No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

I can't get my N900 to do shuffle when listening to music with the media player. Is this common to all N900s or is there a problem with mine (well there are a million problems with mine but I mean this point specifically)?

When I select shuffle it always plays the tracks in the exact same sequence. I think this is the case even if I switch off the phone.

So let us say I have a playlist of 4 songs. It determines the shuffle sequence as 2, 4, 1, 3. No matter what it always plays in that exact same sequence. So effectively it is not shuffling, just playing in a sequence that does not change. Playing repeatedly as 2, 4,1, 3 does not equate to random anymore than playing repeatedly in 1, 2,3,4 is.

This is quite annoying because let us say I am listening to a list of 100 songs. If I am on the 40th song to play and go back and select a track which I have listened to which played 10th for example it will then play all the following songs in the same sequence after that. So to have any chance of listening to a song that has not played already I have to skip through the next 30 songs.

Real annoying. I am now having to use my blackberry as media player because of this.

I don't know if Media Box has the same issue but it has a fundamental issue which means I can't even use it to beging with - it does not see my m3u playlists.

So is there any other media player I can use that doesn't have this lack of random?

And is it just my N900 media player that has this problem? I know the media player is bad but surely Nokia could not possibly have designed a media player that does not have a real shuffle mode. If they have is there a way to fix it? I guess the built in media player is one of the closed aspects of the device so there is nothing that can be done to tweak it. Correct?

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Do you have PR 1.2 installed?
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7133

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

I much prefer Mediabox and it's shuffle is completely random.

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Yes. Version 10.2010.19-1 isn't it? Is this a bug that came with PR 1.2 or is it one that was fixed with it? Because it is not fixed on mine.

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Please log in there and make usage case where you show that it´s not working. Pretty weird because when it was marked as fixed bugzilla sent mail to people who have voted/commented/reported that bug to verify that it´s fixed.

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Media Box seems unusable for me. It does not see my m3u playlists so I have to create playlists in mediabox. As far as I can tell the only way to do this is to place a folder on a shelf then add the shelf to playlist. However, when I add the folder to shelf it also adds the album art. So when I play the playlist it treats album art as a track and so I am left with nothing playing from time to time until I press skip. Which is a problem a million times worse than the built in media player not having shuffle.

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

In the N900 media player it shows untitled album which has all Nokia ringtones etc.. which is very annoying as when i play all songs with shuffle option it plays ringtones too which is really frustrating..

is there any way to remove this from the media player but not delete from the device?

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

i am also interested in how to not show ringtones in my media player list.

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Hmm. Something is not right if ring-tones show up in N900s own media player. To check what is going on i would recommend installing tracker cfg from devel, but then again it´s devel and be careful :). (ring-tones should be in nowatchdirectory, read help from apps top menu)

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

I installed trackercfg app & under Watches in Nowatchdirectory added the foll:

/home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/Ringtones
/home/user/MyDocs/.images

And clicked on Save option & then restart tracker option..

However, after that too Ringtones continue to be shown in Media player & wallpapers in Photos app..

Where am I going wrong, please confirm?



P.s. I even tried the foll. command in x-term:

tracker-processes --hard-reset

However, it still continues to be shown.. Kindly confirm..

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Okey i have too much time right now so here is what i did:
- I installed trackercfg
- Added one of my albums to nowatchfolders
- Opened media player and looked albums. Everything there
- Close all apps (except trackercfg)
- Tapped trackerxfgs top menu and chose save
- Tapped top menu and chose "rebuild databases"
- opened xterm and run command top
- Watched tracker processes to go from 10-60 % cpu for about ~5-7 minutes and after that thumbnailerd process kicked in and did same thing (i do have very little media on my N900 so if you have full of video&audio the tracker process could probably run for 30 minutes at least)
- After those processes went away I opened media player and there was no album what i added to no watchfolder

So...Just for you :)

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

Thanks slender. Could do successfully as per your steps.

However, in media player few files name given below continue to be shown. Do you have any clue where they are located :

modular
ring
ding2
whistle
beep
phone
ding
phaser
vibe
setsound

I seems to have added all ringtones folder to nowatchfolders. However, dont know where about files are hiding. Please help me to figure out which more folders I need to add to hide all these files.

Thanks.

Re: No Shuffle/Random Mode on N900 Media Player?
 

These files are not ringtones they come with sygic navigator.
to remove them from the playlist add the following to the nowatchdir

./home/user/MyDocs/Res/

I've located these files using this command in the therminal
eighter on the phone or through ssh

find -name wishtle*.*

these files were in MyDocs/Res/sounds/ but there are also files in MyDocs/Res/voices/