[MPlayer-users] Re: shuffle for playlists

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Alban Bedel,

on Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:35:10 +0200 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi Jim Clark,
> 
> on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:31:01 -0400 you wrote:
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> > DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > >> On my system this doesn't work. No matter where I put the -shuffle,
> > >> playlists
> > >> are not shuffled (whether it is a remote playlist or a local one).
> > >>
> > >> If I use a list of filenames on the command line, these get
> > >shuffled, so> I know that shuffling is possible.
> > 
> > >> (although, the shuffling order is always the same - shouldn't the
> > >> shuffling be different everytime around??)/
> > 
> > OK,  I was just being stupid here. My playlist only had 3 songs and it
> > was just repeating in the same order by chance. Doing it a few times
> > gives different results.
> I run into the same ;)
> 
> > Playing around some, I found that I have to add -playlist to get the
> > shuffling on
> > a playlist "file". i.e.      mplayer -playlist mylist.m3u -shuffle
> > works fine.
> > But the -playlist option doesn't seem to work for URLs. And the
> > shuffling doesn't
> > work (for me) without the -playlist option with a single playlist.
> > 
> > So for now I did a workaround, where I downloaded the remote playlists
> > and edited
> > them (with a sed script) to add the URLs "inside" the playlist file.
> > This works OK,
> > but I would rather have it play the remote playlist!
> Sure, i'll check that.
It's fixed in cvs now.
	Albeu


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