Would like to generate 800mb playlist in Winamp

randomly

July 16, 2005 7:53 PM from

Windows Media Player has a really nifty feature which can grab any amount of music (like 1 gigs worth, or 1 cd worth, etc) and generate a random play list which can then be sent to a portable media player. Unfortunately it also puts them on the media player the same way the music is stored on the hard drive. I have my library set up as d:\music\wma\artist\album1\song1, song2... So, my media player ends up with root\music\artist1\album1\song1, artist15\album3\song7,etc which is extremely cumbersome. I have been able to get WMP to just load the songs into the root of the PMP (song1, song2, song3, etc..., but there is a restriction on the number of entries which can exist in the root folder.

Is there anyway to get winamp to generate this same sort of random sized play list? Yes I can drag n' drop individual songs, but that takes a long time! I just want to end up with a randomize list of songs which fits my PMP capacity with no folder structure.
I have perused the winamp plugin section, but there was nothing like this available.
Thanks.

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Reply #1 July 16, 2005 9:20 PM from

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Ah.........HUM

Reply #2 July 16, 2005 9:30 PM from

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Hi WOM!! Nice to see you

What is the meaning of your response?

Reply #3 July 16, 2005 11:22 PM from

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Ah, I don't know the answer, but wanted to let ya know I still think about ya. Drive on over and we'll get something to eat.

Reply #4 July 17, 2005 6:10 AM from

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You can change the way WMP organize your music files. Have a look in the settings under "Library" and "Ripping".

Reply #5 July 17, 2005 9:55 AM from

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thomassen, I suppose I could change them around just for sync purposes and then change them back afterwards. Kind of a pain, but it would work. thanks.

WOM, thanks for the invite. I no longer have a vehicle capable of driving that far. My little bundle of joy totalled my corolla. (she's fine didn't receive any injuries, which was the only thing that mattered). So now I drive this '89 chevy pick up with 218K miles on it. gets me to work and back, but thats about all

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