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Thg6276:
Thank you to both of you for your precious help

wburkett:
Maybe this is a silly question, but why isn't "random album" a natural switch or function of the Shuffle capability?  Mediamonkey has the same failing.  It seems like this is such an obvious end-user requirement and I can't understand why we have to jump through hoops to get the capability.  Is it really that hard to implement?  Or is it just "we don't want to be like iTunes"?

Bill

blgentry:
I think it's more JRiver's philosophy of building tools that let you browse, sort, and search in (almost) any way that YOU want to.  Trying to anticipate the desires of everyone is both extremely difficult, and prone to cluttering the interface with special modes and switches that just don't work for everyone.

MC includes just enough for most people, who aren't picky, to get what they want without a lot of effort.  Beyond that, you can search, sort, and browse almost any way you want, by using smartlists and views.  Feel the power.  :)

BTW, I build a View based on this thread.  I just used the rule in my post above as the "include files for display" in my view.  I set it up as a Panes view.  So I can filter by Year, Genre, or Artist, and get random albums.  Or just get random albums from my whole collection.  It's not something I personally like to use much, but I can see why someone would want it.

EDIT:  As usual a picture is worth 1000 words, so see the attached screen shot.

Brian.

walrus:
Apologies for digging up this old thread, but I found it via google.

So I basically want to reproduce the Subsonic homepage, with a panel of random albums, I've got the view down the way I want it, but 'refreshing' the list doesn't seem to be working...it's basically showing me different combinations of the same small set of albums, instead of randomly pulling from the hundreds in my library. What part of the equation am I missing? I'm basing it off of ferday's code, except showing a dozen albums instead of one. But it's just giving me the same few LP's every time.

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