This post is brought to you by the letter 'S' - for shuffle!
I use an iPod whilst commuting to listen to my music. I almost exclusively use it in "Shuffle" mode. Amongst the regular music it has a number of audio books, podcasts and audio learning resources (learn French type thing) contained on it.
I'm working from home today and listening the same library of content from within Media Centre via my awesome Sonorix bluetooth stereo headphones (and very pleased with them too!).
However I'm in danger of wearing out the next button on them (hold down the volume up button for 1 second). The non musical content (audio books etc) are not differentiated from the muscial content as a consequence I'm forever encountering "Page 34, how to tell people what you do" (in French of course!) or some random podcast episode!
So in the future we will be able to exclude a specific genre from shuffle play by default. In fact you can do this now by creating an active playlist in windows media player. An active playlist automatically includes content based on the rules you set up. This is how you might set something like this up...
This annoyance will one day become a "mainstream annoyance" and clever device/software manufacturers will create their products to filter these genres by default from shuffle play. Until then its playlists or nothing I'm afraid!
I use an iPod whilst commuting to listen to my music. I almost exclusively use it in "Shuffle" mode. Amongst the regular music it has a number of audio books, podcasts and audio learning resources (learn French type thing) contained on it.
I'm working from home today and listening the same library of content from within Media Centre via my awesome Sonorix bluetooth stereo headphones (and very pleased with them too!).
However I'm in danger of wearing out the next button on them (hold down the volume up button for 1 second). The non musical content (audio books etc) are not differentiated from the muscial content as a consequence I'm forever encountering "Page 34, how to tell people what you do" (in French of course!) or some random podcast episode!
So in the future we will be able to exclude a specific genre from shuffle play by default. In fact you can do this now by creating an active playlist in windows media player. An active playlist automatically includes content based on the rules you set up. This is how you might set something like this up...
This annoyance will one day become a "mainstream annoyance" and clever device/software manufacturers will create their products to filter these genres by default from shuffle play. Until then its playlists or nothing I'm afraid!
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