Hitter,
Pick like 5 songs. For example:
Original Playlist
- Carlos Santana - Red Prophet
- Carlos Santana - Agua Que Va Caer
- Carlos Santana - Make Somebody Happy
- Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Carlos Santana - Milagro
Say I am listening to Red Prophet, and remember I love #2, Agua Que Va Caer, I want to hear it 2 times
(back to back), then Free All People. In winamp, the order in the Playlist (what shows in Now Playing)
does not change just the
order of the songs played, we cannot see this order in the Now Playing list. So after the
queue'd songs no longer in the que, aka the played, the next song that plays, is whatever next from The Now Playing list will alter slightly, by placing numbers before the song length. In this example, Agua Que Va Caer will have a [1^] next to it (1 meaning it is the first played song after the current song is done, the ^ means this song will play
x number of times), Free All People will have [3] (third song that plays after the current song). The values in the [ ] change as it goes to the next song. The order played is outlined below:
Order Played
- Carlos Santana - Red Prophet
- Carlos Santana - Agua Que Va Caer
- Carlos Santana - Agua Que Va Caer
- Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Carlos Santana - Make Somebody Happy
- Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Carlos Santana - Milagro
-- at this point it will loop to the top of the list, and play in the original order (Red Prophet, Aqua Que, Make Somebody , Free All, Milagro) till I hit stop.
To get this order I do, while Red Prophet playing:
- select Carlos Santana - Agua Que Va Caer
- Hit "Q" twice
- Select Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Hit "Q" once
In MM currently, using the Play Next command, if I want the same behavior my
Original Playlist changes. Therefore essentially stuck with:
(New Now Playing Playlist)
- Carlos Santana - Red Prophet
- Carlos Santana - Agua Que Va Caer
- Carlos Santana - Agua Que Va Caer
- Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Carlos Santana - Make Somebody Happy
- Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Carlos Santana - Milagro
unless I go through and edit the
New Now Playing Playlist,
before Red Prophet
(song 1) plays for the second time due to looping/continuous play. Not to mention, to get the play order I have to (again while Red Prophet plays):
- Select Carlos Santana - Augua Que Va Caer
- Hit Play Next
- Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Hit Play Next
- Select Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa)
- Move Carlos Santana - Free All The People (South Africa) under Carlos Santana - Augua Que Va Caer, because Play Now will put it under Red Prophet
...which is a lot more work.
Does this clear it up? if not tell me where I can explain better. Somebody may think,
why would you want to queue songs? Well, say you got a new cd (7tracks long), while you listen to cd's all the way through, track 1 is the new hit and want to listen to it 5 times. On a CD player and in MM you either have to hit back after its done and it switches to track 2 (or in the case of MM add it to now playing 4 more times). On a cd player after track 7 you will hear track 1 then 2, but in MM, by default, you will hear track 1 five times. In the meantime in Winamp, you add all the tracks
once and tell winamp to play track one 5 times by queue-ing it. When you hit track 7, you hear tracks 1-7 without having to adjust it.