[suggestion] current radio/playlist system

[sigel]

So I had some suggestions to the whole Radio/Pandora Like features you added, which I love btw!

But when I first selected Artist Radio I thought I was getting a playlist full of songs from that Artist. While I still like the 'related' artist radio it generates, I was thinking that a artist only feature would not be that bad.

I thought of 2 ways to possibly add this in if you wanted..

1) Would be to just add it as its on radio and name them differently, so you would have maybe "Artist Radio" & "Related Radio" or something.

2) In the settings you have "Artist radio, max songs per artist" which could be split into "Artist radio, max songs per artist" & "Artist radio, max songs per related artist"

Another thing I noticed with the radio is that I had a lot of Intros/Outros and skits/interludes in there. (yes its obvious i listen to hip-hop lol)
So either by default OR a setting, set a Min/Max Length for songs to include, so there are no 15sec skits/intro/outros or no 20:00 minute tracks with 18:00 minutes of silence at the end (hidden/bonus tracks), or a settings to not include tracks matching Intro/Outro/Skits etc..

Hope it makes sense, hoping others would enjoy this feature as well!

[hakko]

I've had the max/min length setting in mind too, I think that would make sense. (Even though an ideal track length differs a lot between say sludge and hip-hop radio.) One could also imagine a way to "ban" tracks from appearing in radio playlists.

An artist radio playlist that only contains songs by one artist sounds a bit like the top tracks feature + shuffle. Not exactly but close enough I think. Or at least I'm more tempted to add the min/max setting.

[sigel]

Yes that sounds cool, one way would be to maybe add an exclusion box in the settings where we can list keywords to exclude tracks in radios such as "intro|outro|skit"

[hakko]

min/max setting added in 0.7.19.