Server Side

Actions:
serveMP3
downloadfile
dir
phpinfo
feedPlaylist
getCoverart
podcast

Directives:
wimpyConfigFile
media_types
wimpy_auth
getMyid3info
ecommerce
ecomWindow
useMysql
defaultVisualBaseName
defaultVisualExt
hide_folders
hide_files
startDir
getid3libPath
httpOption
blockPHPinfo

Client Side

wimpyApp
wimpySkin
startPlayingOnload
randomOnLoad
shuffleOnLoad
displayDownloadButton
autoAdvance
popUpHelp
forceDownload
startOnTrack
trackPlays
voteScript
getMyid3info
forceXMLplaylist
useSysCodePage
ecommerce
ecomWindow
useMysql
scrollInfoDisplay
infoDisplayTime
bufferAudio
theVolume
defaultImage
loopPlaylist
limitPlaytime
startupLogo

HTML display

wimpySkin
wimpySwf
bkgdColor
tptBkgd
wimpyHTMLpageTitle
useSysCodePage

shuffleOnLoad

shuffleOnLoad -- Shuffles the playlist

Usage

wimpy.swf?shuffleOnLoad=yes

Parameters

yes
no

This option defaults to "no"
You can either explicitly set this option to "yes" or "no" or simply do not include this option when loading the player and Wimpy will use the "default" value.

Description

Shuffles the list of files in the playlist when the player launches. and sets the default state of the shuffle button to "on."

Overall we feel that "shuffle" is a little more elegant  that "jumping" to a random item.

The concept of "shuffle" is the same as the concept of "random selection." The concept of "randomly selecting the next file" when a file is finished playing would cause the player to "jump" to some randomly selected item in the playlist. Whereas if the playlist is "shuffled," when a file is finished playing it simply goes to the next item in the playlist, and since the playlist items are "shuffled" the same effect is achieved without causing the highlight in the playlist to "jump" out of view, or scroll to a new position.

If there are only a few items in the playlist, this option may seem to "not work" -- the reason for this is because there are too few items in the list. Since "shuffle" is based on a concept of randomizing the entire list of files in the playlist,  when only a few items are in the playlist, chances are very high that the random order automatically derived will be the same after any number of "shuffles."

See Also:

randomOnLoad

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