well following frankz suggestions, the best I could figure out to do what I wanted was to get it to sort of work.
v1it shows 3 random albums however I could not figure out how to restrict it to only one album per artist.
v2it does this correctly:
1. suggests one album from each artist randomly
Refreshing the smart playlist only rearranges the order of the 3 randomly selected albums however.
I can force it to choose 3 random new albums again by opening the edit dialog of the auto playlist and hitting save
So basically I can achieve what I want, however it is a bit cumbersome.
is there any way to refine it to work via refresh?
I guess the solution is ... because it is kind of stupid to have to choose Edit Auto Playlist | Save , each time
is to use v1 but to make it show 21 albums or something large like that to be guaranteed a selection that would contain a mixture of albums from each artist on each refersh
v1
v2
actually I was in general quite happy to have 3 different auto playlists, 1 per artist. However the problem was they weren't easy to access since I would need to get to the playlist explorer each time. I would prefer to use a tab header but I don't want to waste 3 spots as my tab headers are already quite crowded, that is why I wanted to combine it to one playlist. so I would have one Random Album Tab