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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: yonkiman on February 25, 2004, 06:49:46 pm

Title: Randomize Slide Show?
Post by: yonkiman on February 25, 2004, 06:49:46 pm

It's easy enough to get MC to show images from my massive photo library, but it always starts with the first image and goes through them sequentially.  So while I have 2000 images, I only ever see the first 100.  Over and over....

I can't find a setting to randomize this, and I couldn't find it in the FAQ or on this message board.  Is it possible?

Thanks,
Fred

Title: Re:Randomize Slide Show?
Post by: JimH on February 25, 2004, 06:51:30 pm

The shuffle button should work.  Playback of images is identical to playback of music.

Title: Re:Randomize Slide Show?
Post by: Chris Shaw on February 25, 2004, 07:10:10 pm

if you want this regularly, you can create a Smartlist with the query
[Media Type]=[Image] ~sort=[Random]

I use one like this that plays all my photos with mellow music
[Media Type]=[Image] or ([Media Type]=[Audio] [Mood]=[Mellow]) ~sort=[Random]
where Mood is my own custom field.

On a related note, I'm trying to create a playlist that has all my photos in date order, and some music in random order. I've tried
([Media Type]=[Image] ~sort=[Date]) or ([Media Type]=[Audio] ~sort=[Random])
but that seems to sort the images in random order 2