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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: margolbe on April 21, 2015, 11:52:08 am
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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?
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Limit to track #1.
Shuffle.
Expand to albums.
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Matt;
How do you expand this to albums. Will this maintain the integrity of each album in the randomization?
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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.
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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?
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See if this works for you (be sure to fill in the Publisher field, I forgot)
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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?
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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?
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Try pasting this code into the Import/Export section of the Edit Smartlist dialog:
[Media Sub Type]=[Music] [Genre]="Jazz" [Track #]=1 ~sort=Random ~a
You can modify it later, but see if that works first.