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Support => Questions => Topic started by: Dalinar on December 12, 2022, 03:01:40 PM

Title: Random listening to albums
Post by: Dalinar on December 12, 2022, 03:01:40 PM

I'm sorry I forgot what these tabs are called at the top of program, they are like pages. Anyhow I'll call them a page. They contain music. For example I have some that are dedicated just to certain bands.

I'm wondering, is there a way to choose a random album to listen to just from one of these pages?

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: karbock on December 12, 2022, 04:09:11 PM

To do so, you can create an auto-playlist with the following criteria:

RULES:
* Album - has a value

[v] limit to - 1 - album - selected by - random
...
selected by - album

[v] automatically refresh the matching tracks

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: Dalinar on December 13, 2022, 03:21:25 PM

thanks, that's pretty cool

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: Dalinar on December 13, 2022, 04:48:51 PM

I just tried it and it only showed 1 song.. so edited the auto playlist and saw that "item" was selected and changed that to "album".

However, it still only shows 1 song.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: karbock on December 13, 2022, 05:30:53 PM

This is the screenshot of the playlist parameters (works as a charm on my computer):
click to display (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MbHc8I_u-HVMnKFNcfi_ms49N3zlbw97/view?usp=share_link)

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: Dalinar on December 14, 2022, 12:31:40 PM

thanks! the key was "select by album", I didn't see that before and interpreted when you first wrote selected by album to mean to set "has a value" to "Album"

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: Dalinar on December 15, 2022, 03:01:36 PM

now my next problem - sometimes I see a cool random album pop up (actually I listen to live shows and I have zillions - but for all intents and purposes they are "albums") and I might want to listen to it later.

What would be the best way to save it for later? Add it to some kind of playlist I guess? What's the best way to do that?

Title: Re: Random listening to albums
Post by: karbock on December 17, 2022, 05:19:23 PM

Indeed, the best way is to add the tracks to a regular playlist:
* Select the tracks
* Right click -> Include in playlist -> ...

You can also append the tracks to your 'Now Playing' list:
* Select
* Right click -> Queue last
(You can assign custom hotkeys to Queue Next/Last via Preferences -> Hotkeys, if needed.)