2013-06-06, 00:48
Awesome addon, thanks for running with this one Bstrdsmkr.
I have no idea if you're interested in further developing or supporting this, but allow me to propose a different use case if you have any thoughts:
I'm interested in having XBMC act as a combination dj and jukebox, playing random music while allowing guests to simply and easily queue up songs should they desire. Party Mode gets close, except that new songs cut off the current selection if the guest simply uses the default select action. Unexpected and awkward.
Your addon has the capability to do it perfectly though. I'm pointing it to a custom playlist of length 1 (edited version of my current partymode.xsp), changing repeat to "Off", volume "100", and setting idle threshold to the absolute minimum. Wait a minute, a random song plays, and I am able to queue up other songs which begin as soon as the current selection is done for a non-stop interactive music session that keeps going by itself after my songs of choice are done. Brilliant.
Interestingly, the way I am using it the idle threshold value only affects the initial delay - if I start up XBMC and do nothing, the delay passes before any "background" music plays. But if I quickly queue up a song or two and let them play out, bgmusic picks up after only a very short delay. Don't know if this is intended behavior or not, but it sure works for me!
So, all this in mind, feature requests:
- possible to allow an idle threshold of 0? Being a curious meddler I of course tried editing settings.xml manually, but to no avail.
- any way to allow enabling and disabling the service (or otherwise turning the effect on and off) by way of a command I could attach to a custom skin button?
I of course completely understand if you don't want to mess with it, so pointers for this non-python-developer would be equally appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
I have no idea if you're interested in further developing or supporting this, but allow me to propose a different use case if you have any thoughts:
I'm interested in having XBMC act as a combination dj and jukebox, playing random music while allowing guests to simply and easily queue up songs should they desire. Party Mode gets close, except that new songs cut off the current selection if the guest simply uses the default select action. Unexpected and awkward.
Your addon has the capability to do it perfectly though. I'm pointing it to a custom playlist of length 1 (edited version of my current partymode.xsp), changing repeat to "Off", volume "100", and setting idle threshold to the absolute minimum. Wait a minute, a random song plays, and I am able to queue up other songs which begin as soon as the current selection is done for a non-stop interactive music session that keeps going by itself after my songs of choice are done. Brilliant.
Interestingly, the way I am using it the idle threshold value only affects the initial delay - if I start up XBMC and do nothing, the delay passes before any "background" music plays. But if I quickly queue up a song or two and let them play out, bgmusic picks up after only a very short delay. Don't know if this is intended behavior or not, but it sure works for me!
So, all this in mind, feature requests:
- possible to allow an idle threshold of 0? Being a curious meddler I of course tried editing settings.xml manually, but to no avail.
- any way to allow enabling and disabling the service (or otherwise turning the effect on and off) by way of a command I could attach to a custom skin button?
I of course completely understand if you don't want to mess with it, so pointers for this non-python-developer would be equally appreciated.
Thanks for reading.