[mythtv] MythMusic's smart shuffle problem?

[Tako Schotanus]

m0j0.j0j0 wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:08, Tako Schotanus wrote:
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>>Yes, I did, but:
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>>1. I assumed the weights would only change the _possibility_ of a song
>>being played or not
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>The weights should determine what priority each category (rank, last
>time played, number of times played, randomness) is given when
>calculating a song's position in the playlist. For example, if you have
>rating set to 100 and everything else 0, then the playlist should be
>sorted entirely based on user-assigned rating. If everything is 25, then
>each category figures in evenly. 
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Sorry about the confusing, but when I talked about weights I actually 
meant the ranking.
Can the ranking even have high values like 100? The max. I see is 10 
(the max number of ranking * in the GUI).
This is what I see in my database:

mysql> select distinct rating, count(rating) from musicmetadata group by 
rating;
+--------+---------------+
| rating | count(rating) |
+--------+---------------+
|      0 |             1 |
|      1 |             1 |
|      2 |             3 |
|      3 |             5 |
|      4 |             2 |
|      5 |           593 |
|      6 |            17 |
|      7 |            13 |
|      8 |             4 |
|      9 |             1 |
|     10 |             2 |
+--------+---------------+
11 rows in set (0.03 sec)

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>>2. The song that it always plays first does not even have one of the
>>highest weights that I have assigned
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>>It seems almost like it's doing some kind of "album play" because it
>>seems to stick to the songs from one album before changing to another,
>>while the behaviour I can remember from before when it still worked that
>>way it was supposed to it played a couple of songs from the same album
>>before switching to another. But I might be mistaken herem, it was been
>>a while that things were working correctly.
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>Odd... Does musicmetadata in your database have all the columns: rating,
>lastplay & playcount?
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It has all those columns, yes.

-Tako