Foobar vs JRiver on Random Play

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Devlon
Devlon Posts: 355
edited January 2014 in Going Digital
I am a foobar user, but I have a question for you J River guys. My metadata file is at the bottom each song list. The only problem I have with foobar is that when I choose "random" play, it inevitably tries to play this file and that stops the music. Foobar is not reading this file as a music file, of course, and this stops the sound. I wished foobar knew to skip over this file on "random" play. Just curious how J River works when "random" play is selected?
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  • Devlon
    Devlon Posts: 355
    edited January 2014
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    Can anybody here answer this?
    Living Room: HK AVR 354 as pre/pro, 2 x Polk Audio Micropro 4000, Adcom GFA-7500, 2 x Mirage OMD-15
    2 x Mirage OMD-5, 1 x Mirage OMD-C1, APC H15, Sony S790, Philips 52" LCD, Beogram 3000, FAT (Firestone Audio Tobby DAC), Harmony One

    Den: Sherwood R-972,as pre/pro, 2 x Velodyne SPL-1000R, 3 x Crown Drivecore XLS1500, 2 x Polk Audio Lsi9
    1 x Polk Audio Lsic, 2 x Polk Audio Lsifx, Sony S790, APC H15, Dspeaker Dual Core 2.0, W4S DAC 2, Keces DA-151
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,132
    edited January 2014
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    I don't see random play in J River. You can add music by songs or entire albums to "playing now" list. I have never had it stop. Shuffled the list several times still keeps on ticking.

    Hope that helps
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2014
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    I've never had JRiver attempt to play a meta data file before.

    FWIW, I don't think JRiver has a traditional "random play" option, but it does have a "Play Doctor" setting that picks random tracks based on parameters that you assign.
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  • Devlon
    Devlon Posts: 355
    edited January 2014
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    Ok everybody, thanks for the input. I just found out that foobar has a feature called "exclude file". The metadata file is a jpeg file soyou can tell foobar to exclude all jpeg files. Works like a charm. I think that you can also use the "exclude file" feature to exclude certain tracks during songlist playback without erasing them. Random play is a feature I do like when the song list becomes too predictable.
    Living Room: HK AVR 354 as pre/pro, 2 x Polk Audio Micropro 4000, Adcom GFA-7500, 2 x Mirage OMD-15
    2 x Mirage OMD-5, 1 x Mirage OMD-C1, APC H15, Sony S790, Philips 52" LCD, Beogram 3000, FAT (Firestone Audio Tobby DAC), Harmony One

    Den: Sherwood R-972,as pre/pro, 2 x Velodyne SPL-1000R, 3 x Crown Drivecore XLS1500, 2 x Polk Audio Lsi9
    1 x Polk Audio Lsic, 2 x Polk Audio Lsifx, Sony S790, APC H15, Dspeaker Dual Core 2.0, W4S DAC 2, Keces DA-151
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