Auto Playlist: random order not random

[psychoadept]

This auto playlist is set to random shuffle, but many tracks are still clustering into groups by album or artist.  They are not tracks which are linked for playback.  If there's an underlying pattern, I haven't been able to find it.

[Steven]

I cannot reproduce this so could you send me your settings file and also the .xautopf file for the playlist in question?

[psychoadept]

Done!

[Steven]

thats fixed for the next update. You would need to refresh the files so a new snap is saved

[Steven]

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

[psychoadept]

That looks much more random, thank you!

I'm not sure it's still respecting the "least often played" setting?  Play counts range all the way from 0 to 16, and when I try to sort by Play Count, the numbers are still all mixed up.

[Steven]

I'm not sure it's still respecting the "least often played" setting?  Play counts range all the way from 0 to 16, and when I try to sort by Play Count, the numbers are still all mixed up.

yes that does appear to be case - the new sorting algorithm for playcount is fixed for the next update

[Steven]

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

[psychoadept]

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

Now the play count looks good!

I hate to not be done with this, but it looks like it's not respecting the "keep tracks in order when shuffling" setting now.  I just went back through to make sure everything's set as it should be, and they're still being separated.

[Steven]

I hate to not be done with this, but it looks like it's not respecting the "keep tracks in order when shuffling" setting now.  I just went back through to make sure everything's set as it should be, and they're still being separated.

not sure whats going on as MB is executing the code to keep the tracks in sequence and i have tested this several times now and working fine for me. Its not because they are getting sorted out of order in the main panel?

[Steven]

just in case you arent using the same version i am testing with:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

[psychoadept]

Thanks.  I'll give it another shot this evening.

[psychoadept]

No, still not working, sorry.  I have a screenshot if you want, but I'm not sure what more it would tell you.  When I have the playlist in "Manual Order" it always separates the tracks, even though the whole album is in the playlist.

[Steven]

does it still happen if you re-enable automatic refresh ?

[psychoadept]

does it still happen if you re-enable automatic refresh ?

Nope, that fixes it!