Hello, couple of months ago, a very helpful person by the name of Razor2.3 helped me with a batch that when executed, it will look into each folder of my shows, and from those shows randomly choose a video and then continue with the next folder and randomly pick a show and so forth.<\/p>\n
The batch would output an m3u playlist file and all I would have to do is to click the batch X amount of times and generates X amount of m3u playlists and all I would have to do is play that in my Windows media player without having to manually pick each episode for each show. (btw, I am using windows 7 PC).<\/p>\n
The final script was done and it looks like this:<\/p>\n
SET extensionList=avi mp4 mkv
\nSET cnt=0
\n:Loop
\nSET \/A cnt+=1
\nIF EXIST %cnt%.m3u GOTO Loop<\/p>\n
>%cnt%.m3u ECHO.#EXTM3U
\nFOR \/D %%a IN (c:\\somePath\\*) DO CALL :PickFile “%%a”
\nGOTO :EOF<\/p>\n
:PickFile
\nSET searchList=
\nFOR %%b IN (%extensionList%) DO CALL SET searchList=%%searchList%% “%~1\\*.%%b”
\nFOR \/F %%b IN (‘2^>NUL DIR \/A-D-H-S %searchList% ^| FIND “File(s)”‘) DO SET limit=%%b
\nSET \/A fileNum=(%random% %% limit) + 1
\nFOR \/F “tokens=2 delims=:” %%b IN (‘2^>NUL DIR \/A-D-H-S\/B %searchList% ^| FINDSTR \/N “.*” ^| FINDSTR “^%fileNum%:”‘) DO ^
\nCALL :AddList %1 “%%b” >>%cnt%.m3u
\nGOTO :EOF<\/p>\n
:AddList
\n@ECHO.#EXTINF:-1,%~n2
\n@ECHO.%~f1\\%~2
\n@GOTO :EOF<\/p>\n
After weeks of testing, I found out that more often than not, it seems to repeat some episodes of my shows from my last playlist. (I would generate this playlist X amount of times)<\/p>\n
Is there a way to edit this so that I can make sure I don’t see a repeated episode from the last playlist? Or to make it even more random? I hope that makes sense, I can clarify even more on the next post. Thank you~<\/p>\n
BTW, the original post is here (https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/programming\/is-there-a-way-to-play-a-random-video-just-once-in-a-folder\/28683.html#xtor=EPR-2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[55],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-programming"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}