Have you ever wanted your Shozy to be able to act as a 'shuffle all' type player? Well now you can and here's how;
1) Using your favorite desktop pc music playing program (foobar, winamp etc) create a playlist with all the songs you'd like on your Alien Shozy (be sure that these are of course FLAC or WAV only). Now save that playlist somewhere easy (like desktop)
2) Download and install
Amok Playlist Copy
3) Drag n drop the m3u playlist file into Amok Playlist Copy
4) Click Copy/Save and select 'Advanced Copy'
5) Select the Mircosd card (that is intended for the Shozy) as your Target Folder
6) Click Ok
7) Once completed, you should now have all the tracks on yer microsdcard that existed on the playlist, be sure to delete the 'playlist.m3u' file left behind as we won't be needing that.
8) Now download and install
Python
9) Go here and grab my
randomiser.py file that my tech savy friend created, it's going to do the shuffling
10) Now... drag and drop the folder that you want shuffled onto the 'randomiser.py' file, you will notice it shuffles all the files randomly and has now added 0001 0002 0003 etc etc to the beginning of each file
11) Even better is you can keep dragging and dropping the file multiple times and it will continue to randomize each time!
That's it basically.
I don't own a Alien Shozy, but I'm very close to pulling the trigger and grabbing one, but I'm very forward thinking about how I might adapt a screenless non shuffling non resume type player to my needs.
Yes it's nice to be 'forced' to listen to albums all the way through etc, but to be honest how I use my DAPs most of the time is to make a playlist (sometimes OTG if the DAP supports it, otherwise on PC) and shuffle it. I do this from day to day depending upon what mood I'm in each day etc.
This process outlined above basically should do what I want. One folder, all the files in it, shuffled randomly and then hit play. Once finished with the DAP I'm aware you can't resume where you left off (or can you?), so that's where the drag and drop the folder a second time onto the randomiser.py file comes in, you can keep shuffling to yer hearts content.
I can't see how any of this won't work, I tested Amok with FLAC and it worked, I just haven't tested with WAV files yet, but the script is set to do it with WAVs too (it just might be Amok that can't copy the WAV files... I dunno).
I'm thinking about placing my hands on a really fast microsd card as well and see just how fast Amok can copy files onto the card (the randomiser should be fairly quick).
Lemme know if anyone has a go and what yer results are.
Cheers,
Bruce
