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Title: Lise: Random Items in Panes
Post by: lise on December 16, 2010, 11:24:42 am

Here's a bug that's been there since at least 159

I have a "play 3 random albums" option in my pane (it's one of many searches in the pane).
Everything works when I select it. The list displays 3 random albums.
However, if I switch from Album Thumbnail view to List view or vice versa the smartlist is activated and I get 3 new albums.
That's an issue, of course, because if you discover that something is wrong with the tag (like you get 3 albums but 4 covers meaning the Album Artist tag is probably different for one of the albums) you can't then go into List View to fix the problem. 

Title: Re: Lise: Random Items in Panes
Post by: Matt on December 17, 2010, 04:32:03 pm

The behavior of using random-type queries in the panes is not tightly defined.

So for the search to be re-run and show new random albums is expected in some cases, like when refreshing, changing list style, etc.

It would be better to tighten the internal behavior up to something we could clearly delineate, but it's a more complex request than you might expect.

For now, this is just the way it is.