Feature Request

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  • A shuffle feature that plays songs in a random order.
  • A right click context menu for songs in the playlist. especially “play next” option. other options could be “add to a existing playlist” “do not play today” etc.
  • maybe a integration of infinitejukebox/ethernaljukebox. sourcecode is FOSS on github.
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Hey & thanks for your feedback! The playlist system does actually have a shuffle feature. At the top left of a playlist your find a shuffle icon, when activated the items in the list are played in random order. Can you explain the idea of integrating ethernaljukebox a little bit?

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hey thanks for the quick reply. sorry that i took some time to come back to you.

so first of all thanks for the shuffle button, my bad eyes, i didnt see it.

so, what ethernaljukebox does is pretty simply but yet very magical. it breaks down a song into it beats, creating a pie chart in the size of the total beats that occur in a song. each beat has a different flavor per se, since a song is always dynamic. coincidencially, songs have repeating patterns and finding these repeating patterns is what ethernaljukebox does.
for each beat that is almost similar, aka above a “identical” threshold, it gives the playback a chance to branch to that other pie during play!
some songs generate a lot of branches, some create less branches.
the joy comes from listening to music in a different way, listening to a piece of art in a sense that gives you the stimulation of patterns but you decide when it stops.

why do i want to see the feature in w2g? well the technology has been around since some time but hasnt spread far, mostly due to nonexistent monetizing of such. but i still believe it should be available to a large scope of people, especially those that arent geeks like me. in other words, we are running out of websites that host this amazing piece of FOSS.

cheers, Vanqy

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Thanks a lot for that intro to ethernaljukebox! It sounds amazing and i’ll have a look at it. I just wonder how a group experience of this could look like. Does the software play a random new version of the song? Or is it somehow interactive so that users can influence the playback?

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Hello Florian,

sorry for the late reply. Yes actually user can interact with the jukebox in a way that modifies how likely the player is going to branch between different beats, what the probability ranges are, the minimum branch distance, the similarity threshold and more.

here is a working mirror of EJ: The Eternal Jukebox

Vanqy