File list shuffler / Randomizer

[SanskritFritz]

Then you could burn randomized MP3's to a CD

Your player does not support shuffle play?? Hard to believe...

[Lan]

2SanskritFritz

Then you could burn randomized MP3's to a CD

Your player does not support shuffle play?? Hard to believe...

Many/some CD players capable of playing MP3's do indeed have a shuffle function. However, using that functionality you will be listening to a lot of silence because of the track search time. It's much faster for a CD player to play one MP3 after the other in the order they are burned to the CD. This omits the search time and gives you a much more pleasent transition between tracks.

Another example: When you listen to each number one by one, you can change CD or fill up your flash MP3 player with new songs when the last song is reached. You do not have that possibility when using the shuffle function in the players -> you never know when you have heard all the songs on the player.

LAN

[DWA]

Yepp I'll fine-tune it a bit and put it up on my website the next days. I'll announce that here in this thread then.

Frank:

Anything further on your random file generator software?

DWA

P.S. Where exactly is Reinbach? Near Baden Baden? I spent six years flying in Germany with the Cdn Air Force out of Zweibrucken and Baden Soelingen.

[Loc2262]

Anything further on your random file generator software?

I just put it up for download, you can get it here:

http://www.tiasoft.de/files/CopyRandom.rar

Start the exe without parameters for a help screen.

P.S. Where exactly is Reinbach?

It's about 25km southwest of the former capital Bonn.

[DWA]

2Loc2262

Frank:

I could use a little help with your randomizer software, if you would be so kind.
I've downloaded it, unpacked it and filed copyrandom.exe into a directory "A". I've moved 200+ music files into a directory "S" (source), and have created a target directory "T" for the randomized foles. All directories are on the C:\ drive.
How do I enter a command statement reflecting the directories I've described above into the command line in Total Commander which starts with C:\A> ?

[Loc2262]

To copy 200 MB:
C:\A\CopyRandom.exe C:\S C:\S C:\T 200

The meaning of the first two parameters is this: the first is the base path, the second the source path. They're normally concatenated, but if the source path starts with the same chars as the base path, those chars are ignored.

It's useful for the /U option. Let's say you have a directory C:\MP3, and under that a directory ROCK, and there 1.mp3, 2.mp3 and 3.mp3. You want to copy files from there to D:\RANDOM. If you do this:

CopyRandom.exe C:\MP3\ROCK C:\MP3\ROCK D:\RANDOM 200

the files will be directly copied to D:\RANDOM. If you do this:

CopyRandom.exe C:\MP3 ROCK D:\RANDOM 200 /U

the directory ROCK will be automatically created in D:\RANDOM and the files be put there.

Other example:

CopyRandom C:\MP3\ROCK C:\MP3\ROCK D:\RANDOM 200

C:\MP3\ROCK\80s\1.mp3 --> D:\RANDOM\80s\1.mp3
C:\MP3\ROCK\80s\2.mp3 --> D:\RANDOM\80s\2.mp3
C:\MP3\ROCK\80s\3.mp3 --> D:\RANDOM\80s\3.mp3

CopyRandom C:\MP3 ROCK D:\RANDOM 200 /U

C:\MP3\ROCK\80s\1.mp3 --> D:\RANDOM\ROCK\80s\1.mp3
C:\MP3\ROCK\80s\2.mp3 --> D:\RANDOM\ROCK\80s\2.mp3
C:\MP3\ROCK\80s\3.mp3 --> D:\RANDOM\ROCK\80s\3.mp3

[TWiStErRob]

Just use the built-in Multi-Rename Tool and add the placeholder

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[=tc.random number]

wherever you want it.