ubuntu repositories right now)

Have a look at http://kubuntu.org/news for newer packages of Amarok.

Thinking about it, another approach that may work is to add a comment "lyrical" to all of the files of each artist I want in the playlist, then to generate a playlist with 100% matching the comment "lyrical". Not robust if I get more music, but maybe is a way of doing it with 2.3.1?

Christo

Why adding a comment if you can use labels? You can then generate a label specific playlist with the Automated Playlist Generator.

I know and didn't mean to imply your suggestion was not sufficient, 'tis just an alternate option for people who don't want to upgrade

Well, 2.3.1 is the latest stable version and allows the use of labels and the APG.

Of course you are free to look for workarounds instead of upgrading, although it is not really a logical move.