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What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere? (lemmy.world)
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I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 11 points 6 days ago

Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin a39b7082-e94e-4522-b2d6-f146734a8dcd

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Winamp used to do this.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago

WACUP should too then:

https://getwacup.com/

Modern winamp fork of sorts.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is like a ~~10~~ 5 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok 6 lines (untested):

while true; do
  album=$(ls albums | shuf -n 1)
  for song in $(ls albums/$album/*.mp3 | shuf); do
     mplayer $song
  done
done
[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Minus that second pipe to shuf, it seems exactly what the person wanted.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The first pipe to shuf chooses a random album and the second randomizes the order of the songs on that album. I thought that is what OP had asked for.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

I read it as play a random album straight through, first song to last song, but re-reading what they wrote, you may be right.