Smart Random for music videos?

lotussutol

Is it possible to add a don't play same artist for X amount of time feature for music videos to go along with random?
I would love to see a don't play this artist again for X amount of time.
With my random right now I get a lot of two in a row and even got a three in a row of the same artist and I have around 100 artists and 300 videos. I know it isn't for everyone but for me I would love to be able to say don't play the same artist again for 1 hour.
My setup is simple. 4 random videos and a short MTv bumper over and over.

RSEAMONKEY

Yeah, some sort of Minimum Separation Rules on either Artist or Title would be great.

jason

If you are using classic schedules, you should look at playback order Marathon. From the release notes:

Classic schedules: add playback order Marathon
- This can be used with collections and smart collections
- Items from the collection will be grouped by the Marathon Group By setting: Artist, Album, Season or Show
- The order of groups can optionally be shuffled
- The order of items in each group can optionally be shuffled (otherwise Season, Episode or Chronological as appropriate)
- A batch size can be set to limit the number of items to schedule from each group at a time
  - Empty or zero batch size means play all items from each group before advancing
  - Any other value means play the specified number of items before advancing to the next group

For example, setting Marathon Group By to Artist, shuffling groups and items, with a batch size of 1 would get you the maximum possible separation between artists.