[MikeBeecham]

I was thinking about a new feature last night, and wonder how feasible it would be to implement.

Our big TV company here in the UK, Sky TV, has a music channel whereby you can choose to listen to a genre of music, simply by choosing a relevant graphical CD cover. So, you could choose the "chillout" cd and it would play nothing but chillout all evening, etc

I wonder whether something like this would be possible via party mode (or any other kind of mode, tbh). You could use a drop-down menu of sorts, and choose a genre. Obviously this would be gather information from the id tag, but I thought it might be a neat idea.

How often have you just thought "I'd love to listen to some rock, or chillout"...perhaps this way you could?

[jmarshall]

You can do it via XML (PartyMode.xml)

I think spiff may have made it doable from the GUI as well, via the smartplayist editor - you probably get to it from context menu after starting partymode.

[spiff]

yes its all guiable. from now playing context if party mode is enabled

[MikeBeecham]

do you think it's a feature people would want to use?

[jmarshall]

Um, you CAN use it already.

Obviously it's something that people would want, as it was added already!

[spiff]

its already there. either you use party mode and edit its rules. or you just use a bunch of xsp's . i dont see us needing to do anything else

[MikeBeecham]

having an extra option that people can see, that they are able to choose a genre of music without having to edit the code every time you fancy another genre perhaps?

[jmarshall]

They can choose the Genre they want via the context menu by altering the rules for partymode.

All from the GUI.

You don't have to edit code at all.

[MikeBeecham]

who would alter the rules? is this context menu already part of pm3? I dont think I've seen it?

[spiff]

well its there. and i dont get your who would alter the rules question

[MikeBeecham]

sorry, but i didnt see the rules until now

[treXitional]

I don't have clue how to code anything in XBMC, but using the Smartplaylist XML works fine. Now I might have an new idea for a future(?) playlist engine;

Build in a feature to shorten the play length of the tracks in a playlist. For instance fading into each next track in 90 seconds - we'll never need a real DJ again!