Sequential Shuffle, and Multiple file references?

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Sequential Shuffle, and Multiple file references?

This is two questions actually.

Can you set a pair of songs to only play together when selecting for party shuffle? This would help for songs like North and North 2 by Afro Celtic Sound system, where North 2 continues where North leaves off with no break between them. It sounds strange to have one of them play without the other.

Second question is can you have one file referenced from two different locations in the library. For example, a song called Islands of the Galopagos is both on the Cusco 2000 album, but also in the Best of New Age album. Having it in two locations on disk takes up extra memory, particularly on the space constranied iPod Nano.

Anyways, hope someone can answer these questions. Thanks.

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 12, 2007 7:16 PM

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jere7my

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Apr 12, 2007 8:34 PM in response to Zanthra Shard

This is two questions actually.

Can you set a pair of songs to only play together
when selecting for party shuffle? This would help
for songs like North and North 2 by Afro Celtic Sound
system, where North 2 continues where North leaves
off with no break between them. It sounds strange to
have one of them play without the other.

The solution is to join the tracks into a single track before you import them. There are third-party apps that will do this after they've been imported, but it's easiest to just join and re-import those two songs.

Second question is can you have one file referenced
from two different locations in the library. For
example, a song called Islands of the Galopagos is
both on the Cusco 2000 album, but also in the Best of
New Age album. Having it in two locations on disk
takes up extra memory, particularly on the space
constranied iPod Nano.

The only way I know to do this is with a playlist. I usually just delete songs from "Best Of" CDs when I buy the album that contains them, since there's not much benefit to maintaining the order of the "Best Of" CD in most cases.

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