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Is there a way with SilverJuke to control how many fast songs are played before a slow one is allowed in kiosk mode. I could tag songs as fast or slow, but need a way of telling silverjuke to only play requested slow songs every 20mins or every 4th song. Any ideas of how to handle this? Thanks.
I'm not sure if this is really possible by a script, however, I would give this a try first.
Regards,
B.
Unfortunately... I haven't the first clue of how to script this. Any other ideas of getting something close to this with current functionality? Thanks for any help.
Can anyone script this type of need? Or get me pointed in the right direction to learn how to script this so I can give it a try? Thanks.
Guest wrote:
> Can anyone script this type of need? Or get me
> pointed in the right direction to learn how to
> script this so I can give it a try? Thanks.
Where do the slow songs come from, do users enter them? What should happen with the songs, should they shift backbards in time, or should the user get a warning the song cannot be queued? What should happen if there are only slow songs left in the queue?
(By the way: better create a forum account, that way you also get email notifications if any question or hint is posted).
SilverEagle
That is weird... I responded to this yesterday... but when I went to check my post was not there. I took your advice and opened an account... thanks for the tip on getting the emails.
I really appreciate your taking a look at this. The way I am thinking about it is... as songs are played in the queue... there should be a counter that will watch for ~4 songs (I can tag anywhere... probably comments field) and after 4 songs allow a slow one to be played. If a slow song comes up before 4 fast songs have been played then push the slow song back one in the queue.
I haven't really thought much about what if there are only slow songs left in the queue. I will be using autoplay when there are no songs chosen... perhaps autoplay can be triggered to pull a song to meet the fast song quota. I am not too worried about this scenerio but it is a good one to thing about. Thanks for any help you can give.
tbeckman wrote:
> That is weird... I responded to this yesterday...
> but when I went to check my post was not there.
Forum has button for preview, then you must click again to actually post. I still get bitten by that once every few weeks and discard a nice post, maybe you did the same...
> I took your advice and opened an account...
> thanks for the tip on getting the emails.
Welcome on board 
I'll have a deep think about what scripting could do for you, in the meantime:
> I can tag anywhere... probably comments field
You could try using the beats-per-minute field in the MP3 tags. Silverjuke should import that into its database, try creating a music filter showing only your slow songs to test it out. You can edit the BMP from inside SJ and write it back I think, but I must confess I never tried anything like that. But comments will probably work as well in a pinch, but depending on the source of your music collection BPM might be already filled in for a lot of them so that route would save you some tedious work.
SilverEagle
Hi tbeckman,
Got your script ready!
SilverEagle
Awesome... I am going to try this out tonight... sorry for not getting to the sooner. Really appreciate your time to work on this.
Can you tell me when the script actually moves songs... is it when it is chosen, when a song ends or other? Also, I noticed your wording says a "minimum" of 4 consecutive songs... does that mean it will play more than 4 songs sometimes? Tell me if I have this right... but it looks like it waits for one slow song to play and then makes sure a second one doesn't play till 4 have passed through? Thanks... this is great.
