A tool to fill the T10 with random music

[Lord Julius]

Well, it can be used for any player, but since I wrote it for my T10, I start
by posting here and see if it's good enoug to spread...

The program has been developed during a few weeks of using the T10 as a
device for listening to music while commuting, from the need to fill it with
a fresh selection of albums every now and then. Enjoy! LJ

http://www.cerebus.de/iriver/download.html, look for the LJMix link

Edit: Oh, and there is also a screenshot and a feature list up there, start here:
http://www.cerebus.de/iriver/screenshots.html

[photonbuddy]

I was writing something quite similar, but haven't had time to work on it for ages.

My program used a database of songs, added by folder, to choose random songs from. Other features I had started working on:

o Keep track of which songs have already been copied, and the more a song has been copied, the less likely it is to be copied.

o A favorites list within the database. Everyone has favorites they tend to always include when they copy music to their player. My program set a user-definable percentage of the total space to be used for favorites.

I should get back into finishing it off ...

[Lord Julius]

Yes, there is always something that existing tools don't do, and so they get
written again and again. I was inspired by MixTape, and mostly missed the
chance to copy full albums instead of songs, so I wrote my own. It'll have
to be the same for your DB based version, I guess.

[BBD]

Very nice work as usual, LJ! Any chance it could work on an iAudio U3? Was that a stupid Q?

EDIT: I re-read the OP and see you say "any player," but originally thought that meant any iRiver player....

[Lord Julius]

It just copies stuff from one place to another, so anything that shows up
as a drive in explorer is OK.

Thanks for the praise. I learned quite a lot about GUI programming and
user friendly coding from making H3Mod, and the constructive comments
around here on misticriver, and it shows in LJMix, I think...

[Voice of Reason]

My new T10 is in the mail, so I'll be able to give your program a whirl next week I hope!

[Lord Julius]

I uploaded a new version with three new features that I really missed after
using it for a while. I hope they'll be useful for others, too:

- Option to avoid copying files that are already on the target
- Option to switch off tag scanning -> much better performance
- Album folders are prefixed with artist name, if tag info is available

[Kamakzie1976]

This is only for UMS version?

[Lord Julius]

Don't know, I never tried the MTP version. Can you see your player as a
drive on the computer when it's connected? If yes, you can try and copy
files over. If not, bad luck. The tool was written for, and tested on, UMS.

[Kamakzie1976]

Yeah it does show up but it remains greyed out in the little app when I cliick on it. Oh well...