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View Poll Results: Do you use your Kindle to listen to music? | |||
Yeah! All the time. | 31 | 31.31% | |
Only when my actual music player dies | 19 | 19.19% | |
No. It's too undeveloped | 49 | 49.49% | |
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12-26-2010, 10:53 PM | #1 |
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Kindle Music Shuffler
Hi Guys,
I'm here to present to share my Kindle Music Shuffler with you guys. Please note that nearly all of the code is based off of the Screensaver Hack Randomization algorithm. Prerequisites: - Jailbreak - Launchpad To install it, create a folder in /mnt/us called musicshuffle. Place the "shuffle" and "sort" executables (located in the attached archive) in that folder. Now, to use it, just add an entry to launchpad to run the shuffle script: M S = !/mnt/us/musicshuffle/shuffle Then, next time you want to shuffle your music, simply run that command, and it will shuffle all of your music. ~ Kranu Let me know if you encounter problems with this, I will try to weed them out, although I'm pretty bad at shell scripting. Last edited by kranu; 12-26-2010 at 10:56 PM. Reason: added prerequisites |
12-27-2010, 12:19 AM | #2 |
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I guess the type of music I listen to is not suited for shuffling - classical. I would certainly like more control of what I hear without having to constantly access the music folder from a pc.
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12-27-2010, 12:28 AM | #3 |
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12-27-2010, 12:40 AM | #4 | |
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I've tried making a music player with the KDK, but I'm so bad at Java that I can't even figure out how to make a button react. Before I bought my Kindle, one of the things that I imagined was a iPod like system where I could pick my music and put it in a playlist with shuffle and what not. I was vastly disappointed when I figured out that it can't even shuffle (well, until this). |
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12-27-2010, 09:45 AM | #5 |
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Your skills at programming this thing are way better than mine. I was Cobol in the 1970's! Since the k3 is not a cellphone (yet) I can supply my music from my Blackberry if need be. But it would be nice to have more music control of the k3. Thanks for your early efforts and here's hoping you can go further.
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12-29-2010, 08:56 PM | #6 |
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I'm not ready to jailbreak, but this post gave me some ideas. It would be fairly easy (given my skill-set, anyway) to automatically, whenever the K3 is connected to the PC, exchange the music on the device for a more or less random selection from the larger number of MP3 tracks that are sitting in folders on my PC. As someone mentioned, I don't want it to be purely random since the order of classical music movements should be preserved. I'll have to think about how random it should be.
I'm presuming that when you copy MP3's, by code, from the PC, they will then play on the Kindle in that order, just as when you copy them manually. But this will have to be tested unless someone already knows. How does the Kindle know what order to play the tracks? Can you access this from MS Windows? As for answering the poll, I would say that I read with Kindle background music on about a fifth of the time. The 44 Françoise Hardy tracks I now have on my K3 are so awesome that doing this will not be a major priority. |
12-30-2010, 01:22 AM | #7 | |
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03-08-2011, 12:32 AM | #9 |
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03-08-2011, 12:52 AM | #10 |
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11-02-2011, 03:42 PM | #12 |
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hi
this looks like a very cool idea! i have entered all the outlined steps but it doesnt appear to work it says 'success' but the tracks still play in order - even if i run it after a reboot! Thanks Last edited by leonsegal; 11-02-2011 at 03:52 PM. Reason: mistake |
11-05-2011, 02:01 AM | #13 | |
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Try going into your music folder, and looking at the file names. If they have numbers at the beginning, it should be working properly. |
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01-31-2012, 04:46 AM | #14 |
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02-01-2012, 07:20 AM | #15 | |
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However, since installing the Kindle terminal, as I regularly listen to music on K3, I realised that using the terminal is a useful way to control mplayer directly, particularly as it displays mp3 tags, file info' etc. Previously I'd installed fbdev's kinamp, so mplayer was already in the system folder. So, I launch the terminal via a launchpad sequence, then: cd /mnt/us/music & from there: ../system/mplayer -shuffle *.* which seems to work pretty well. All of that can be put in a short script, & aliased to keypresses of your choice. Space pauses play, enter goes to next tune. You can press the left hand < key to go back to Kindle & carry on reading a book, etc.. You also get the hardware volume control working from there, whereas you need keypresses for volume via the terminal. At any time whilst reading, you can launch the terminal again to see current song title, last few played etc.. You can also, by terminal output redirection, collect all the current session's output into a file. so you can see just how random mplayer's shuffle really is Playlists can also be defined if you wish. |
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