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[Axilian]

Could I put in a request for a random selection button please. I have quite a varied selection of music in my Library and would love to be able to click a buttom that would selection a random album. A customizable one (i.e. able to select from a particular musical genre) would be even greater

As an example I use Calibre to control my ebook collection and using the random book selection button  in that software has led me to rediscovering so many books taht I would have never gone back to. I would love to be able to do this in MC

Actually thinking of Calibre another great addition (if it's possible)  would to be able to pull up biblographies /metadata of artists/albums from the internet (you can also do this in calibre and it adds greatly to the cataloging aspect of the program)

[DJLegba]

You can already sort any view randomly. I have a "Random Album" view and use it exactly as you describe. However, I agree that it would be useful to have a hotkey or control to randomize the currently-selected view, and in fact I made this request a little while ago:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,119060.msg823334.html#msg823334

So far it has garnered 0 responses.

[swiv3d]

Set up a smartlist which selects 1 track from an album from any selected genres and is then expanded to the full album for playback

Something like this:
[Media Type]=[Audio] [Genre]=[Adult Alternative Pop],[Alt Country],[Alternative Pop] ~limit=1,1,[album] ~a

Ok, it isn't a button but you only have to click the smartlist to play it, or you could add it as a car radio button.

[Matt]

And coming in MC25 we'll have this:
NEW: Added the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X to randomly select a single item in a list.

[Axilian]

Thanks

Swiv3d - Just tried what you suggested  - Once got my head around smartlists it worked perfectly and now flagged as a favorite on my MC toolbar - thank you