 Weighted random playlist
Recently I played some music videos for my friends. I had the playlist prepared before and played it randomly. I think I'd like to have this feature:
- I'd like to play a few videos preferentially, but still randomly. It's called weighted random.
- Every line in playlist could have optional attribute Weight (1-99, default 1), which causes higher probability of playing than the others.
- The playtlist could look like this:
Video1.avi
Video2.avi #5
Video3.avi #5
Video4.avi #20
Video5.avi
Video6.avi
...
It means, that the most probable played first are Video 4, then 2 and 3 and then the others. Value 99 means the highest probability. Explicit probability falls with total number of files. But still it's a probability, nothing can guarantee, that the file won't be played last.
The feature that all files must be played before repeating, remains unchanged.
What do you think ?
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