05-26-2018, 09:09 AM
Hi,
I quickly realized that my "solution" to the problem of unresponsive large playlists didn't work well: creating a subset of (say) 200 tracks at boot and then using ashuffle to feed tracks to Moode meant that, inevitably, some tracks were played more than once over the course of a day (ashuffle doesn't have a Consume mode).
Instead, I now get the pi to create a new playlist containing 200 randomly selected tracks from a larger playlist. I added this to /etc/rc.local so that it runs on boot and refreshes the playlist daily (my Moode pi is set to shutdown at night):
sudo sh -c 'shuf -n 200 "/var/lib/mpd/playlists/The CDs.m3u" > "var/lib/mpd/playlists/Random.m3u"'
This "Random" playlist appears in Moode's Browse tab and will also start automatically on boot if set up that way.
Cheers,
Andy
I quickly realized that my "solution" to the problem of unresponsive large playlists didn't work well: creating a subset of (say) 200 tracks at boot and then using ashuffle to feed tracks to Moode meant that, inevitably, some tracks were played more than once over the course of a day (ashuffle doesn't have a Consume mode).
Instead, I now get the pi to create a new playlist containing 200 randomly selected tracks from a larger playlist. I added this to /etc/rc.local so that it runs on boot and refreshes the playlist daily (my Moode pi is set to shutdown at night):
sudo sh -c 'shuf -n 200 "/var/lib/mpd/playlists/The CDs.m3u" > "var/lib/mpd/playlists/Random.m3u"'
This "Random" playlist appears in Moode's Browse tab and will also start automatically on boot if set up that way.
Cheers,
Andy
