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millertivo

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Random smartlists
« on: June 15, 2003, 08:21:15 pm »
My random smartlists don't seem so random.

Here is an example of my smartlist: [media type]=[audio] ~t=120 ~sort=random -[Filename]=:// [Genre]=[Rock]

Most of my 1,200+ collection is tagged "Rock."  In the resulting list it seems I always have back-to-back entries of the same artist or same album.  For example, in the smartlist results that just came up songs 2 & 3 are by "Live" from the same album even though I only have 2 albums in my collection by that group.  4 songs are by Bruce Springsteen and 2 are back-to-back from his "Greatest Hits" album.  Likewise I have 2 songs appearing back-to-back from the same Dave Matthews Band album.  All this in a supposedly random selection of 25 songs from a 1,200+ database.  And I have very few songs by those same artists.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?  I can live with one artists appearing multiple times in a 2 hours smartlist, but I at least wish they weren't back-to-back.  Is this just the luck of the draw?
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Re: Random smartlists
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2003, 09:27:30 pm »
Are they still that way when they get to "Now Playing"?  I think that it gets randomized when it gets added...
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Re: Random smartlists
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2003, 10:19:37 pm »
You're not alone - I've noticed similar behaviour.  Even with almost 6000 tracks to choose from, any "random" smartlist always seems to contain back-to-back selections.
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Re: Random smartlists
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2003, 12:23:32 am »
Yeah Ive noticed this too.  Would be nice if we could have an option to limit to no more than n tracks from  the same artist or album...

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Re: Random smartlists
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2003, 04:33:59 pm »
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Yeah Ive noticed this too.  Would be nice if we could have an option to limit to no more than n tracks from  the same artist or album...

Adam


An option to limit tracks is a great idea.
I thought "Nodup" was going to give us the capability to have one song per artist, but I can't seem to get that to work. It removes all the artist with multiple tracks.
I would like to have a true random smartlist that would randomly pick one track from every artist.  


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