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[margolbe]

I have a number of smartlists for classical music and jazz.  Since each of these contains many albums, and I am tired of always hearing the albums in the same order, it would be nice if I could randomize playback within each smartlist by album.

Is this possible?  If so, how do I do this?

[Matt]

Limit to track #1.

Shuffle.

Expand to albums.

[margolbe]

Matt;

How do you expand this to albums.  Will this maintain the integrity of each album in the randomization?

[6233638]

Here's a quick example of a smart list which will play full albums in a random order.

If you want it to be "less random" to avoid repeats, you could add rules which include "Last Played/Skipped is not in the last 1 hour" for example.

[margolbe]

I tried this, substituting Publisher for Genre.  However, after it plays 1 track, rather than playing the full album it skips to track 1 of another random album.

What am I doing wrong?

[wig]

See if this works for you (be sure to fill in the Publisher field, I forgot)

[6233638]

I tried this, substituting Publisher for Genre.  However, after it plays 1 track, rather than playing the full album it skips to track 1 of another random album.

What am I doing wrong?

Did you add the correct modifiers at the bottom?

[margolbe]

I tried this and instead of playing the full album, it skipped to a different album, track 13.

Ideally, I'd like to create a list of albums by a publisher (i.e., ECM), and would like to play back each album in the list in a new random order each time I start the list.  I would like to preserve each album, play all the tracks in the album, and then randomly skip to a new album, play all the tracks, etc.  Is this possible?

[6233638]

Try pasting this code into the Import/Export section of the Edit Smartlist dialog:

Code: [Select]

[Media Sub Type]=[Music] [Genre]="Jazz" [Track #]=1 ~sort=Random ~a
You can modify it later, but see if that works first.