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[jimclark]

I like to listen to entire albums, rather than individual songs in a random fashion. I can do this easily with my EMPEG MP3 player for my car because it used in hierarchical lists. However, this capability eludes MC. This would require some interesting sorting options, like randomly sorting by album, but grouping the album tracks together. How about it guys?

Jim Clark

[Phil Lee]

This can be done already using 2 smartlists. First create a smartlist called "20 Random Albums Track 1" with the following query:

Media Type:Audio Track #: =1 Limit: 20 tracks Sort: [Random]

Next, create a smartlist called "20 Random Albums" with the following query:

Playlist: 20 Random Albums Track 1 Modifier: Full Albums

and play the second smartlist. You can change the number of albums by changing the Limit value in the first smartlist.

[jimclark]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I didn't work because when you select the second playlist, MC resorts the list and the random order of the albums is lost. Can MC's sorting be switched off on the second list?

Jim

[Phil Lee]

Remove the Random option from the first smartlist, that should sort things out.

[jleerigby]

You don't need 2 smartlists to do this.  Try 1 smartlist like this:

[Media Type]=[Audio] [Track #]==1 ~n=20 ~a

[dragyn]

I tried this and MC can't handle albums with different file types. It groups the tracks together 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, etc.

It needs to be able to sort the list while retaining the full albums or it needs to be able to handle different file types when it adds the files.