What's the "Give priority to..." setting in Random Play ?

The "Give priority to..." setting allows for a more "fair" selection of tracks.

Assume you have a huge favorite list that you occasionally play tracks from on a random basis.
You can now set up a "priority criteria" for random selection of tracks from that list, if you want to have some kind of rotation enabled when you listen to music from that particular list.


Basically, you can set the "Give priority to..." to one of five settings, as follows:

- No priority (the default selection: three -'s) -> Do as usual / no priority.
- "Least played tracks" -> Give priority to tracks that have not been played "many times" (compared to other tracks in the same list).
- "Most played tracks" -> The opposite: A track that has been played often (compared to other tracks in the same list) is more likely to be played.
- "Tracks not played recently" -> A track that has been played "some time ago" (compared to other tracks in the same list) is more likely to be played.
- "Tracks played recently" -> The later (compared to other tracks in the same list) a given track has been played, the more likely it will be picked again.


So you can actually apply a kind of rotation for huge favorite lists (or your entire music collection), based on one of the four criteries mentioned above.


The last setting ("Also use this setting...") will only show if you have enabled "Automatic play" within your personal settings.
If checked, the same "priority criteria" will be used for the "Automatic play".

12-07-2010