Mr. Random is a utility useful
for filling a portable MP3 audio player with music randomly selected from a
larger collection situated on a computer hard drive. This is a good idea if
you can't make up your mind what you want to hear, you prefer to be surprised
by a selection of music you may not have heard in a while, or want to hear
familiar music juxtaposed in novel combinations.
Mr. Randomis a Java
application, so it can be run on any computer with a Java Runtime Environment
version 6.0. It is also allows the look and feel to be changed by
selecting different themes.
Mr. Random User Interface with a
Mac theme
- Upcoming Release
A new release is almost ready to go. The major new
feature is the cover browser. If you have saved a CD cover image
in each file directory, you can browse through them and select random
tunes by clicking on the cover image, just like flipping through the actual
CD cases. Here is a video of the browser in action.
Other than that there is a new (modal) progress dialog that
won't get hidden behind the main window, option for numbering tracks on
the device (for those players who like to impose alphabetical order and don't
respect playlists), and some bug fixes.
- Released May 10, 2007: Mr. Random 1.4
- Java Version 6.0 is required
- List fills as tunes are picked
- Status bar shows messages, list size and device free space / total space
- Can export list as a playlist file to play in your desktop media player (Amarok, Winamp, QCD,...)
- Detects device size (new feature in Java 6) so you don't have to guess
- 10 new themes
- Tooltips containing artist, album and optionally, cover art
- Checking for new versions done in the background, so you don't have to
wait for a connection during startup
- All buttons disabled while copying to avoid funny business
- Released Nov 24, 2006: Mr. Random 1.3
- Upgraded to Java Version 5.0
- Copy button disabled while copying to avoid multiple
simultaneous copying
- new device: Sansa m200 which supports a different format
of playlist file
- Advanced option dialog
- Choice of four different randomization techniques
- Choose number of attempts to find a tune before giving up
- Automatic new version checking
- Submit chosen tunes to Last.fm music tracker
- increase device limit to 20GB
- Italian translation
- Released Mar 10, 2006: Mr. Random 1.2
- Add entire albums or artist collections at once
- History reporting
- Repackaged into a single file
- Released Oct 30, 2005: Mr. Random 1.1
- Support for WMA, OGG and WAV files
- Allows multiple source directories
- Batch operation using -fast command line option
- Creates a playlist file (mr.random.m3u) and will only delete files in
the playlist when 'Clear Device' is selected
- New splash screen
- Released June 26, 2005: Mr. Random 1.0.2
- Support added for Dutch
- File copy time reduced up to 40%
- Copied files numbered sequentially
- Playlist can be reordered
- Released April 17, 2005: Mr. Random 1.0.1
- Support added for selecting languages
- Released April 3, 2005: Mr. Random 1.0
- Mr. Random 1.4 (HTTP)
- Sourceforge.net
Known Bugs
The current list of known bugs, along with their status.
- Copy random tune from specific album didn't work (fixed in 1.4)
