INTERACT FORUM

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Lise: Random Items in Panes  (Read 712 times)

lise

  • MC Beta Team
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 942
Lise: Random Items in Panes
« 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. 
Logged
A wise man once said don't count your years, but make your years count. Or was it beers?

Matt

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 42028
  • Shoes gone again!
Re: Lise: Random Items in Panes
« Reply #1 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.
Logged
Matt Ashland, JRiver Media Center
Pages: [1]   Go Up