[Resume after missing file]

1 hour ago, andrewilley said:

If it doesn't find a match, the filename will be shown as a placeholder so you know there's an unplayable item in the list.

Yes

The problem lies in that part of the explanation

When the player doesn't find a match, it stops playing.

Instead, it should add the placeholder and resume the playback

How to change this behavior ?

 

Thank you all for the support so far

 

 

 

[Resume after missing file]

In my case, it's only one or the other file that is missing. Not a string of missing files. My behavior is in disaccord to the expected behavior, apparently.

I'm playing from a playlist, by the way. A playlist with a broken entry here or there among hundreds of good files.

 

Poweramp 939

 

This reminds me of a suggestion: a way to heal the playlist (including the .m3u) using a set of metadata and file/folder names to identify a song that has changed somehow.

There is the Resolve playlist option, but it doesn't do a deeper fixing when the filename or folder has changed, for instante.

I know this could cause misassociations, but it's a risk the user will be happy to take when all their .m3u is destroyed...

You may also use comments (#) to write tags on the .m3u to facilitate reassociation

 

[Resume after missing file]

I cannot find that option to resume playback after a file fails to play for being absent on the disk...

The playback completely stops when that happens, and I have to hit Next then Play.

 

The search function on the settings is not finding this option

 

 

[Shuffle is not random]

Your solution works !

And works for any playlist, not just the All Songs.
If I switch to another playlist, it will remember.

Resolved !

Thank you

The only imperfection about this fix is that if I jump to a song in the middle of the playlist, once that song ends, it will continue from there instead of resuming the previous sequence. Gets worse if I choose a song above on the playlist instead of below.

 

For the sake of curiosity:
The problems you listed are easy to overcome:

- The banishment lasts until all the songs on the playlist have been played. And, the blocking is only valid for THAT specific playlist.
Not much different than the "list position memory" we already have.

- If an user wants to listen again to a song on that playlist, all he must do is to click on it, as it won't disappear from the playlist after played, only be skipped by the engine. 

This system is amazing if I want to keep the list alphabetically, and play at random

That's sincerely something I miss here from Winamp

[Shuffle is not random]

 

On 6/18/2020 at 1:22 PM, andrewilley said:

As long as you don't start a new shuffle, you won't hear the same song twice. If you do reshuffle, the new list will be completely random and thus will contain all of the same songs at some point in the playback. That's what the no-reshuffle option was designed for, if you do enable that mode then the order doesn't get re-randomised and thus you won't hear recent songs again (as long as you don't change the playback position within the running order manually of course).

Andre

 

I'd like to reopen this topic. Because.. Well... The answer above leaves us on a conundrum !

 

It took us the whole topic to conclude that I need the no-reshuffle option OFF if I want to shuffle. And I DO want to shuffle. Or at least not hear the same songs everytime I run the playlist.

Yet, as I switch between many playslist depending on the party, or when the app crashes, etc, I'm met with the problem of no random playback (songs repeat).

 

We need a third system. One that memorizes the already played songs, and skip them.

Not to insult, but... Winamp has it since before I was born...

On it, the songs are sorted alfphabetically (perfect), and played randomly, with the care of not repeating, even after I close the program.

 

[Shuffle is not random]

@andrewilley @andrewilley @MotleyG

 

Indeedd, it was ON

Now it's off, and it's FIXED.

 

If I use the Shuffle button on the playlist header, it used to play alphabetically before this fix.

If I re-sorted, and pushed Play, it played the randomized one.

 

Thank you both for the attention.

Resolved.

 

Now, two suggestions: 

- A better explanation of the functions on those deep menus. Explanation WITHIN the app, not outside. A little (i) button for information, would not ruin the visual.

 

- An option to memorize the playback and prevent a song to be played again in another session before the whole category reaches an end (smart shuffle).

 

 

 

[Shuffle is not random]

@andrewilley

 

Sorry for the delay. 

The warning that the topic got an answer ended up on the spam...

 

But no... Queue is empty. I check it all the time.

 

One note: on the global library (all songs), the shuffle does work (randomize the songs).

Only happens when shuffle on any Library→Playlist.

 

Gets worse: if I quit Poweramp, and come back, it always repeat the same sequence. It doesn't remember it already played that song (dumb shuffle, as known)

[Shuffle is not random]

The title says it: the shuffle feature is not random.

I have a m3u8 playlist with songs sorted alphabetically.

When, on the library, I select this playlist and press Shuffle, it starts playing in the same alphabetical order.

By the way:

When I do the above, this Shuffle Songs/Categories is selected by default. How to change this default to Shuffle Songs instead ?

Anyway...

I can select any of the above shuffle modes while playing, and it doesn't matter: it keeps playing alphabetically.

 

I read on this FAQ the word random many times on the suffle section, so I'm not crazy: It really should be random.

Poweramp V3.871