Deciding randomness of playlist

[borgqueenx]

I love to put vacation and family photos on dislay on my oled tv, while sometimes showing these beautiful 4k videos, but i wish i had some more control over the randomness. For example i have the idea of making the photos play randomly but not allow a single media file to be played again for x amount of days or hours after it has been shown. Or allow me to force show 2 photos from usb drive to then allow a video again...
Just some wild ideas in my head, i just wish for a little more control over the order and get randomness.

Thanks for making this epic app!

[theothernt]

I have been thinking about this a lot as well. Currently, there is no control. It's random/shuffled each time, this doesn't mean you won't see certain video more frequently though.

In future the playlist will be random but persistent. This means that if the playlist is 100 videos, and you only see about 10 per session. In the first session you'll see 1-10, next session will be 11-20 and so on. When you reach 100, a new random playlist is generated. Repeat.

As for the randomness. I have been thinking about the idea that after the shuffle, we can then do things like space the videos out more evenly (if the playlist is mostly photos, for example), or have a rule that there is at least one or two photos in between each video.

[borgqueenx]

I also found some videos i dislike so far, maybe a option to select them for not being shown would be a nice future enhancement. Not really a big deal though 😁
Thanks for thinking with me, those seem like nice improvements!

[xconverge]

I also found some videos i dislike so far, maybe a option to select them for not being shown would be a nice future enhancement. Not really a big deal though 😁 Thanks for thinking with me, those seem like nice improvements!

A different app I used in the past allowed you to arrow down on the remote during one of these, and it would add it to an "ignore" list

You could then view the ignore list in the settings and remove items from it if they were there by accident

[theothernt]

Given the tools I have now, I will probably must make a full UI so you can enable/disable each video.

[xconverge]

Given the tools I have now, I will probably must make a full UI so you can enable/disable each video.

The way I mentioned is pretty nice though because if you have 1000s of items, you don't need to sift through them all to find the one you want to hide/unhide. Both methods/UIs have their own pros and cons

[borgqueenx]

I like the thought of seeing a video and just clicking it away. Just thinking out loud.

[theothernt]

I'll add it to the list anyway!

[theothernt]

Question - would you expect this 'ignore' feature to only work on the built-in video providers like Apple, Amazon, etc ?

[borgqueenx]

Question - would you expect this 'ignore' feature to only work on the built-in video providers like Apple, Amazon, etc ?

Yes, because we are in control of our own media folders.

[theothernt]

Agreed - that's what I was thinking.

[xconverge]

I personally would use it for both, but I understand the reasoning besides not for our own media

Say someone had an immich album, and they don't necessarily want to alter it, but there is an image they dont like/they dont want on their TV, it could be nicer than forcing them to delete/alter the album...

[borgqueenx]

For our own media i would like a feature where we can zoom or move the photo. We could do it on computer as well, but would be nice to see a specific part of a 4:3 photo on a 16:9 tv.

[theothernt]

I personally would use it for both, but I understand the reasoning besides not for our own media

Say someone had an immich album, and they don't necessarily want to alter it, but there is an image they dont like/they dont want on their TV, it could be nicer than forcing them to delete/alter the album...

That's fair. I can easily keep a list of filenames to ignore or not add to the playlist. Being able to edit or see that ignore list might be an issue though. I have found generating thumbnails for photos and videos to be an issue on Android TV - so I'd have to do some research.