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Thg6276:
Good day,

I am totally newbie with JRiver Media Center.

Could you explain to me how to listen my library by album with random function.

Thanks in advance

ferday:
if you want a random complete album

go to playlists, right click on smartlists>add smartlist

once you've named the new smartlist, right click it and edit smartlist.  when the window comes up, click import/export in the bottom left corner

paste in this (exactly, just copy and paste)


--- Code: ---[Media Type]=[Audio] [Media Sub Type]=[Music] [Complete Album]=1 [Last Played]=>1h [Last Skipped]=>1h ~limit=1,1,[Album],[Album Artist (auto)] ~a ~seq ~sort=Random ~limit=1,-1,[Filename (path)],[Channels] ~sort=[Sequence]
--- End code ---

now every time you use the new smartlist it will choose a new album at random

blgentry:
I think you're asking this:

Play all albums.
Play the albums in song order, 1, 2, 3, etc.
But order the albums randomly, so maybe you get an album from ZZ Top, then Alphaville, then Judas Priest, Queen, etc.

There are a number of ways of doing this, but none of them are a simple setting or switch.  Do you really want to listen to your WHOLE collection this way?  Or would it make more sense to filter it down to a group of artists, or genres, or years, or something, and then randomize *that* by album.

I just built a view in about 60 seconds that randomizes by album, but lets me pick genre, artist, or even specific albums.

Or are you trying to do something else entirely?

Brian.

Thg6276:
Thank you for your answers

Play all albums.
Play the albums in song order, 1, 2, 3, etc.
But order the albums randomly, so maybe you get an album from ZZ Top, then Alphaville, then Judas Priest, Queen, etc.

You are correct, it is just that I want.

blgentry:
Probably the easiest way to do this is to create a new smartlist and apply some rules to it.  You could do it with a view also, which gives you more choices.  But if you want just a simple "play all albums" like we've discussed, a smarlist is the way to go.

Once the smartlist is defined, all you have to do is right click on it and select "Play" and it will add the whole smarlist, in order, to playing now, which should give you what you want.

Just like ferday suggested, after you make your new smartlist, click edit, and then "import/export" at the lower left corner.  Then paste in this definition:


--- Code: ---[Media Type]=[Audio] ~nodup=[Album],[Album Artist /(auto/)] ~sort=Random ~a
--- End code ---

That will give you all of your albums, with the songs in order by album, but the albums randomly ordered.  Press the refresh key at the upper left corner of the smartlist to get a new random album order. Whenever you're satisfied, right click on the list and select Play to play the whole list.

As I said you can have more control over this with a view instead, but this should get you started.

Good luck.

Brian.

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