[Feature Request] Sonic Adventure: option to sort tracks to "longest" or "shortest" Adventure

Hello!

I got another enhancement idea for Sonic Adventure.

Right now, there’s no way to adjust the order of tracks that guide the sonic adventure without removing and re-adding them, and when three or more (or an entire album’s worth) of tracks are included in it, the order that these tracks go in make a huge difference in how long or short that sonic adventure will be.

I thought it might be amusing to have a couple buttons or options that can use Plexamp’s Super Sonic knowledge to reorder Sonic Adventures tracks automatically into the longest or shortest possible orders. Maybe a shuffle too, for the fun of it! Could be useful for discovering even more new relations between tracks.

I’m not quite sure I understand your suggestion.
Initially I thought you’re asking for an option control the length of the “adventure” between the individual selected tracks… but while re-reading your post I’m ending up being more and more confused… but maybe that’s just me. :wink:
The sonic adventure part between tracks is kind of a path – if you start re-ordering or even shuffling it, it’s no longer a path but a bunch of disconnected points on a map.

Well, the songs you choose in sonic adventure are the points the path is derived from, and the order to which these points are chosen effects the adventure length significantly!

Let’s say I have an Adventure with Song A, B and C. A and B are extremely similar, and C is an outlier but B’s closer to it than A.

The shortest, most efficient adventure would be A>B>C or C>B>A. The longest in this hypothetical would be more like A>C>B or something.

Now take an adventure that’s got 20+ songs guiding it! In a sense what I’m asking for is a shortcut to sort this list by most or least similar to its neighboring points in the Adventure menu. Basically to see what order ends up with the most or fewest additional songs.

I hope that makes a little more sense!

So basically you want an option to have some kind of “navigation software” / route planner for your sonic adventure to re-arrange the selected tracks to produce longer or shorter adventures?

Basically yes! That’s the core of my idea. I understand it’s a silly one, effectively giving the Sonic Adventure a “GPS” of sorts.

I still think the difference between longest or shortest journey between, say, an entire album or soundtrack would be a really interesting listen!