Radio random playing functionality

Clozemaster
#1

Hi @mike, I love the radio functionality and I use it with various configurations.
I recently watched the following video:

In a nutshell, the guy talks about listening repeatedly to a set of 2,000 sentences in order to learn
90% of the language while reading and saying them using a Google Sheet that includes all of the sentences, and in the rest of the time just listening to the sentences in the background for more exposure.
This method provides a massive exposure to a lot of vocabulary in a short amount of time (~1 hour for 1000 sentences).
While this requires compiling an audio file of the sentences and a Google Sheet in the target language, Clozemaster actually has a great solution for this - using the new Fast Track with the radio functionality!
By simply putting either the sentence or the “slow” version and actively reading the sentence from the screen (the AI images also help a lot) I can implement this method hassle free.

The only problem I’ve been facing is:
Clozemaster plays the sentences randomly, and it plays some sentences multiple times before going through all the sentences in the collection, so it’s hard to keep track which sentences I’ve already listened to, and if I close the radio to do something else I start from scratch.

Possible solutions for this are:

  1. Adding a toggle button for the random playing mode.
  2. Adding the option to set which sentences I want to listen to (by numbers, e.g. 1-200).
  3. To create sub-collections of ~100 sentences - this will make it easier to keep track.

No. 1 & 2 is something Clozemaster can implement.
I tried to create a new sub-collection from the Fast Track first collection but didn’t find a way to do this.

@mike what do you think? Do you have plans add more controls to radio mode?

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#2

I wholeheartedly agree that Clozemaster Radio has a lot of potential if more controls are added, along the lines of what you’re suggesting. And the “random” selection of sentences is erratic, as I’ve reported earlier.

I would like the buttons to be bigger and centered mid-screen, and there should be a button to go directly to viewing/editing the current cloze without having to go through the history (which doesn’t include the current cloze). BTW, The history view bugs out at about 120 sentences, forever scrolling up and down.

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#3

I completely agree, including the history view.
I need to keep scrolling again and again in order to get a glimpse at the number of the last sentence in order to get an idea how many sentences I’ve covered so far.
Adding more controls will help the radio mode serve many more purposes than just listening to it in the background.

BTW @mike , the AI image generation feature is genius and should be available for the game mode as well, not just radio mode.

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