Random Album

For a long time I wanted to play a random "album" in Amarok. I could not find how to do it with what existed, so I got around to write my own (first) amarok script.

It should be a playlist really, but I don't know yet how to do that. The script behaves quite like a dynamic playlist.

So here it is. It will play a random album from your collection. Upon reaching the last song, it will load a new one in the playlist.

Alternatively, you can select to play a random artist (see the configuration)

The script access the database. I've only tried with MySQL. I think that the "album" mode will work with SQLite, but not the "Artist" mode.

Version 0.3 2006 10.09

For amarok 1.4.3 and above(?) ONLY! For ealier versions use 0.2

Changed script to work with Amarol 1.4.3

The "tags" table in the database now contains the path of a file below
a given "device" (defined in table "devices"). The script now handles
that correctly using KURL.

The "album path" filter filters according to the path below the "device"
path. The device path is not taken into account

BUG
No attempt is made to check that the files do exists... This may be
problem.... There seem to be no such a method with KURL and the
"unicode" function refuse to take a QString (PyQt says it should)
so I can't convert things to use os.path.isfile()

Version 0.2 Aug 12 2006

Fixed a few bugs
The script will now terminates

Files with '?', '#',... should
now be handled correctly.Now
Pink Floyd's The Wall will play
the first track too.

Commented out the debug lines.
Some string encoding problemwould
sometime crash the script.

Change.
When dealing with multiple albums
with a common name, they will be
played in sequence rather than be
intertwined

New feature

You can specify where the albums
you want to play must be located

When using the "artist" mode, the
artist must be found in the
specified subtree, but the songs
will be selected from the whole
collection