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A possibility for choosing the number of random tracks to be played would be to allow a second selection that was made within 5 seconds of the first to determine how many random tracks were to be played from the just selected folder. For example, if you pressed A5 which was set up with a folder of tracks to be played randomly you could then press A6 within 5 seconds of the buttons releasing and that would select 6 tracks to be played from the folder just selected. A5 would play 5 tracks, A0 would play 10 tracks, B5 would play 15 tracks, etc. If nothing was selected within 5 seconds then a default number of tracks, say 10, would be played. If no additional selection was made within 5 seconds then the normal selection process would be resumed. If a selection was made that was not set up for random play then there would be no 5 second delay needed before making an additional selection.
I have good news. If you measure the resistances between the 3.5mm jack and the speaker outputs you will find only very high resistance values. This indicates that the 3.5mm jack is before the output of the internal amplifier. Granted anyone using the internal speaker outputs to drive stock wallbox speakers is not going to benefit from a FLAC file. I use the 3.5mm jack to drive a moderate quality media system with a sub-woofer and I get reasonable quality. No, not the ultimate in HiFi, but much more enjoyable than using the internal amp driving low cost speakers. I think the marketing approach to the newer firmware and hardware should be to expand the market to higher quality and to support more interfaces besides wallboxes. Don’t get me wrong, I love my 5250 and I use it quite often but more support of different interfaces could increase the sales of newer versions of this product and that would be beneficial to the sellers and buyers.
Yet another detail that could make the random selections work better. Non repeating random. If a limited number of selections were allowed for each selection the selections played would be tracked so that the next time that selection was made none of the songs would be repeated. This would require that the random playlist would be saved on the SD disk or on non-volatile memory on the converter. When all of the selections in that folder were played a new true random list would be generated.
Another feature of the random play from folders could be the ability to set the number of songs that would play for each selection. For example you could have 100 songs in a folder and each time you made the selection for that folder 10 songs would play randomly for each time you made that selection. If you wanted 20 of the selections in that folder to play randomly then you would make that selection twice. The number of selections played could be set in a configuration file in the folder containing the selections.
Yes but right now I am not up to taking my wallbox apart. Is it possible to PM other users from the forum?
That will be wonderful! Here is another detail you may consider. Some people will want a specific song playlist order so if a file of song names were found in the target folder the songs would be played in that order. If no playlist is found then the songs in the folder would be played randomly.
What I probably did not make clear is that every selection should be able to play a single song in the root directory or play all of the songs in a folder randomly. As such you could have as many folders as you have selections available. Every selection could be a single song, a collection of songs from a single artist, a genre, or any collection of songs that you wanted to play and each time you played them they would not play in the same order (true random). I currently use a program (such as merge mp3) which merges many MP3 files into a single file which allows me to create a playlist from a single selection. This is nice but adding the random feature without having to merge the files would be much better.
Yes, same problem when I used the recommended 5250 configuration file. My 5250 selections follow the A1, A2, A3, A4 … sequence and work fine with the file name offset. I believe there were other 5250 wall boxes that used a different sequence so there may have to be more file name adjustment with those. My 5250 will take nickels, dimes, quarters, and half dollars.
To make my 5250 work properly I had use a Seeburg configuration file and add an offset to the names of the music files. I started at “sel011.mp3” for A1 and ended at “sel210.mp3” for V0 using “c0s03.cnf” as the configuration file. This is on a 60hz US 5250 although I don’t think the frequency is the issue. The 5250 puts out an extra pulse to be compatible with the Seeburg 200 select WMA causing an offset. The wallbox2mp3 software does not seem decode the 5250 pulses correctly.
