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#187066 - 27/10/2003 16:53 Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
I'm sitting here listening to my empeg on shuffle (Random), and it just played "Summer in the City" by "The Lovin' Spoonful".

Just as the song was getting to the end, I thought about digging out my remote, or firing up emplode, so that I could follow it with "Summer in the Studio", Kinobe's chilled out cover of the same song. In the end, I couldn't be bothered -- too much hassle.

No need: the empeg had already queued it up as the next track.

Spooky.
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#187067 - 27/10/2003 17:24 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Roger]
PaulWay
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Registered: 03/08/1999
Posts: 451
Loc: Canberra, Australia
Yes; it's done that to me too. This is an effect of having all the music you love instantly accessible, of course.

It reminds me of an idea I had a while back where you could press a button on the remote (e.g "Mark" thrice in quick succession) and then enter a number between 1 and 9, and the empeg would remember that as your liking for the link between the previous song and the current. This would combine with a random setting that would favour progressions of songs of which you liked the linking. (That sentence doesn't look right, but I've tried and failed to rephrase it - do you get what I mean?) You could also set this in emplode so that you could tell the empeg that you always preferred to link together an album like Dark Side Of The Moon (set join preference 9 on all but the last song).

When is the 'times skipped' number going to be implemented? Or is it working in 3.0 and I just haven't been brave enough to upgrade from 2.0? My plan is to weed out the songs I don't like by deliberately skipping over them, and then finding the songs I consistently skip over and permanently delete them. I don't yet know enough about programming the shuffle settings in the config.ini to know how to make it prefer songs that I haven't skipped over, though...

Just thinking the thoughts,

Paul
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#187068 - 27/10/2003 17:24 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Roger]
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

I know that feeling. I have had that happen a few times.

That is how I know that my player is trying to make me insane. Otherwise why would it play a rather quick rock tune (think Iron Maiden) followed immediately by an ultra-mellow folk ditty (think Peter Paul & Mary).
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#187069 - 27/10/2003 17:27 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Roger]
JeffS
carpal tunnel

Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
Yup, that's happened to me many times. Thought it was a feature though . . .;)
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#187070 - 27/10/2003 17:38 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: JeffS]
mrfixit
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Registered: 14/06/2002
Posts: 337
Same thing has happend to me too. I think it does have a mind reading feature, we were just not to about it
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#187071 - 27/10/2003 20:23 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Roger]
Ezekiel
pooh-bah

Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
My empeg loves me, don't you Christine?

I dropped her once, but the next morning she was good as new.

-Zeke
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#187072 - 27/10/2003 21:17 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: mrfixit]
muzza
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Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
I thought it was standard!
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#187073 - 30/10/2003 19:43 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Roger]
Ezekiel
pooh-bah

Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
I think my empeg was telling me to slow down with this evening's random selection (in order):

Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews
Maryville Breakdown - (A bluegrass group I never knew)
Everything is Broken - Bob Dylan
Mustang Sally/GTO - John Lee Hooker

Perhaps it's the northern lights.

-Zeke
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#187074 - 31/10/2003 16:28 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Ezekiel]
Skunk
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Registered: 26/08/2003
Posts: 525
Loc: California
Even freakier,
Just uploading an album that has been freshly ripped, played in random, and then the empeg playing all the hit or your favorite songs first!!!
It blows my mind every time!!!
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#187075 - 31/10/2003 20:17 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Skunk]
Narkotic
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Registered: 20/02/2002
Posts: 158
funny you say that, mine does that too..

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#187076 - 01/11/2003 11:30 Re: Freaky: empeg beginning to read my mind [Re: Narkotic]
FireFox31
pooh-bah

Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
My empeg sometimes managed to play a song then, next, play a cover of that song by someone else. Or, when I listen to my Jazz genre on random, it has paired up the same tune done by different artists. My empeg clearly knows I love the comparison of tunes like that. ;^)
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