Anybody up for this challange..!?
Here's the story:
...however I miss one functionality a lot. A shuffle/ramdomize option for "sorting" files.
For what use you might ask: Well, for copying/moving files to mp3 players. Most of the physically small mp3-players, does not have a built in shuffle/randomize function, so the files are played in the order they are written to the mp3-player.
I have tried to use the "unsorted" option, but that does not do the trick sufficiently good. Also there's no plug-in available which can do it (not one I've found anyway)
So, it would be a great thing to have a plug-in available on the web-site for this.
Reply for TotalCmd guys:
<That's an interesting idea! You may indeed ask in our plugins forum whether anyone could write a random number content plugin. It would show a random number in a custom column, so you could then sort by that column. Should be quite easy to develop...>
For this to work, the files must be written to the destination in the order they are listed after shuffling/randomizing.
Anyone who can help?
LAN
File list shuffler / Randomizer
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Clas Hortien
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I installed it twice from two different locations and one wasn't valid anymore.icfu wrote:I just experienced the same but the problem was that I moved the misc folder. Maybe you did the same by accident.
But when i now randomize my directory not all files are shown (only ~15 upto ~30 files in the TC directory, but it contains 42 files). When i leave and reenter the directory the shown files and the amount of files differ from time to time, but all files are never shown
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Now I have tried the plugin on my mp3-files backwards and forwards, reentered the directory, sort by name, then by random. No matter how I do it, I end up with a lot of songs from the same artist. I dont think a yes/no tag is enough to make a file list sufficiently random. Much more randomness (is that an actual word ...) is needed.
For comparison, a good randomizer can be found in winamp. With a plugin in winamp it's possible to copy the listed (and random) files to another drive (lika a mp3 player). But it's only possible to copy, not to move. So in order to move the files, the original files have to be marked and deleted via TotalCmd's window compare.
For comparison, a good randomizer can be found in winamp. With a plugin in winamp it's possible to copy the listed (and random) files to another drive (lika a mp3 player). But it's only possible to copy, not to move. So in order to move the files, the original files have to be marked and deleted via TotalCmd's window compare.
You chose the the odd field. You need to chosse the random field.One question: When I use the plugin, I get yes/no tags in the "random column". Every second file gets a "yes". The same file gets the same tag, so the sort order is the same every time. How can I use the plugin to make the file list random?
Refresh should be enough.You have to reenter the directory to renew the sort order.
2Lan
www.lefteous.de/tc/archives/misc/misc_1.02.zip
Enough randomness?
2Lan
Thank you!
If you want to make a "blind" copy/move try the following:
Define a predefined selection (Show/Custom, Define or press Ctrl+F12 and Define).
In this dialog select the plugin tab. Add the following rules:
Plugin: misc Property: Random OP: > Value: 5000
Plugin: misc Property: Random OP: < Value: 20000
The larger the range between the two rules the more files we be copied. The highest possible value here is 32767.
Now save the predefined selection: "My random selection"
To use this predefined selection for copying/moving call the corresponding dialog and select your pedefined selection from the "Only files of this type" list (the predefined selections can be found at the very bottom of the list).
Surprise!
Thank you!
If you want to make a "blind" copy/move try the following:
Define a predefined selection (Show/Custom, Define or press Ctrl+F12 and Define).
In this dialog select the plugin tab. Add the following rules:
Plugin: misc Property: Random OP: > Value: 5000
Plugin: misc Property: Random OP: < Value: 20000
The larger the range between the two rules the more files we be copied. The highest possible value here is 32767.
Now save the predefined selection: "My random selection"
To use this predefined selection for copying/moving call the corresponding dialog and select your pedefined selection from the "Only files of this type" list (the predefined selections can be found at the very bottom of the list).
Surprise!
2 Lefteous
The "blind" selcetion works fine.
The Randomizer does it's job well. However, when using it I have noticed a little cosmetic detail. If you want to sort according to the random-number (don't know why anyone want to do it, but nevertheless...), you have to select another directory and return to get the column sorted correctly. Refresh does not work in this case and neither does several click on the random column. Well, that's not quit true, sometines it works
Perhaps it has something to do with the number of files.
Again, the plugin work fine -> it does what it's born to do.
LAN
The "blind" selcetion works fine.
The Randomizer does it's job well. However, when using it I have noticed a little cosmetic detail. If you want to sort according to the random-number (don't know why anyone want to do it, but nevertheless...), you have to select another directory and return to get the column sorted correctly. Refresh does not work in this case and neither does several click on the random column. Well, that's not quit true, sometines it works
Perhaps it has something to do with the number of files.Again, the plugin work fine -> it does what it's born to do.
LAN